Bandwidth

The range of frequencies within which transmission equipment (such as electric cable or fibre-optic waveguide) can transmit data.

Battery-backed RAM

The probe’s memory that contains a copy of the probe configuration. If power is removed from the probe (either by unplugging the power cord or from a power outage), this memory is preserved by power provided by the probe's internal battery.

BIP-8

Bit Interleaved Parity 8 bits wide

Bit Interleaved Parity (BIP)

Bit Interleaved Parity (BIP) is a data integrity checking method. If even parity is used, an N-bit code is generated by the transmitting equipment over a specified portion of the signal in such a manner that the first bit of the code provides even parity over the first bit of all N-bit sequences in the covered portion of the signal, the second bit provides even parity over the second bit of all N-bit sequences and so on. Even parity is generated by setting the BIP-N bits so that there are an even number of 1s in each of the N-bit sequences including the BIP-N.

Bit Interleaved Parity 8 bits wide (BIP-8)

Bit Interleaved Parity 8 bits wide (BIP-8) provides for 8 separate even parity codes covering the corresponding bit of each octet.

Bit Rate

The speed at which bits are transmitted, usually expressed in bits per second (bps).

bps

Bits per second.

Bridge

A device providing an intelligent connection between two otherwise independent LANs. Bridges operate at layer 2 of the ISO OSI reference model. A bridge inspects every packet originating on either LAN and creates a table of nodes and

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