Glossary of Terms

Understand basic Public Safety definitions and terms.

Out-Of-Brand Signaling

Definition:

Any signaling method that uses frequencies that are not in the normal transmission frequency bands of the information
transmissions.

Channel

1) A voice‐grade transmission facility with defined frequency response, gain, and bandwidth. 2) A path of communication, either electrical or...

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Time Division

A method of serving a number of simultaneous channels over a common transmission path by assigning the transmission path sequentially to the various...

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Point-to-Point

A line or a transmission between two points that neither requires, nor transmits, an intermediate point.

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SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol. Used by SIGTRAN.

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