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Wireless Data Gateway
EIA
ETC
gateway channel
Group III
ITU-T
MNP 10
modem bank
modem pool
NI
NIM
NMS
off-hook
offline
on-hook
online
PBX
PCMCIA
PSTN
Glossary-2
Electronic Industries Association. This organization provides standards for the data
communications industry.
Enhanced Throughput Cellular. A Paradyne proprietary error correction protocol
for cellular communications.
A set of DS0s, voice ports, and modems that work together to process a single
back-to-back data call in the WDG. A gateway channel is active when the modems
in the channel are training or connected to modems, and idle all other times.
A fax standard that specifies a rate of transmission of about one page per minute.
The Telecommunications Standardization Sector of the International
Telecommunications Union, an advisory committee established by the United
Nations to recommend communications standards and policies. Before March 1993
it was called CCITT.
Microcom Networking Protocol 10. A Microcom proprietary error correction
protocol for cellular communications.
An organized array of dial modems, such as the modems loaded in an individual
carrier.
A number of modems grouped logically such that individual modems are accessible
according to availability by addressing the group.
Network Interface. The junction of the Wireless Data Gateway system with the
network switch.
Network Interface Module. The hardware interface between the WDG and the
network switch.
Network Management System. A set of diagnostic and configuration management
tools for a data communication network, consisting of software programs and
dedicated computer hardware.
The condition of a telephone or modem that is being used to establish or maintain
communication.
The condition of a modem that is not connected to another modem.
The condition of a telephone or modem that is not being used.
The condition of a modem that is connected to and communicating with another
modem.
Telephone switching equipment (Private Branch Exchange) dedicated to one
customer. A PBX connects private telephones to each other and to the public dial
network.
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. Standard used to
define the physical and operational characteristics of a "credit card" device.
Public Switched Telephone Network.
November 1996
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