Telecommunications terms starting with C

924 terms

  1. customer premises equipment (CPE) Terminal and associated equipment and inside wiring located at a subscriber's premises and connected with a carrier's communication channel(s) at the…
  2. customer premises wire The segment of wiring from the customer's side of the protector to the customer premises equipment. [47 CFR Pt.36-A]
  3. customer service unit (CSU) A device that provides an accessing arrangement at a user location to either switched or point-to-point, data-conditioned circuits at a specifically…
  4. customer-provided equipment Deprecated term. See customer premises equipment.
  5. Cut To divide a deck into two parts.
  6. cutback technique A destructive technique for determining certain optical fiber transmission characteristics, such as attenuation and bandwidth, by (a) performing the…
  7. cutoff attenuator A waveguide, of adjustable length, which varies the attenuation of signals passing through it.
  8. cutoff frequency The frequency either above which or below which the output of a circuit, such as a line, amplifier, or filter, is reduced to a specified level. 2.
  9. cutoff mode The highest order mode that will propagate in a given waveguide at a given frequency.
  10. cutoff wavelength The wavelength corresponding to the cutoff frequency. 2. In an uncabled single-mode optical fiber, the wavelength greater than which a particular…
  11. cutover The physical changing of circuits or lines from one configuration to another.
  12. CVSD Abbreviation for continuously variable slope delta modulation.
  13. CX Abbreviation for composite signaling.
  14. CX signaling Synonym composite signaling.
  15. cxr Abbreviation for carrier.
  16. cyber Loosely, a prefix referring to anything related to computers or networking. Note 1: For example, a "cyber cafe" is a coffee shop that offers computer…
  17. cyber security See information security.
  18. cybercommunity 1. The aggregate of participants in the use of a portion of cyberspace. 2. A special-interest group (SIG) of cyberspace participants.
  19. cybermall An electronic site shared by a number of commercial interests, and at which users can browse, shop, and place orders for the products listed at that site.
  20. cybernaut 1. One who uses the Internet. 2. Synonym Web surfer.
  21. Cyberspace An environment in which digitized information is distributed on networks of computers.
  22. Cybersquatting Registering domains related to other trademarks or brands in an attempt to cash in on the value created by said trademark or brand.
  23. cyclic distortion In telegraphy, distortion that (a) is periodic and (b) is not characteristic, not biased, and not fortuitous.
  24. cyclic redundancy check (CRC) An error-checking technique that helps ensure accurate transmission of digital data in a network.