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Any mark or symbol accepted by both parties to show intent, approval of, or responsibility for, a document. In e-business, for example, a “from” line on an e-mail, a mouse click of acceptance of terms, an e-mail closing, a biometric and electronic signatures of several types are accepted as signatures. Some laws specify a written signature to be legally acceptable. New laws give the same status to electronic signatures as written signatures.
Industry:Technology
Measurement of the quality of the wireless signal that is expressed as the ratio between the power of the transmitting signal and the noise that is present trying to corrupt that signal.
Industry:Technology
These are an NGN component, facilitating the crossing of a policy boundary or performing protocol conversion. NGN IP-STP products include products using protocols such as SIP, Session Initiation Protocol for Telephony (SIP-T), Parlay, Electronic Numbering (ENUM) and XML. SGs use SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols.
Industry:Technology
A frequency band on either the upper or lower side of the carrier frequency within which fall the frequencies produced by the process of modulation.
Industry:Technology
1. A term used to refer to packaged software applications (from the shrink-wrapped packaging typical of such products). 2. Term initially used to describe an unsigned software license agreement that is deemed accepted when the user breaks a shrink-wrapped seal or opens an enclosed sealed envelope in the package containing the software media, such as a floppy disk or CD. Use of the term has been expanded to refer to software license agreements that are accepted electronically. See click-wrapped.
Industry:Technology
A link-state protocol that uses a set of user-defined parameters to find the optimum route between two points.
Industry:Technology
Short message service (SMS) is a facility developed as part of the GSM standard that enables a mobile device to send, receive and display messages of up to 160 characters in Roman text and variations for non-Roman character sets. Messages received are stored in the network if the subscriber device is inactive and are relayed when it becomes active. SMS has become available increasingly in CDMA networks and in some fixed networks.
Industry:Technology
A system of computers and/or controllers tools used to schedule, dispatch and track the progress of work orders through manufacturing based on defined routings. SFCs typically calculate work in process based on a percentage of completion for each order and operation that are useful in inventory valuations and materials planning.
Industry:Technology
Continuous optimization of workers in a work center, which relies on multiskilled workers and optimized work center design.
Industry:Technology
In Gartner’s statistics for mobile network infrastructure, the additional equipment required to support an increase in traffic or coverage. Shipments are calculated by subtracting the current year’s installations from the following year’s installations.
Industry:Technology
