Appendix D Glossary
10baseT
Ethernet connector which implements the IEEE standard on
AIS
alarm indication signal. An unframed all ones pattern that replaces the normal traffic signal when a failure has been detected. This signal prevents logical con- nections from terminating between devices.
AMI
alternate mark inversion. A bipolar
ANSI
American National Standards Institute. A
asynchronous
A method of data transmission which allows characters to be sent at irregular intervals by preceding each character with a start bit, followed by a stop bit.
bandwidth
The bandwidth determines the rate at which information can be sent through a channel (the greater the bandwidth, the more information that can be sent in a given amount of time).
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