HP auroraTempo User Manual page 268

aurora Tempo - User Guide
Companding technique used in Europe.
A-law
Alternate Mark Inversion - this is a line code type.
AMI
American National Standards Institute. This is the national
ANSI
standards making body in the US.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
ASCII
Bipolar 8 Zero Suppression - this is a line code type.
B8ZS
The ISDN Bearer channel.
B Channel
The range of frequencies a channel or line can carry. For a
Bandwidth
digital channel this is defined in bits. The greater the
bandwidth, the greater the information-carrying capacity of
the channel.
Type of ISDN circuit typically used for subscriber circuits. It
Basic Rate
consists of two B channels and one D channel = 144 Kbps of
bidirectional user communications.
The number of line signal transitions per second - in other
Baud Rate
words, the rate at which data is transmitted over the serial
port.
Please refer to Committed Burst Size.
Bc
Please refer to Excess Burst Size.
Be
Backwards Explicit Congestion Notification. A bit in the
BECN
Frame Relay Header which tells the source device of
congestion in the network.
Bit Error Ratio - the ratio of errored bits to the total of bits
BER
transmitted across a channel.
A4-2
Appendix 4 - Glossary
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