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Equipment used in high speed data systems, including ATM, that generate and transmit  | |
Interference (EMI) | many signals in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Interference  | 
  | to other equipment or radio services may result if sufficient power from these signals  | 
  | escape the equipment enclosures or transmission media. National and international  | 
  | regulatory agencies (FCC, CISPR, etc.) set limits for these emissions. Class A is for  | 
  | industrial use and Class B is for residential use.  | 
Ethernet | Ethernet is a particular network topology and protocol, especially useful in LANs. It comes  | 
  | in various speeds and is often regarded as THE current technology for general network  | 
  | direct connection. The current connectivity is generally considered to be   | 
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Facilities Data Link  | FDL supports the communication of various network information in the form of   | 
(FDL) | monitoring and diagnostics.  | 
filter | An operating parameter used with routers that can be set to block the transfer of packets  | 
  | from one LAN to another.  | 
firewall | Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access  | 
  | to a computer network and/or may monitor the transfer of information to and from the  | 
  | network.  | 
frame | A fragment of data that is packaged into a frame format, which comprises a header,  | 
  | payload, and trailer.  | 
Frame Reject (FRMR) | The FRMR response frame is sent to report the receiver of a frame cannot successfully  | 
  | process that frame and that the error condition is not correctable by sending the offending  | 
  | frame again.  | 
Foreign Exchange | A Central Office trunk which has access to a distant central office. Dial Tone is returned  | 
  | from that distant Central Office, and a location can be reached in the area of the foreign  | 
  | Central Office by dialing a local number. This will provide easier access for customers in  | 
  | that area and calls may be made anywhere in the foreign exchange area for a flat rate.  | 
Foreign Exchange  | Foreign exchange (FX) service is a service that can be ordered from the telephone company  | 
Service | that provides local telephone service from a central office which is outside (foreign to) the  | 
  | subscriber’s exchange area. Simply, a user can pick up the phone in one city and receive a  | 
  | dial tone in the foreign city. This kind of connection is provided by a type of trunk called  | 
  | foreign exchange (FX) trunk. FX trunk signaling can be provided over analog or   | 
  | Connecting POTS telephones to a computer telephony system via   | 
  | channel bank configured with FX type connections.  | 
G.711 | |
  | law PCM voice at digital bit rates of 48, 56, and 64 Kbps. It is used for digital telephone  | 
  | sets on digital PBX and ISDN channels.  | 
G.729 | International Telecommunications Union’s standard voice algorithm   | 
  | algorithm for the coding of encoding/decoding of speech at 8 Kbps using conjugate-  | 
  | structure,   | 
  | standard in its   | 
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