Glossary
FCC | Federal Communications Commission. Board of Commissioners that regulates all U.S. |
| interstate, intrastate, and foreign electrical communication systems that originate from the |
| United States. |
FEBE | Far End Bit Error. Number of errors reported by the remote equipment. |
HDB3 | High Density Bipolar 3 coding format. |
HDSL | |
| over copper wire for both T1 and E1 services. |
HTU | Host Termination Unit. A generic reference to either an |
| Host Termination Unit ± Central. The module at the CO (central office) or central site end |
| of an HDSL connection. Also known as a Network Termination Unit (NTU). |
| Host Termination Unit ± Maintenance. A carrier±mounted module used to perform |
| maintenance operations on one or more |
| Host Termination Unit ± Remote. The module at the CP (customer premises) end of an |
| HDSL connection. Also known as a Line Termination Unit (LTU). |
LED | Light Emitting Diode. A status indicator that responds to the presence of a certain |
| conditions. |
loopback | Used to test various portions of a data link in order to isolate an equipment or data line |
| problem. A diagnostic procedure that sends a test message back to its origination point. |
MOS | Multiframes Out of Sync. A performance statistic that counts the number of multiframes |
| received out of sync. |
OOF | Out Of Frame. An error condition in which frame synchronization bits are in error. A |
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reset | A reinitialization of the device that occurs at |
RTS | Request to Send. An |
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RXD | Received Data. An |
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T1 | A data signaling rate common in the United States. A term for a digital carrier facility used |
| to transmit a DS1 formatted signal of 1.544 Mbps. |
TXD | Transmit Data. An |
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V.35 |
| October 1997 |