Lucent Technologies LambdaUnite Installation Manual page 322

Broadband Communications
Voice, data, and/or video communications at greater than 2 Mbit/s rates.
Broadband Service Transport
STM-1 concatenation transport over the LambdaUnite
Byte
Refers to a group of eight consecutive binary digits.
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C C
Container
CAT5
Category 5 cable
CC
Cross Connect
CE
The CE marking indicates that the products conform to relevant European Community (EC)
Directives
Cell Relay
Fixed-length cells. For example, ATM with 53 octets.
CEPT
Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications
Channel
A sub-unit of transmission capacity within a defined higher level of transmission capacity.
CI-CTL
Customer Interface of the Controller
Circuit
A set of transmission channels through one or more network elements that provides transmission
of signals between two points, to support a single communications path.
CIT or LambdaUnite CIT (Craft Interface Terminal)
The user interface terminal used by craft personnel to communicate with a network element.
CL
Clear
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