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A digital subscriber line (DSL) technology that operates over voice-grade lines at 1.5 megabits per second one way, or 768 kilobits per second both ways, over an 8,000-foot distance.
Industry:Technology
A mobile OS originally derived from Psion’s EPOC. Up until 2009 Symbian was developed by an independent company jointly owned by Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens and Samsung, which licensed the platform to mobile handset manufacturers. In 2009 Nokia bought out the other owners and converted Symbian into an open source foundation. From 2010, Symbian will be run as an open source project managed by the Symbian Foundation, the governing body for open source Symbian.
Industry:Technology
When a failure occurs in the equipment, a switch to an alternative component can occur. Also called failover.
Industry:Technology
A location that terminates multiple circuits and is capable of interconnecting circuits or transferring traffic between circuits.
Industry:Technology
The establishment of a transmission path from a particular inlet to a particular outlet, within a group of such inlets and outlets.
Industry:Technology
A telephone network consisting of terminals, transmission links, and at least one exchange, on which any user can communicate with any other user at any time.
Industry:Technology
A multipoint communications pathway with circuit-switching capabilities, e.g., the telephone network.
Industry:Technology
One of a series of lines that can be interconnected through a switching center; a line on the public telephone network.
Industry:Technology
Switch-based virtualization is an out-of-band approach to storage virtualization that capitalizes on processors behind Fibre Channel switch ports to eliminate most storage network block virtualization performance and scalability issues by splitting the control path (slow path) from the data path (fast path).
Industry:Technology
An imaging application and language written in XML, supported by key electronic publishing vendors. The SVG interface offers a solution to the problem of sharing many sophisticated, Web-based images. Vector graphics are more compact than bitmapped images and can potentially be altered by client devices to best suit display parameters.
Industry:Technology
