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T-1
T-1 is the North American standard digital interface for high capacity transmission of telephony and data communications. T-1
transmits at 1.544 Mbps and features twenty-four voice channels.
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
Part of the TCP/IP networking protocol, TCP is a transport protocol that verifies correct data delivery between two systems. TCP
detects errors, or lost data, and triggers retransmission until the destination receives the correct data.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
TCP/IP is a networking protocol that provides communication across interconnected networks, between computers with diverse
hardware architectures, and between various operating systems.
U
UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
UDP is a transport protocol within TCP/IP that is utilized when TCP is not required. For example, UDP is used in real time voice
and video, where lost packets are ignored because there is no time to retransmit them.
V
Voice compression
Voice compression is the technology of encoding digital speech to take up less storage space for transmission.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
VoIP refers to the two-way transmission of audio over a packet-switched IP network. (Please see page 31 for an overview of
VoIP).
W
WAN (Wide Area Network)
A WAN is a communications network that covers a wide geographic area, such as a state or a country.
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