Multi-Tech Systems MTASR1-100 manual

RouteFinder MTASR1-100 User Guide

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Wide Area Network (WAN): 1. A network that provides communication services to a geographic area larger than that served by a local area network or a metropolitan area network, and that may use or provide public communication facilities.

2.A data communications network designed to serve an area of hundreds or thousands of miles; for example, public and private packet-switching networks, and national telephone networks. Contrast with local area network (LAN).

Wide Area Telecommunications Service (WATS): A low-cost toll service offered by most long distance and local phone companies. Incoming (800 call service, or IN-WATS) and outgoing WATS are subscribed to separately, but over the same line.

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X.25: ITU-T’s definition of a three-level packet-switching protocol to be used between packet-mode DTEs and network DCEs. X.25 corresponds with layer 3 of the 7-layer OSI model.

Y

Yellow Alarm: An error indication sent by the T1 device when it has not gotten a receive signal, or cannot synchronize on the receive signal received. Contrast “Red Alarm” and “Blue Alarm”.

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Zero Byte Time Slot Interchange (ZBTSI): A method for allowing 64K bps unrestricted user data (allowing all 0s in the user data). An alternative to (but not as popular as) B8ZS.

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