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<h2>E</h2>

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<h3>E</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0160#id0160" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See erlang</a></p>
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<h3>E</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016423#id016423" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extension header flag</a></p>
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<h3>E 1</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08662#id08662" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E1</a></p>
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<h3>E bit</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011316#id011316" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See encryption function bit</a></p>
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<h3>E interface</h3>

<p>interface between mobile services switching centres</p>
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<h3>E parameter; <em>e parameter</em></h3>

<p>set of parameters (e1-e7) containing the elements which together define the rate at which the call is to be charged (for advice of charge purposes)</p>
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<h3>e parameter</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09088#id09088" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E parameter</a></p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signaling /US/</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id03262#id03262" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E&amp;M signalling</a></p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signaling multiplexer /US/</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0135#id0135" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E&amp;M signalling unit</a></p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signaling unit /US/</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0135#id0135" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E&amp;M signalling unit</a></p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signalling; <em>E&amp;M signaling /US/</em></h3>

<p>method of signalling between junction equipment in an exchange and a signalling unit associated with the transmission equipment using two leads - a receive (E) lead and a transmit (M) lead</p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signalling channel</h3>

<p>signalling channel for transferring E&amp;M signalling information</p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signalling multiplexer</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0135#id0135" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E&amp;M signalling unit</a></p>
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<h3>E&amp;M signalling unit; <em>E&amp;M signalling multiplexer</em>; <em>E&amp;M signaling unit /US/</em>; <em>E&amp;M signaling multiplexer /US/</em></h3>

<p>device for converting the signalling used in FDM equipment and transmitted via a separate signalling channel into signals of the signalling time slot of the PCM frame according to the standardised multiframe structure</p>
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<h3>e-auction</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012542#id012542" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electronic auction</a></p>
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<h3>e-business; <em>electronic business</em></h3>

<p>way of conducting business operations by using data networks, usually by using Internet-based applications</p>
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<h3>E-channel</h3>

<p>channel primarily used to carry signalling information for circuit switching by the ISDN</p>
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<h3>e-commerce; <em>electronic commerce</em>; <em>EC</em></h3>

<p>part of e-business that deals with buying and selling products and services, including electronic transactions</p>
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<h3>e-community; <em>electronic community</em></h3>

<p>network of people collaborating and sharing ideas over an electronic network</p>
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<h3>e-form</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010661#id010661" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electronic form</a></p>
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<h3>e-mail folder</h3>

<p>storage of e-mail messages of the user</p>
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<h3>e-mail server; <em>mail server</em></h3>

<p>server which is used to store and forward e-mail</p>
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<h3>e-mail smart push; <em>email smart push</em>; <em>ESP</em></h3>

<p>service of the application gateway that allows subscribers with multimedia phones to send and receive multimedia messages (MM) to and from the Internet by performing both inbound (e-mail to MS) and outbound (MS to e-mail) conversions</p>
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<h3>e-mail smart push subscriber; <em>email smart push subscriber</em></h3>

<p>subscriber who has a multimedia phone and has subscribed to e-mail smart push</p>
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<h3>e-mall; <em>electronic mall</em>; <em>electronic shopping centre</em></h3>

<p>virtual collection of e-shops usually enhanced by a common umbrella, for example, a well-known brand or a special theme</p>
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<h3>e-marketing; <em>electronic marketing</em></h3>

<p>part of e-business that deals with marketing activities</p>
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<h3>e-marketplace; <em>web marketplace</em></h3>

<p>online electronic trading location, which is facilitated by one or several market makers, and where buyers and sellers meet</p>
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<h3>E-OTD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010418#id010418" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced observed time difference</a></p>
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<h3>E-PM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014984#id014984" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-project management</a></p>
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<h3>e-project management; <em>E-PM</em></h3>

<p>part of e-business that deals with managing the e-business project tasks online in collaboration with project stakeholders</p>
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<h3>e-shop; <em>e-store</em>; <em>web shop</em>; <em>web store</em></h3>

<p>e-marketplace used to promote a company and to sell its products and/or services</p>
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<h3>e-store</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012531#id012531" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-shop</a></p>
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<h3>e-tailing</h3>

<p>online retail selling</p>
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<h3>E.164</h3>

<p>public network addressing standard utilizing up to a maximum of 15 digits</p>
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<h3>E/O converter</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06297#id06297" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electrical-to-optical converter</a></p>
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<h3>E/O transducer</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06297#id06297" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electrical-to-optical converter</a></p>
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<h3>E1; <em>E1 system</em>; <em>European Digital Signal 1</em>; <em>CEPT1</em></h3>

<p>European PCM system that carries 32 channels in a 256-bit frame transmitted at 2.048 Mbit/s basic multiplex rate</p>
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<h3>E1 system</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08662#id08662" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E1</a></p>
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<h3>E3; <em>CEPT3</em></h3>

<p>34.368 Mbit/s rate used by the European CEPT carrier to transmit 16 E1s plus overhead</p>
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<h3>EA</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id01173#id01173" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external alarm</a></p>
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<h3>EA</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014013#id014013" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external application</a></p>
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<h3>EAP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019424#id019424" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extensible authentication protocol</a></p>
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<h3>early call forwarding</h3>

<p>call forwarding before the call has been extended to the visited network (VPLMN) of the forwarding subscriber</p>
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<h3>early media</h3>

<p>establishment mode of a PoC session, in which the session initiator is given a "ready to speak" indication when the PoC server has authorised the set-up, but the target terminal has not yet been paged</p>
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<h3>early packet discard; <em>EPD</em></h3>

<p>mechanism used by some ATM switches for discarding a complete AAL5 frame when a threshold condition, such as imminent congestion, is met</p>
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<h3>earth fault /GB/; <em>ground fault /US/</em></h3>

<p>fault caused by a conductor being connected to ground or by the insulation resistance to ground being below the specific value</p>
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<h3>EB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06622#id06622" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See errored block</a></p>
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<h3>Eb/I0</h3>

<p>ratio of signal energy per bit to interference and noise density</p>
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<h3>Eb/N0; <em>energy per bit-to-noise density ratio</em>; <em>energy per bit-to-noise power spectral density ratio</em></h3>

<p>ratio in decibels (dB) of the energy of each information bit to the noise power spectral density</p>
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<h3>Eb/Nt</h3>

<p>narrowband signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) (bit energy to narrowband noise ratio)</p>
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<h3>EBER</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016111#id016111" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See excessive bit error rate</a></p>
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<h3>EBH</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020444#id020444" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external balance holder</a></p>
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<h3>EBSG</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011032#id011032" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See elementary basic service group</a></p>
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<h3>eBusiness</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010339#id010339" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-business</a></p>
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<h3>EC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015121#id015121" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event consumer</a></p>
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<h3>EC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02544#id02544" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo canceller</a></p>
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<h3>EC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010340#id010340" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-commerce</a></p>
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<h3>Ec/I0</h3>

<p>ratio in decibels (dB) of the pilot energy accumulated over one PN chip period (Ec) to the total power spectral density in the received bandwidth (I0)</p>
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<h3>Ec/No</h3>

<p>ratio of energy per modulating bit to the noise spectral density</p>
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<h3>ECB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013399#id013399" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electronic code book</a></p>
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<h3>ECC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017143#id017143" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error checking and correction</a></p>
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<h3>ECC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02579#id02579" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error-correcting code</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05400#id05400" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See embedded control channel</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECCS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015882#id015882" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See ECCS circuit group</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECCS CGR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015882#id015882" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See ECCS circuit group</a></p>
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<h3>ECCS circuit group; <em>ECCS</em>; <em>ECCS CGR</em></h3>

<p>common channel circuit group which consists of the termination IDs of the media gateway</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECFH</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011287#id011287" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced coverage by frequency hopping</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo cancellation</h3>

<p>transmission method used in digital transmission systems in which bi-directional transmission occurs simultaneously on the same line and in the same frequency band</p>
</div>


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<h3>echo canceller; <em>EC</em></h3>

<p>voice operated device placed in the 4-wire portion of a circuit and used for reducing near-end echo present on the send path by subtracting an estimation of that echo from the near-end echo</p>
</div>


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<h3>echo check; <em>echo checking</em>; <em>echoing</em></h3>

<p>method of checking the accuracy of transmission of data by sending the received data back to the sending end for comparison with the original data</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo checking</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02409#id02409" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo check</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo control device indicator</h3>

<p>indicator showing whether or not an echo control device is included in the connection</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo control procedure</h3>

<p>procedure which is used on a per call basis to convey information between exchange nodes about demand and ability to insert echo control devices</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo loss</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05170#id05170" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo return loss</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo path</h3>

<p>transmission path between the receive-out port and send-in port of an echo canceller</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo path capacity</h3>

<p>maximum echo path delay for which an echo canceller is designed to operate</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo path delay</h3>

<p>delay due to the delays inherent in the echo path transmission facilities</p>
</div>


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<h3>echo request; <em>echo request message</em></h3>

<p>message sent on a path to another GPRS support node (GSN) or radio network controller (RNC) to find out if the peer GSN or RNC is alive</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo request message</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015761#id015761" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo request</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo response; <em>echo response message</em></h3>

<p>message sent as a response to a received echo request</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo response message</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015762#id015762" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo response</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo return loss; <em>echo loss</em>; <em>ERL</em></h3>

<p>attenuation of a signal on an echo path due to transmission and hybrid loss</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echo return loss enhancement; <em>ERLE</em></h3>

<p>attenuation of the echo signal as it passes through the send path of an echo canceller</p>
</div>


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<h3>echo suppressor</h3>

<p>voice-operated device placed in the 4-wire portion of a circuit and used for inserting loss in the transmission path to suppress echo. The path in which the device operates may be an individual circuit path or a path carrying a multiplexed signal</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>echoing</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02409#id02409" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo check</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECL</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05233#id05233" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See environment control list</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012059#id012059" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event counter measurement</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECN</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015124#id015124" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See explicit congestion notification</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECO</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015464#id015464" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency call origin</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>eCommerce</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010340#id010340" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-commerce</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02159#id02159" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency service</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECSD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010414#id010414" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced circuit switched data</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ECT</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010362#id010362" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See explicit call transfer</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ED</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04736#id04736" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See expedited data</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDAC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017143#id017143" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error checking and correction</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDAP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018267#id018267" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EGPRS dynamic Abis pool</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02580#id02580" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error-detecting code</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDGE; <em>enhanced data rates for global evolution</em>; <em>enhanced data rates for GSM evolution</em></h3>

<p>radio interface modulation technique which increases HSCSD (high speed circuit switched data) and GPRS (general packet radio service) data rates</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>edge device</h3>

<p>physical device that forwards packets between legacy interworking interfaces and ATM interfaces</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>edge router</h3>

<p>router in an IP network, which carries out tasks that relate to encryption, authentication, and service selection</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>editorial revision</h3>

<p>number of a particular editorial revision milestone for the edition</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05692#id05692" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event detection point</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDP-N</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012088#id012088" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event detection point notification</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDP-N service</h3>

<p>service of an event detection point, which the IN service logic has specified as an event detection point notification (EDP-N), when the call processing is suspended at this specified point</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDP-R</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012089#id012089" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event detection point request</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EDP-R service</h3>

<p>service of an event detection point, which the IN service logic has specified as an event detection point request (EDP-R), when the call processing is suspended at this specified point</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EEFL</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09850#id09850" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external event forwarder and log</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015123#id015123" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See expedited forwarding PHB</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5458" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09852#id09852" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event forwarder</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EF address</h3>

<p>address of an ISDN subscriber in a V5 interface</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EFCI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08664#id08664" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See explicit forward congestion indication</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5461" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EFD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07919#id07919" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event forwarding discriminator</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>effective capacity</h3>

<p>actual data transfer capacity which is available for users and applications</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>effective isotropic radiated power; <em>equivalent isotropic radiated power</em>; <em>EIRP</em></h3>

<p>transmitted power multiplied by the antenna gain referenced to an ideal isotropic radiator</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>effective radiated power; <em>equivalent radiated power</em>; <em>ERP</em></h3>

<p>transmitted power multiplied by the antenna gain referenced to a half-wave dipole</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5465" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EFR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010850#id010850" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced full rate</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5466" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EFR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09091#id09091" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced full rate speech codec</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EFS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05985#id05985" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error-free second</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EGP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010420#id010420" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See exterior gateway protocol</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5469" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EGPRS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010416#id010416" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced general packet radio service</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EGPRS dynamic Abis pool; <em>EDAP</em></h3>

<p>pool between the base transceiver station (BTS) and base station controller (BSC) that is dynamically allocated in 16 kbit/s blocks for EDGE datacalls</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EGPRS packet channel request; <em>EPCR</em></h3>

<p>message which an enhanced general packet radio service (EGPRS) capable mobile terminal sends to perform an EGPRS one-phase access request, EGPRS short access request, or EGPRS two-phase access request</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>egress</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09711#id09711" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See egress direction</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>egress direction; <em>egress</em></h3>

<p>traffic direction out of a network element</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EIR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05058#id05058" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See equipment identity register</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5475" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EIRP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013657#id013657" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See effective isotropic radiated power</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EJB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012170#id012170" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Enterprise Java Beans</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EJB container</h3>

<p>container that implements the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) component contract of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ELB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015113#id015113" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-to-end loopback</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electric echo</h3>

<p>echo which consists of reflected signals caused by the near-end impedance mismatch at a 2-to-4-wire conversion unit (hybrid)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electric number</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015956#id015956" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See network number</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electrical PDH physical interface; <em>EPPI</em></h3>

<p>function which converts an electrical PDH interface signal into an internal-logic-level PDH signal and vice versa</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electrical SDH physical interface; <em>ESPI</em></h3>

<p>function which converts an internal-logic-level STM-N signal into an electrical STM-N interface signal and vice versa</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electrical-to optical transducer</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06297#id06297" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electrical-to-optical converter</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electrical-to-optical converter; <em>E/O converter</em>; <em>electrical-to optical transducer</em>; <em>E/O transducer</em></h3>

<p>device in which a modulated electrical signal is converted into an optical signal having the original modulation information content</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electromagnetic compatibility; <em>EMC</em></h3>

<p>ability of equipment or a system to function satisfactorily in its electromagnetic environment without introducing intolerable electromagnetic disturbances to anything in that environment</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electromagnetic disturbance</h3>

<p>electromagnetic phenomenon which may degrade the performance of a device, equipment or system, or adversely affect living or inert matter</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electromagnetic emission</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06981#id06981" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emission</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electromagnetic field; <em>EMF</em></h3>

<p>physical field determined by the set of four vectors which characterize the electric and magnetic states of a material or vacuum</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electromagnetic interference; <em>EMI</em></h3>

<p>degradation of the performance of an equipment, transmission channel or system caused by an electromagnetic disturbance</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electromagnetic radiation</h3>

<p>phenomenon by which energy in the form of electromagnetic waves emanates from a source into space</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic auction; <em>e-auction</em>; <em>online auction</em></h3>

<p>auction organised using an electronic implementation of bidding mechanisms also known from traditional auctions</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5492" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic business</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010339#id010339" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-business</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic code book; <em>ECB</em></h3>

<p>basic block cipher mode in which each plaintext block is encrypted independently and one block of ciphertext is produced out of one block of plaintext</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5494" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic commerce</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010340#id010340" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-commerce</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5495" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic community</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014941#id014941" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-community</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic exchange</h3>

<p>exchange system in which both the control equipment and switching network are composed of electronic components</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic form; <em>e-form</em></h3>

<p>online document that contains blank spaces for a user to fill in with requested information and that can be submitted through a network</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic magazine; <em>electronic newspaper</em></h3>

<p>publication regularly edited for the information network containing typical press material</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic mall</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012543#id012543" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-mall</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5500" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic marketing</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012544#id012544" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-marketing</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5501" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic newspaper</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010662#id010662" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electronic magazine</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic numbering; <em>ENUM</em></h3>

<p>distributed directory system which is based on the domain name service (DNS), providing the MMS Center directory information</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>electronic shopping centre</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012543#id012543" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-mall</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5504" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015815#id015815" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XML element</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element configuration</h3>

<p>configuration data which is written in the ICD service directory (ISD) by the network elements</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element declaration</h3>

<p>markup declaration that contains the formal specification of the part of an element type definition that deals with the content and markup minimisation</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element management; <em>EM</em></h3>

<p>network management at the level of an individual network element</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5508" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element management client</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019329#id019329" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager client</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element management framework; <em>EMF</em></h3>

<p>framework that provides a set of application programming interfaces (API), system interfaces, component technology and data management for element management systems</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element management functions</h3>

<p>set of functions for the management of network elements on an individual basis</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element management interface; <em>element manager interface</em>; <em>EMI</em></h3>

<p>interface for a web-based network management system, used for communication between a network element and management application</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element management layer; <em>EML</em></h3>

<p>management layer which manages each network element on an individual basis and supports an abstraction of the functions provided by the NE layer</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5513" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element management platform</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09851#id09851" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager platform</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id018379" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element management system; <em>EMS</em></h3>

<p>part of the network management system that provides the management functions for a set of network elements</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element management user interface; <em>EM UI</em></h3>

<p>graphical user interface (GUI) for managing the configuration of a network element</p>
</div>


<a name="id08548" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager; <em>EM</em></h3>

<p>basic tool for installation and operational purposes, used to control and monitor one network element</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5517" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager action log</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015558#id015558" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EM action log</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager application; <em>EM application</em></h3>

<p>application supporting management tasks performed in a specific network element (NE)</p>
</div>


<a name="id019329" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager client; <em>element management client</em>; <em>EMC</em></h3>

<p>entity that uses the element manager's services</p>
</div>


<a name="id019346" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager client user; <em>EMC user</em></h3>

<p>user who uses the element management interface to connect to the push to talk over cellular (PoC) system for performing operation and maintenance tasks</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager domain</h3>

<p>architectural entity of the FlexiServer platform software that implements the user interface of FlexiServer-based products</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5522" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager interface</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012138#id012138" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management interface</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id09851" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager platform; <em>element management platform</em>; <em>EMP</em></h3>

<p>function which provides a framework for building local network element management interface</p>
</div>


<a name="id020845" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element manager tool</h3>

<p>part of an element manager that is meant to manage one particular aspect of a network element</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5525" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>element object</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015815#id015815" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XML element</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id011032" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary basic service group; <em>EBSG</em></h3>

<p>basic service group used in the subscriber data transfer</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary cable section</h3>

<p>whole of the physical transmission medium between the section termination at the output of one piece of equipment and the section termination at the input of the following piece of equipment</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary diagnosis</h3>

<p>part of a diagnostic program which tests a certain hardware function or searches for certain fault types</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary file</h3>

<p>file containing access conditions and data and no other files</p>
</div>


<a name="id014797" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary procedure; <em>EP</em></h3>

<p>radio access network application part (RANAP) signalling procedure that supports the functions of the Iu interface, consisting of an initiating message, and possibly a response message</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary regenerator section; <em>regenerator section</em></h3>

<p>in a given direction of transmission, an elementary cable section together with the immediately following regenerative repeater</p>
</div>


<a name="id06243" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>elementary repeater section</h3>

<p>in a given direction of transmission, an elementary cable section together with the immediately following analogue repeater</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5533" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>ELF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013403#id013403" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See executable and linking format</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>elliptical waveguide</h3>

<p>waveguide which has an elliptical cross section and a corrugated wall giving it good flexibility</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5535" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020891#id020891" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5536" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08548#id08548" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id015558" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM action log; <em>element manager action log</em></h3>

<p>log file in the Network Element Management Unit (NEMU) that can be used to read and write information related to operation, security and error events</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5538" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM application</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014561#id014561" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager application</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5539" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM UI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020893#id020893" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management user interface</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5540" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM UI client</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015575#id015575" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EM user interface client</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5541" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM user authority manager</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id021230#id021230" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See user authority manager</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id015575" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EM user interface client; <em>EM UI client</em></h3>

<p>element manager (EM) application that is used to view the contents of the EM action log, and to set the filtering properties for writing to the operation log</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5543" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EMA</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016211#id016211" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external monitoring application</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5544" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>email smart push</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018592#id018592" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-mail smart push</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5545" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>email smart push subscriber</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018593#id018593" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-mail smart push subscriber</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5546" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EMB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020233#id020233" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Ethernet-based message bus</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMB LAN</h3>

<p>local area network (LAN) used in an Ethernet-based message bus (EMB)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>embedded adaptive differential pulse code modulation; <em>embedded ADPCM</em></h3>

<p>embedded ADPCM algorithms are ADPCM algorithms that quantise the difference between the input and the estimated signal into core bits and enhancement bits</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5549" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>embedded ADPCM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07480#id07480" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See embedded adaptive differential pulse code modulation</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5550" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>embedded computer system</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020974#id020974" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See embedded system</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id05400" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>embedded control channel; <em>ECC</em></h3>

<p>channel using a data communications channel as the physical layer for communication between SDH network elements</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5552" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>embedded data communication channel</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05453#id05453" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See embedded operations channel</a></p>
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<h3>embedded operations channel; <em>embedded data communication channel</em>; <em>EOC</em></h3>

<p>channel which is provided as an integral part of a communications facility for the purpose of carrying operations messages</p>
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<h3>embedded software</h3>

<p>software which forms a component of some larger system and which is expected to function without human intervention</p>
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<h3>embedded system; <em>embedded computer system</em></h3>

<p>computer system which is integral to a larger system whose primary purpose is not computational</p>
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<h3>embedded web services interface component; <em>EWSIC</em></h3>

<p>Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) compliant web services interface component for network servers</p>
</div>


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<h3>Embedded Workshop; <em>EWS</em></h3>

<p>ChorusOS operating system and integrated development environment for creating applications that run on ChorusOS or embedded systems based on ChorusOS</p>
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<h3>EMC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019329#id019329" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager client</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05254#id05254" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electromagnetic compatibility</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMC user</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019346#id019346" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager client user</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>emerg. call</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04270#id04270" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency call</a></p>
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<h3>emergency action</h3>

<p>modified action or procedure to be used when normal activity cannot re-establish the handling of traffic</p>
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<h3>emergency call; <em>emerg. call</em></h3>

<p>call which is initiated by dialling a special emergency number</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency call indicator</h3>

<p>signalling object which indicates that the terminations and bearer connections in the specified context are associated with an emergency call</p>
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<h3>emergency call origin; <em>ECO</em></h3>

<p>number given in subscriber information, that tells in which emergency area the subscriber belongs in his own MSC area</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency call service</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02159#id02159" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency service</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency call/positioning of caller</h3>

<p>feature which is used to handle the emergency services within an All-IP core network via the call processing server</p>
</div>


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<h3>emergency changeover</h3>

<p>modified changeover procedure to be used whenever the normal one cannot be accomplished, that is, in case of some failures in the signalling terminal equipment or in case of inaccessibility between the two involved signalling points</p>
</div>


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<h3>emergency service; <em>emergency call service</em>; <em>ECS</em></h3>

<p>special services for emergency purposes, for example, fire alarm, police, or first aid</p>
</div>


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<h3>emergency services message entity; <em>ESME</em></h3>

<p>entity in the emergency services network which serves as the point of reference to a mobile services switching centre (MSC) for common channel emergency services messaging</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency services network entity; <em>ESNE</em></h3>

<p>entity in the emergency services network which serves as the point of interface to an MSC for a voice or telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or teletypewriter (TTY) services</p>
</div>


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<h3>emergency services routing digits; <em>ESRD</em></h3>

<p>string of digits which uniquely identifies a specific base station, cell site, or sector in an emergency call</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency services routing key; <em>ESRK</em></h3>

<p>string of digits that uniquely identifies an ongoing emergency call</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency traffic origin</h3>

<p>parameter in the subscriber data, the analysis of which leads to a separate emergency traffic tree</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>emergency traffic origins</h3>

<p>feature which enables the operator to divide local or Remote Subscriber Stage (RSS) subscribers of one exchange to 31 different categories</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013658#id013658" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electromagnetic field</a></p>
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<h3>EMF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014560#id014560" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management framework</a></p>
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<h3>EMI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012138#id012138" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management interface</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016718#id016718" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external machine interface</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06214#id06214" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electromagnetic interference</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMIF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020164#id020164" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external memory interface</a></p>
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<h3>emission; <em>electromagnetic emission</em></h3>

<p>phenomenon by which electromagnetic energy emanates from a source</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EML</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013840#id013840" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management layer</a></p>
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<h3>emoticon</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010699#id010699" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See smiley</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09851#id09851" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element manager platform</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015472#id015472" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced messaging</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018379#id018379" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See element management system</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMT</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09853#id09853" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external message transfer</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EMT connection</h3>

<p>connection in which the external message transfer (EMT) protocol is used to transfer DMX messages between two network elements</p>
</div>


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<h3>emulate</h3>

<p>to imitate a computer system by a combination of hardware and software that allows programs written for one computer to be run on another</p>
</div>


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<h3>emulation</h3>

<p>the ability of a device or program to mimic another, corresponding function</p>
</div>


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<h3>emulator</h3>

<p>special purpose hardware or software which enables one machine to act as if it were another</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>enabler</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018223#id018223" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See software enabler</a></p>
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<h3>enabler</h3>

<p>entity that provides certain functions to simplify the development of applications</p>
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<h3>ENC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09095#id09095" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EventNotificationCharging</a></p>
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<h3>encapsulating security payload; <em>IP encapsulating security payload</em>; <em>ESP</em></h3>

<p>header that provides integrity and confidentiality for IP datagrams by encrypting and encapsulating the payload data to be protected</p>
</div>


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<h3>encapsulation</h3>

<p>act of enclosing a data unit of one protocol into a data unit of another protocol</p>
</div>


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<h3>encapsulation</h3>

<p>SGSN function which adds addressing and controlling information to message before it is transferred across the GPRS backbone network</p>
</div>


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<h3>enchanced RED algorithm; <em>ERED</em></h3>

<p>in the QoS buffer management, an enhancement to random early detection (RED) that works in the base station system GPRS protocol (BSSGP) buffer</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>encipherment</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07361#id07361" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See encryption</a></p>
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<h3>encipherment algorithm</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07436#id07436" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See cryptographic algorithm</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>encoded provisioning instance data; <em>EPD</em></h3>

<p>data object used to carry the encoded value of a provisioning instance</p>
</div>


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<h3>encoder</h3>

<p>device that performs encoding</p>
</div>


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<h3>encoding; <em>coding</em></h3>

<p>generation of a code word to represent a quantised value</p>
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<h3>encoding law</h3>

<p>law defining the relative values of the quantising intervals used in quantising and encoding</p>
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<h3>encryption; <em>ciphering</em>; <em>encipherment</em></h3>

<p>information security mechanism that performs information transformation according to a cryptographic system</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>encryption acceleration</h3>

<p>process of accelerating the computing in cryptographic operations</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>encryption algorithm</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07436#id07436" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See cryptographic algorithm</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>encryption function</h3>

<p>function that is used to transform cleartext input into a ciphertext object the contents of which cannot be seen or utilised unless an algorithm is applied to transform the ciphertext object back to cleartext object</p>
</div>


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<h3>encryption function bit; <em>encryption mode bit</em>; <em>E bit</em></h3>

<p>bit used to indicate whether the information and frame check sequence (FCS) fields of the unnumbered information (UI) frame are encrypted (ciphered) to provide user data confidentiality</p>
</div>


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<h3>encryption information</h3>

<p>information element (IE) that contains the keys and permitted algorithms used to control any encryption equipment at the radio network controller</p>
</div>


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<h3>encryption key; <em>Ki</em></h3>

<p>data protection key used for protecting the confidentiality of data items</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>encryption key index</h3>

<p>index that identifies which one of the several encryption keys available is the active one</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>encryption mode bit</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011316#id011316" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See encryption function bit</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>encryption request</h3>

<p>request to encrypt the transmitted data</p>
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<h3>end block</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09624#id09624" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See CML end block</a></p>
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<h3>end of file; <em>EOF</em></h3>

<p>control character or byte used in data communication which indicates that the last character of a file has been read</p>
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<h3>end of life</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015650#id015650" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end of life treatment</a></p>
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<h3>end of life treatment; <em>end of life</em>; <em>EOL</em></h3>

<p>environmentally conscious handling of hazardous substances such as obsolete electronic equipment</p>
</div>


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<h3>end of line; <em>EOL</em></h3>

<p>character or a character sequence which is used to terminate a line of text</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end of message; <em>EOM</em></h3>

<p>indicator used in the ATM adaptation layer (AAL) to identify the last ATM cell containing information from a data packet that has been segmented</p>
</div>


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<h3>end of optional parameters</h3>

<p>field in a signalling message indicating that there are no more optional parameters in the message</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end office /US/; <em>EO</em></h3>

<p>switching system where access lines are terminated for purposes of interconnection to each other and to trunks</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end station; <em>ES</em></h3>

<p>device that enables the communication between ATM end stations and end stations on "legacy" LAN or among ATM end stations</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end system; <em>ES</em></h3>

<p>node of telecommunication network that transmits and receives messages</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end system hello; <em>ESH</em></h3>

<p>end-system-originated packet that passes information to an intermediate system</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end system identifier; <em>ESI</em></h3>

<p>identifier in domain specific part of the NSAP address that distinguishes multiple nodes at the same level in case the lower level peer group is partitioned</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end system to intermediate system routing protocol; <em>ES-IS protocol</em>; <em>ES-IS</em></h3>

<p>protocol for connecting a system to a telecommunications network where the ISO Internet protocol (IP) is used for sending messages</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-of-dialing analysis /US/</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04072#id04072" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-of-selection analysis</a></p>
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<h3>end-of-dialling analysis</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04072#id04072" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-of-selection analysis</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-of-pulsing signal; <em>ST signal</em></h3>

<p>multifrequency signal that the originating exchange uses to indicate that according to the digit analysis the final digit has been sent</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-of-selection analysis; <em>EOS analysis</em>; <em>end-of-dialling analysis</em>; <em>end-of-dialing analysis /US/</em></h3>

<p>internal call control analysis which informs of call set-up results (end-of-dialling or congestion)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-of-talkburst tone</h3>

<p>audible indication that the terminal gives to the receiving user after the originating user has released the push to talk button, indicating that the others can take turns</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end connection</h3>

<p>connection between two endpoints</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end loopback; <em>ELB</em></h3>

<p>loopback in which a cell is inserted at an ATM connection endpoint, and switched back at the corresponding far-end ATM connection endpoint</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end service</h3>

<p>service that is delivered from a terminal to the server or vice versa, or between two terminals</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end signaling /US/</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04834#id04834" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-to-end signalling</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end signalling; <em>end-to-end signaling /US/</em></h3>

<p>capability to transfer signalling information of end point significance directly between signalling end points to provide a requesting user with a basic or supplementary service</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end supervision</h3>

<p>supervision for ensuring that the connections between the endpoints are working as expected over the IP network</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-to-end transfer delay; <em>ETD</em></h3>

<p>transfer delay which contains the cumulative delays that occurred during packet transfer</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-user</h3>

<p>functional entity above the signalling connection control part (SCCP) upper layer boundary indirectly using the services of the SCCP</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-user class</h3>

<p>classification which the network operator or service provider can define for the end users</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-user interface</h3>

<p>user interface for the end-users to access the system</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5644" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>end-user profile</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020058#id020058" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-user service profile</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-user service profile; <em>end-user profile</em></h3>

<p>service profile that includes end-user identification data and information about the subscribed services and their service settings and charging</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>end-user template</h3>

<p>template that can be used to provide end users with a predefined set of services</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>endless call forwarding loop prevention</h3>

<p>feature which prevents multiple calls being forwarded if they all concern one individual subscriber in the call set-up phase</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>endpoint; <em>ep</em></h3>

<p>network reference point at which a circuit, a path, a section, or a virtual connection begins or ends</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>endpoint group</h3>

<p>group of endpoints for a specific route which are organised according to certain characteristics</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>endpoint name resolution part; <em>ENRP</em></h3>

<p>protocol that provides a fault-tolerant real-time translation service that maps a name to a set of transport addresses pointing to a specific group of networked communication endpoints registered under that name</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5651" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>energy per bit-to-noise density ratio</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010180#id010180" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Eb/N0</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>energy per bit-to-noise power spectral density ratio</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010180#id010180" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Eb/N0</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>engaged test</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02506#id02506" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See hunting</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>engaged tone</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0810#id0810" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See busy tone</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>engine</h3>

<p>hardware and software that performs essential core functions for telecommunication or application tasks</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>engineered traffic capacity; <em>engineered transaction processing capacity</em></h3>

<p>traffic capacity of a network element taking into account all the capacity constraints</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5657" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>engineered transaction processing capacity</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011033#id011033" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See engineered traffic capacity</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>engineering order-wire; <em>order-wire</em>; <em>EOW</em></h3>

<p>connection used to provide a voice communication channel between network elements</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced attendant call hold</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010766#id010766" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See centrex enhanced attendant call hold</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced circuit switched data; <em>ECSD</em></h3>

<p>base station controller (BSC) feature which provides increased data rates in the radio interface for end-user applications</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced coverage by frequency hopping; <em>ECFH</em></h3>

<p>frequency hopping which provides handovers between high-power and low-power transceivers without deteriorating the quality of the radio network</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced data rates for global evolution</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010415#id010415" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EDGE</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced data rates for GSM evolution</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010415#id010415" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EDGE</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced full rate; <em>EFR</em></h3>

<p>speech coding where the information bits first go through preliminary channel coding and then through the basic channel coding</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5665" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced full rate codec</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09091#id09091" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced full rate speech codec</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced full rate speech codec; <em>enhanced full rate codec</em>; <em>EFR</em></h3>

<p>codec providing good speech quality to the end user by selecting correct resources, based on the information received from the mobile station (MS), and relaying the information to the base station system (BSS)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced general packet radio service; <em>enhanced GPRS</em>; <em>EGPRS</em></h3>

<p>general packet radio service (GPRS) whose data rate is increased up to threefold with enhanced data rates for global evolution (EDGE) modulation</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced GPRS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010416#id010416" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced general packet radio service</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced GPRS tunnelling protocol; <em>extended GTP</em>; <em>GTP'</em></h3>

<p>GPRS tunnelling protocol which includes functions for charging</p>
</div>


<a name="id020050" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced GPRS tunnelling protocol version 2; <em>GTP' version 2</em>; <em>GPR' v2</em>; <em>GPR' 2</em></h3>

<p>improved version of the enhanced GPRS tunnelling protocol (GTP')</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>Enhanced Hot Standby; <em>HSB/E</em></h3>

<p>equipment redundancy where one of the transceivers is continuously on and the antenna is powered up whereas the local oscillator for the standby transceiver is off. In the event of a fault in the operating equipment, the standby equipment takes over and the faulty equipment is automatically switched off</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced messaging; <em>EMS</em></h3>

<p>standard supported by Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens, and Alcatel which allows bitmap images, sounds, and animations to be attached to text messages</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced observed time difference; <em>E-OTD</em></h3>

<p>positioning method in which the location of a mobile station is calculated, based on the measurement of time difference of arrival of bursts from nearby pairs of base transceiver stations (BTS)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enhanced tariffing</h3>

<p>tariffing in which the tariff analysis is done in the service control point (SCP) using tariff models and according to this analysis, the SCP sets the tariff in the mobile services switching centre (MSC) by sending a charging zone or e-parameters</p>
</div>


<a name="id03048" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>enquiry call; <em>hold for enquiry</em></h3>

<p>part of the three party service (full) which enables a subscriber who is engaged on an established call to set up another call to a third party, switch from one call to the other as required, release one call and retain the other or introduce a common three way conversation (see: three-way conversation)</p>
</div>


<a name="id09190" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>enquiry call connection</h3>

<p>connection to the third party set up by the controlling subscriber with an enquiry call during an established call</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enquiry call to attendant; <em>enquiry call to operator</em></h3>

<p>enquiry call to centrex attendant by means of attendant incall identifier</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5678" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>enquiry call to operator</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05431#id05431" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enquiry call to attendant</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5679" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>ENRP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016147#id016147" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See endpoint name resolution part</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>Enterprise Java Beans; <em>Enterprise Java Beans architecture</em>; <em>EJB</em></h3>

<p>component architecture for the development and deployment of component-based distributed business applications</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5681" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>Enterprise Java Beans architecture</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012170#id012170" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Enterprise Java Beans</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enterprise service provider; <em>ESP</em></h3>

<p>application service provider (ASP) that offers enterprise application hosting</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>entire backup</h3>

<p>safecopy of the entire software build including the databases of the network element</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>entity</h3>

<p>group of data handled as a unit together with code or information related to processing of the data</p>
</div>


<a name="id07607" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>entity declaration</h3>

<p>entry in a document type definition that assigns an SGML name to an entity so you can reference it</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5686" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>entity-relationship model</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04291#id04291" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See ER model</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>entry</h3>

<p>collection of information about a directory object</p>
</div>


<a name="id09549" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>entry descriptor; <em>descriptor</em></h3>

<p>C-data structure generated by the CASN containing information on one C-type</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>entry descriptor table</h3>

<p>descriptor table generated by the CASN containing all the entry descriptors of one ASN.1 descriptor</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ENUM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019500#id019500" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electronic numbering</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ENUM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04194#id04194" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enumeration</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>enumeration; <em>ENUM</em></h3>

<p>type definition which lists and names the values of a type</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>environment control list; <em>ECL</em></h3>

<p>list of environment definition components, mainly those of messages, alarms and files, including their version data, which belong to a certain software environment</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5694" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>environment definition directory</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04311#id04311" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See public definitions</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id04154" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>environment of a system; <em>system environment</em></h3>

<p>external world of the viewed system</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>environment variable</h3>

<p>key - value pair that software can set and read with operating system services before starting the execution of a program</p>
</div>


<a name="id08418" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>environmental alarm</h3>

<p>alarm principally associated with a condition that relates to the enclosure containing the equipment</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5698" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EO</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016041#id016041" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end office /US/</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05453#id05453" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See embedded operations channel</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id021193#id021193" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end of file</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOL</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015650#id015650" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end of life treatment</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOL</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id021194#id021194" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end of line</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09712#id09712" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end of message</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOS analysis</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04072#id04072" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-of-selection analysis</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EOW</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08032#id08032" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See engineering order-wire</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014797#id014797" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See elementary procedure</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ep</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08417#id08417" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See endpoint</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPCR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019959#id019959" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EGPRS packet channel request</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020313#id020313" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See encoded provisioning instance data</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09710#id09710" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See early packet discard</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPIU</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019805#id019805" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Ethernet plug-in unit</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPOC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010834#id010834" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Symbian OS</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPos location framework</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018732#id018732" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See mobile location framework</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPPI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07917#id07917" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electrical PDH physical interface</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPROM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0143#id0143" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See erasable programmable read-only memory</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EPS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016719#id016719" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external provisioning system</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equal access; <em>US equal access</em></h3>

<p>feature which provides a way for the subscriber to select the network operator when making long distance or international calls, regardless of contracts made with operators</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equal switching</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07998#id07998" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See non-revertive switching</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equalizer</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0299#id0299" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See line equalizer</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>equalizer; <em>equalizer network</em></h3>

<p>corrective network placed at the input of a repeater or terminal equipment, which compensates for amplitude or delay distortion by providing an attenuation-frequency or delay-frequency characteristic opposite to that of the preceding transmission path</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equalizer network</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06864#id06864" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See equalizer</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EQUIPM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09092#id09092" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See equipment database</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment alarm</h3>

<p>alarm which is given by equipment or a unit and may be transferred into the transmission management system</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment database; <em>EQUIPM</em></h3>

<p>database in which the hardware configuration data is stored by hardware configuration management programs</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment domain</h3>

<p>object class to describe hardware or software or a combination of both, not necessarily physically distinct within a computer system</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment identity register; <em>EIR</em></h3>

<p>database of a mobile communication network containing information about qualification approved mobile stations (MSs) and their states</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment loopback; <em>loop to equipment</em></h3>

<p>method for testing the operation of an interface in which the outgoing signal is looped back to the input</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment management</h3>

<p>feature for making changes to equipment data descriptions in the equipment database and to output existing equipment data</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5729" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment protection</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06183#id06183" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See equipment redundancy</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id06183" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment redundancy; <em>equipment protection</em></h3>

<p>redundancy scheme in which, when the standby equipment fails, the unbroken equipment is chosen and the broken equipment is switched off</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment trace</h3>

<p>trace observation the target of which is a mobile device so that a report is generated automatically when the device is used for a call attempt or service</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment vendor development engineering community; <em>development engineering community</em></h3>

<p>measurement user community whose members expect that the wireless telecommunication network is fully operational, adequately engineered, and in commercial service, and whose primary objective is to guarantee that the implementations and designs conform to real-world observations of the fixed network equipment of the operating company</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equipment vendor performance modelling community; <em>performance modelling community</em></h3>

<p>measurement user community whose members expect that the wireless telecommunication network is fully operational, adequately engineered, and at some level of call capable service, and whose primary objective is to guarantee that the models used during analysis and design conform to real-world observations of the fixed network equipment of the operating company</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equivalent binary content</h3>

<p>number of binary digits strictly necessary to convey the same information as a defined number of signal elements in a given digital signal</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>equivalent bit rate</h3>

<p>value of the bit rate strictly necessary to convey the same information in the same time as a given digital signal at a given digit rate</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5736" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>equivalent isotropic radiated power</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013657#id013657" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See effective isotropic radiated power</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5737" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>equivalent radiated power</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013660#id013660" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See effective radiated power</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ER</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020035#id020035" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event record</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ER</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09715#id09715" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See explicit rate</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>ER model; <em>entity-relationship model</em></h3>

<p>object-based, logical data model which can be used for planning databases</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>erasable programmable read-only memory; <em>EPROM</em></h3>

<p>fixed semiconductive memory (read-only memory) whose content can be zeroed with for example ultraviolet light and reprogrammed with for example electrical signals</p>
</div>


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<h3>erase</h3>

<p>to remove information stored for a particular service in a preceding registration</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>erase</h3>

<p>to remove from a data medium</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>eraseSS</h3>

<p>operation in which a supplementary service is deactivated and the registration data is removed</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>erasure</h3>

<p>process by which information stored for a particular service in a preceding registration is removed</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5746" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>ERB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09096#id09096" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EventReportBCSM</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERBSMS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016031#id016031" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EventReportSMS procedure</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013855#id013855" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external reference clock</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERED</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016609#id016609" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enchanced RED algorithm</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>Erl</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0160#id0160" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See erlang</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERL</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05170#id05170" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo return loss</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>erlang; <em>E</em>; <em>Erl</em></h3>

<p>unit of carried traffic intensity</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERLE</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011030#id011030" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See echo return loss enhancement</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5754" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>ERP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013660#id013660" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See effective radiated power</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020198#id020198" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See protocol data unit error</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error; <em>digital error</em></h3>

<p>inconsistency between a digit in a transmitted digital signal and a corresponding digit in the received digital signal</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error burst</h3>

<p>group of bits in which two successive erroneous bits are always separated by less than a given number (x) of correct bits. The number x should be specified when describing an error burst</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5758" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>error cause</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019771#id019771" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error cause value</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error cause value; <em>error cause</em></h3>

<p>cause value which is used to indicate the reason for the error</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error checking and correction; <em>error detection and correction</em>; <em>ECC</em>; <em>EDAC</em></h3>

<p>collection of methods to detect errors in transmitted or stored data and to correct them</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error code</h3>

<p>indication about an error that can comprise an output text, a short description of the error situation, and possibly instructions</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error control procedure</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020529#id020529" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error protection</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error counter</h3>

<p>counter whose value indicates the number of errors related to an event</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5764" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>error detection and correction</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017143#id017143" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error checking and correction</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error detection code</h3>

<p>mechanism for error detection of OAM cells</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error event</h3>

<p>abnormal situation noticed by the charging gateway which warrants logging the event in an error log file, and possibly a notification to a central monitoring facility, usually an alarm monitoring system</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5767" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>error event handling</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014807#id014807" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See handling of error event procedure</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error event handling subsystem</h3>

<p>routines linked to each charging gateway module which enables the module to generate alarm events and pass them to the alarm dispatcher</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5769" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>error extension</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id03550#id03550" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error multiplication</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error indication</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014799#id014799" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error indication procedure</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>error indication procedure; <em>error indication</em></h3>

<p>elementary procedure that a node initiates to report detected errors in an incoming message, provided that the errors cannot be reported by an appropriate failure message</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error log</h3>

<p>log into which information about errors in a computer is gathered</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error message</h3>

<p>notice which is output due to an error in a command</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error message</h3>

<p>message that informs the user that the requested task cannot be performed due to an error</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error multiplication; <em>error extension</em></h3>

<p>property of an apparatus whereby a single digital error in the input signal presented to it results in more than one digital error in the output signal</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error multiplication factor</h3>

<p>ratio of the number of digital errors in the output signal to the number of digital errors in the input signal</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5777" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>error notification</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011501#id011501" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See alarm event</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>ERROR packet</h3>

<p>trivial file transfer protocol (TFTP) packet which signifies an error situation in file transfer</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>error protection; <em>error control procedure</em></h3>

<p>procedure for detecting, reducing, and possibly correcting the effects of errors generated during the process of data transmission</p>
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<h3>error rate</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id01799#id01799" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error ratio</a></p>
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<h3>error rate monitoring</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08549#id08549" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error ratio monitoring</a></p>
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<h3>error ratio; <em>error rate</em></h3>

<p>ratio of the number of digital errors received in a specified period to the total number of digits received in the same period</p>
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<h3>error ratio counter</h3>

<p>counter which is reserved to observe the success of a certain transaction</p>
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<h3>error ratio monitoring; <em>error rate monitoring</em></h3>

<p>continuous measurement of error ratio on a digital transmission link</p>
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<h3>error recovery</h3>

<p>feature that ensures that, if the charging gateway (CG) core crashes, every charging record (CDR) is processed and no CDR is lost</p>
</div>


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<h3>error reporting</h3>

<p>function that reports to statistics certain protocol errors and operations, and the errors discovered during call setup phase on ingress side, when call request has not yet been forwarded to the service user</p>
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<h3>error value</h3>

<p>value in the return error component indicating the cause of the rejection</p>
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<h3>error vector magnitude; <em>EVM</em></h3>

<p>with digital modulation formats, form of modulation measurement carried out for a transmitter, for finding out the deviation of the actual from the ideal waveform</p>
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<h3>error-correcting code; <em>ECC</em></h3>

<p>code in which each signal conforms to specific rules of construction so that departures from this construction in the received signals can be automatically detected, permitting the automatic correction of some or all errors at the receiving terminal</p>
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<h3>error-detecting code; <em>EDC</em></h3>

<p>code in which each signal conforms to specific rules of construction so that departures from this construction in the received signals can be automatically detected but not corrected</p>
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<h3>error-free second; <em>EFS</em></h3>

<p>ratio of the number of one-second intervals during which no bits are received in error to the total number of one-second intervals in the time interval</p>
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<h3>errored block; <em>EB</em></h3>

<p>block in which one or more bits are in error</p>
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<h3>errored second; <em>ES</em></h3>

<p>period of time of duration one second during which one or more digital errors occur in a given digital signal</p>
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<h3>errored second ratio; <em>ESR</em></h3>

<p>ratio of errored seconds (ES) to total seconds in available time during a fixed measurement interval</p>
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<h3>errored second type A; <em>ESA</em></h3>

<p>attribute that identifies a count of errored seconds containing one digital transmission error</p>
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<h3>errored second type B; <em>ESB</em></h3>

<p>attribute that identifies a count of errored seconds containing at least two, and no more than a defined number of digital transmission errors</p>
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<h3>ES</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05982#id05982" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See errored second</a></p>
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<h3>ES</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06943#id06943" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end system</a></p>
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<h3>ES</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09223#id09223" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end station</a></p>
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<h3>ES-IS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06945#id06945" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end system to intermediate system routing protocol</a></p>
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<h3>ES-IS protocol</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06945#id06945" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end system to intermediate system routing protocol</a></p>
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<h3>ESA</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015115#id015115" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See errored second type A</a></p>
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<h3>ESA</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016212#id016212" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external SNMP application</a></p>
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<h3>ESB</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015116#id015116" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See errored second type B</a></p>
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<h3>escape code</h3>

<p>indicator consisting of one or more digits which is defined in a given numbering plan and which is used to indicate that the following digits are from a different numbering plan</p>
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<h3>ESCE</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017030#id017030" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external service creation environment</a></p>
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<h3>ESH</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011773#id011773" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end system hello</a></p>
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<h3>ESI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09713#id09713" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end system identifier</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>ESME</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015975#id015975" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency services message entity</a></p>
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<h3>ESME client information</h3>

<p>system identity of emergency services message entity (ESME) clients that is used to access the E911 interface</p>
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<h3>ESNE</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015976#id015976" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency services network entity</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>ESP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012004#id012004" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external service provider</a></p>
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<h3>ESP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014467#id014467" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enterprise service provider</a></p>
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<h3>ESP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018592#id018592" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See e-mail smart push</a></p>
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<h3>ESP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09968#id09968" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See encapsulating security payload</a></p>
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<h3>ESPI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07918#id07918" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See electrical SDH physical interface</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>ESR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06624#id06624" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See errored second ratio</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>ESRD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015974#id015974" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency services routing digits</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>ESRK</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015973#id015973" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See emergency services routing key</a></p>
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<h3>essential element</h3>

<p>information element that must be included in the message for the procedure in question to be executed correctly</p>
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<h3>essential UE requirement (conditional)</h3>

<p>requirement which has to be implemented under certain service conditions, for example, adaptive multi- rate speech codec (AMR codec) in a user equipment (UE) which supports speech service</p>
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<h3>essential UE requirement (unconditional)</h3>

<p>requirement which has to be implemented in any 3G user equipment (UE) in order to exist in and communicate with 3G network (for example, chip rate of 3.84 Mcps)</p>
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<h3>establish code of hotCDR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09093#id09093" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See establishment code of hotCDR</a></p>
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<h3>established call</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05637#id05637" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See connected call</a></p>
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<h3>established mobile operator</h3>

<p>incumbent network operator with an existing mobile network</p>
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<h3>established network operator</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09040#id09040" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See incumbent network operator</a></p>
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<h3>established operator</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09040#id09040" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See incumbent network operator</a></p>
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<h3>establishment code of hotCDR; <em>establish code of hotCDR</em></h3>

<p>code which tells the reason for hot billing</p>
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<h3>establishment of a connection</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011534#id011534" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See connection establishment</a></p>
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<h3>EstablishTemporaryConnection; <em>ETC</em></h3>

<p>message that service control point (SCP) uses to connect the call from service switching point (SSP) to the external intelligent peripheral (IP)</p>
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<h3>ESW</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018580#id018580" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Ethernet switch</a></p>
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<h3>ET</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02950#id02950" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See exchange termination</a></p>
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<h3>ET group</h3>

<p>set of exchange termination (ET) functional units configured in the same track, that is, in the same instance of a plug-in unit</p>
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<h3>ET-PCM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id03463#id03463" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external PCM circuit</a></p>
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<h3>ETC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09094#id09094" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EstablishTemporaryConnection</a></p>
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<h3>ETCL</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020315#id020315" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extended trader constraint language</a></p>
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<h3>ETD</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013722#id013722" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See end-to-end transfer delay</a></p>
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<h3>Ethernet</h3>

<p>local area network (LAN) that uses carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) and connects personal computers by means of coaxial cable or twisted-pair conductors</p>
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<h3>Ethernet controller</h3>

<p>unit that connects a device to the Ethernet cable</p>
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<h3>Ethernet frame</h3>

<p>frame with a size between 64 and 1518 octets, used to deliver data between computers in an Ethernet-based system</p>
</div>


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<h3>Ethernet interface</h3>

<p>concrete connection between a computer and Ethernet</p>
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<h3>Ethernet interface switchover; <em>interface switchover</em></h3>

<p>action of bringing the backup Ethernet interface into use and thus automatically recovering from an interface failure</p>
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<h3>Ethernet plug-in unit; <em>EPIU</em></h3>

<p>plug-in unit of FIU 19E providing two 10/100Base-T Ethernet interfaces for carrying up to 2x32 Mbit/s Ethernet payload traffic over two microwave radio links</p>
</div>


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<h3>Ethernet switch; <em>ESW</em></h3>

<p>network device that connects local area networks and is capable of switching packets from one Ethernet segment to another</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>Ethernet terminal equipment</h3>

<p>terminal equipment which implements the Ethernet terminal function</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>Ethernet-based message bus; <em>EMB</em></h3>

<p>message bus which is used for messaging over the Ethernet local area network (LAN)</p>
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<h3>ETSI</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id04257#id04257" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See European Telecommunications Standards Institute</a></p>
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<h3>ETSI mobile number portability</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012286#id012286" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See mobile number portability</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EUC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018639#id018639" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extended UNIX code</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EUC-JP</h3>

<p>instance of extended UNIX code (EUC) for Japanese</p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>EUN</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012060#id012060" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external update notification</a></p>
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<div class="topic">
<h3>European Digital Signal 1</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id08662#id08662" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See E1</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>European Telecommunications Standards Institute; <em>ETSI</em></h3>

<p>European standards organization that produces European standards which are applied and accepted in the area of telecommunications</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EV-DO</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017104#id017104" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See CDMA2000 1XEV-DO</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>evaluation model</h3>

<p>I/O device model where the design is not complete</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>evaluation unit</h3>

<p>sample of evaluation model</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event</h3>

<p>notification of a change in the state of a node or of a momentary problem, usually in the communication between the node and the local exchange</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event</h3>

<p>occurrence of significance to a task</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event CDR</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id012087#id012087" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event charging record</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event charging record; <em>event CDR</em></h3>

<p>charging record generated in case of a call-unrelated event related to the prepaid account</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event code</h3>

<p>cause code used for identifying events during a call, except clearing</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event consumer; <em>EC</em></h3>

<p>process which can connect to the event channel to receive the subscribed events from the event forwarder</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event converter</h3>

<p>service that converts DMX messages into XML or other preferred format using the given templates</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event counter measurement; <em>ECM</em></h3>

<p>measurement type where measurement information is collected based on the event counting in the service control point (SCP)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event detection point; <em>EDP</em></h3>

<p>detection point from which an event is reported to the service software (SCP) during the service</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event detection point notification; <em>EDP-N</em></h3>

<p>event detection point (EDP) in notification mode that is dynamically armed within the context of a CAMEL control relationship and the processing of which is not suspended when encountering the detection point (DP)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event detection point request; <em>EDP-R</em></h3>

<p>event detection point (EDP) in request mode that is dynamically armed within the context of a CAMEL control relationship and the processing of which is suspended when encountering the detection point (DP)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event forwarder; <em>EF</em></h3>

<p>set of processes that together provide the multicasting of DMX messages by passing events between event producers and event consumers</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event forwarding</h3>

<p>service which allows the applications to order asynchronous notifications about events that occur in the system, and to generate events which are distributed to applications interested in them</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event forwarding discriminator; <em>EFD</em></h3>

<p>managed object, for example, part of a circuit or software, that controls the discrimination filtering and forwarding of event reports relating to other managed objects</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event handler</h3>

<p>object that receives events (DMX messages), converts them into XML or other preferred format with services provided by the event converter, filters them according to the given filter attribute, sends them to a group of target addresses using the given protocol, and logs them into a cyclic buffer on a system disk</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event log</h3>

<p>log in which information about the occurred events is saved</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event log backup mark; <em>backup mark</em></h3>

<p>information on the event log about the beginning and ending of the fallback copying</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event log buffer</h3>

<p>buffer memory into which the event log saves the events before transferring them into a disk file</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event log stream; <em>service request log stream</em>; <em>SRL stream</em></h3>

<p>group of events saved one after another</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event loop</h3>

<p>procedure that monitors for events external to the application and, when occurring, delivers them to various parts of the application code as callbacks</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event management</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018375#id018375" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See configuration data event management</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event producer</h3>

<p>process which can connect to the event channel and deliver events to the event forwarder</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event queue</h3>

<p>queue whose calendar tasks are executed on the basis of a given alarm</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event record; <em>ER</em></h3>

<p>record of information generated for a certain event or transaction</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event type</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013724#id013724" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See event type of alarm</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event type of alarm; <em>event type</em></h3>

<p>parameter that categorises an alarm in one of five basic categories</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event variable</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id09833#id09833" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See condition variable</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event-based charging</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017043#id017043" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See transaction-based charging</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>event-based report transfer</h3>

<p>feature which enables the on-line transfer of observation reports from the mobile services switching centre (MSC) or the home location register (HLR) to the operations support system (OSS)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EventNotificationCharging; <em>ENC</em></h3>

<p>message that service switching point (SSP) uses to report a charging event that has been previously requested by the service control point (SCP) by message RequestNotificationChargingEvent</p>
</div>


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<h3>EventReportBCSM; <em>ERB</em></h3>

<p>message that the service switching point (SSP) uses to inform the service control point (SCP) of an encountered call related event that has been previously requested by the service control point (SCP) with RequestReportBCSMEvent</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EventReportSMS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id016031#id016031" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See EventReportSMS procedure</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EventReportSMS procedure; <em>EventReportSMS</em>; <em>ERBSMS</em></h3>

<p>operation which is used to notify the gsmSCF of a short-message-related event previously requested by the gsmSCF in a RequestReportSMSEvent operation</p>
</div>


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<h3>events</h3>

<p>on the Club Nokia web pages, a subheading under services, leading to pages that show the event calendar and a list of events booked by the user</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EVM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013659#id013659" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See error vector magnitude</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>Evolution - Data Only</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id017104#id017104" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See CDMA2000 1XEV-DO</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>evolvability</h3>

<p>ability of a system to be improved by incorporating new technologies and components</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EWS</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015112#id015112" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See Embedded Workshop</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EWSIC</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018997#id018997" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See embedded web services interface component</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EX</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02864#id02864" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See executive</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>EX</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07921#id07921" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extinction ratio</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exception</h3>

<p>exceptional handling of an executed instruction or an interrupt</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exception handler</h3>

<p>function associated with processing, which the hardware automatically invokes when the specified exception happens</p>
</div>


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<h3>excessive bit error rate; <em>EBER</em></h3>

<p>rate at which corrupted data exceeds the acceptable level for specified end service integrity and/or quality</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange; <em>switching exchange</em>; <em>switching centre</em>; <em>central office /US/</em>; <em>CO /US/</em></h3>

<p>aggregate of traffic carrying devices, switching stages, controlling and signalling means and other functional units at a network node that enables subscriber lines, telecommunication circuits and/or other functional units to be interconnected as required by individual users</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange call set-up delay</h3>

<p>interval from the instant when the digits required for setting up a call are available in the exchange or the address information is received at the incoming signalling data transmission control of the exchange to the instant when the seizing signal is sent to the subsequent exchange or the corresponding address information is sent from the outgoing signalling data transmission control</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange call-release delay</h3>

<p>interval from the instant at which the last information required for releasing a call in an exchange is available for processing in the exchange to the instant that the switching network through-connection is no longer available between the incoming and outgoing circuits and the disconnection signal is sent to the subsequent exchange. This interval does not include the time taken to detect the release signal, which might become significant during certain failure conditions, for example, transmission system failures</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange code</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013168#id013168" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See office code</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange concentrator; <em>traffic concentrator</em>; <em>concentrator</em></h3>

<p>switching stage wherein a number of subscriber lines or trunk circuits carrying relatively low traffic volumes can be through-connected to a couple of circuits carrying higher traffic volumes</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange connection</h3>

<p>connection that is established through an exchange, between the terminations on that exchange, of two or more channels or circuits</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange hierarchy; <em>network hierarchy</em></h3>

<p>network arrangement including the interlinking of trunk exchanges by transmission paths to provide a subscriber switching service</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5908" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange identification</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011317#id011317" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See exchange identity</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange identity; <em>exchange identification</em>; <em>XID</em></h3>

<p>set of parameters for logical link control (LLC) and subnetwork dependent convergence protocol (SNDCP) layers that are negotiated between a mobile station (MS) and a serving GPRS support node (SGSN) during data link establishment or modification procedure</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange overload supervision; <em>supervision of exchange overload</em></h3>

<p>part of the maintenance supervision which gives an alarm if the parameterised maximum number for calls is exceeded during the monitoring period</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exchange termination; <em>ET</em></h3>

<p>unit or function on the exchange side of the switching/ transmission interface</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>excitation; <em>impulse</em></h3>

<p>situation or event that triggers the execution of a data processing task</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exclusive access</h3>

<p>access to the cells belonging to one or more localised service areas (LSA) permited only for users having these cells included in the allowed localised service areas</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exclusive lock; <em>write lock</em></h3>

<p>lock which can be used only by one application at a time</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exclusive restriction</h3>

<p>restriction type determining that only the users for whom the allowed parameter or attribute type values of a restricted operation have been defined may execute the restricted operation in question</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>executable and linking format; <em>ELF</em></h3>

<p>portable object file format that works on 32-bit Intel architecture environments for a variety of operating systems</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>executable service script</h3>

<p>script defining a service</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>execution environment</h3>

<p>environment in which programs can be run</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>execution error printout</h3>

<p>print-out which indicates that a given command cannot be executed</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>execution printout</h3>

<p>output which indicates that a given command is executed</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>execution queue</h3>

<p>queue where calendar tasks wait for execution</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>execution subsystem</h3>

<p>subsystem that handles the functions that the end-user experiences</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>execution time</h3>

<p>point in time at which a command or command file starts to queue up for an MML session</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>executive; <em>EX</em></h3>

<p>state of a functional unit in which it is ready to perform its tasks</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5925" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>existing call</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id05637#id05637" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See connected call</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exit</h3>

<p>elementary action denoting that a certain sequence of elementary actions has been completed successfully</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5927" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>EXPANA</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013073#id013073" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extended preanalysis</a></p>
</div>


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<h3>expansion</h3>

<p>process in which the range of amplitudes of a signal is automatically increased in a specified manner</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expansion</h3>

<p>configuration wherein the number of inlets into the switching stage is smaller than the number of outlets</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5930" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>Expat</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015739#id015739" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XML Parser Toolkit</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>EXPAT</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015739#id015739" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XML Parser Toolkit</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expected response</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id018629#id018629" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See expected user response</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expected user response; <em>expected response</em>; <em>XRES</em></h3>

<p>part of the authentication quintuplet which is used as a reference value for the response to the challenge during the authentication and key agreement (AKA)</p>
</div>


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<h3>expedited data; <em>ED</em></h3>

<p>data transferred with priority which bypasses the normal data flow control</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expedited data transfer</h3>

<p>function used to bypass the flow control of normal data TPDU (Expedited data TPDU flow is controlled by separate flow control.)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expedited forwarding</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015123#id015123" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See expedited forwarding PHB</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expedited forwarding PHB; <em>expedited forwarding</em>; <em>EF</em></h3>

<p>differentiated services (DS) per-hop-behaviour (PHB) which can be used to build a low loss, low latency, low jitter, assured bandwidth, end-to-end service through DS domains</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expiration timer</h3>

<p>timer mechanism which detects charging records (CDR) which stay for too long in the recycling file (storage for combining), and forwards them to the output directory</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expiry fee</h3>

<p>service fee that is related to prepaid expiry and that can be charged at credit expiry and at subscription expiry independently of the calls made</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expiry fee charging</h3>

<p>service fee charging where the subscriber is charged an expiry fee</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expiry function</h3>

<p>function which is used to calculate the new credit expiry date and subscription expiry date when a recharge is performed</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit call transfer; <em>ECT</em>; <em>CTE</em></h3>

<p>call transfer which enables a served user, who has two calls, to connect the two calls together into one call</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit congestion notification; <em>ECN</em></h3>

<p>bit that the network sets to "1" to notify about congestion in the network and about the network resources being insufficient to support the relaying of frames at the current rate</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit diversity gain</h3>

<p>effective gain achieved using diversity techniques</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit flow control</h3>

<p>function used to regulate the flow of transport protocol data units (TPDUs) between two transport entities on one transport connection</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit forward congestion indication; <em>EFCI</em></h3>

<p>indication in the ATM cell header, which may be set by a network element in an impending-congested state or a congested state so that the indication may be examined by the destination end-system</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit IMSI detach from GPRS services</h3>

<p>IMSI detach that the serving GPRS support node (SGSN) uses to indicate to the visitor location register (VLR) that the mobile station has been IMSI detached from GPRS service and therefore that the association between the SGSN and the VLR has to be deactivated</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit IMSI detach from non-GPRS services</h3>

<p>IMSI detach that the serving GPRS support node (SGSN) uses to indicate to the visitor location register (VLR) that the mobile station has performed IMSI detach from non-GPRS service and therefore that the association between the SGSN and the VLR is no longer active</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit rate; <em>ER</em></h3>

<p>field in resource management (RM) cell used to limit the allowed cell rate (ACR) to a specific value</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>explicit request</h3>

<p>request for the activation of user-to-user signalling</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>export</h3>

<p>to store a file in a different format for use by another application</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>export</h3>

<p>storing of a file in a different format for use by another application</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exported number</h3>

<p>in the context of mobile number portability, a telephone number that has been exported from one network operator to another</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exported subscription</h3>

<p>subscription which is moved from the home public land mobile network (PLMN) to another PLMN</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>express message</h3>

<p>internal signal between the subautomatons within a process</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>expression</h3>

<p>source language combination of one or more operations</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5957" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extend mouse button</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07686#id07686" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See middle mouse button</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended command language</h3>

<p>man-machine language with which it is possible to use command codes and execute MML macros during an MML session</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended dynamic allocation; <em>extended dynamic allocation mode</em>; <em>extended dynamic allocation medium access method</em></h3>

<p>medium access mode which can be used during the temporary block flow in the scheduling of uplink transmission turns and which allows higher uplink throughput than dynamic allocation</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5960" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extended dynamic allocation medium access method</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011220#id011220" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extended dynamic allocation</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5961" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extended dynamic allocation mode</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011220#id011220" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extended dynamic allocation</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended GTP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011548#id011548" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See enhanced GPRS tunnelling protocol</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended passive bus</h3>

<p>bus used to reach a cluster of terminals located a maximum of about 500 metres from the network termination (NT)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended preanalysis; <em>EXPANA</em></h3>

<p>feature which is used for the selection of routing based on the number of digits that the user has dialled, or on the number of digits received from incoming signalling</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended presence information</h3>

<p>presence information including specific manufacturer, vendor, or service provider extension attributes and extension fields</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended range cell</h3>

<p>base station system feature used for increasing the cell radius</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended sequence number</h3>

<p>sequence number field of the message transfer part level 2 (MTP2) signal unit which has been extended to 12 bits</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended trader constraint language; <em>ETCL</em></h3>

<p>filtering constraint language defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) notification service specification</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended unitdata; <em>XUDT</em></h3>

<p>message used in the signalling connection control part (SCCP) segmenting connectionless service to transfer data</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended unitdata service; <em>XUDTS</em></h3>

<p>message used in the signalling connection control part (SCCP) connectionless service to return an extended unitdata (XUDT) message which cannot be delivered to its destination</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended UNIX code; <em>EUC</em></h3>

<p>character encoding method used in UNIX</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5972" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extended uplink TBF</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id019377#id019377" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extended uplink TBF mode</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extended uplink TBF mode; <em>extended uplink TBF</em></h3>

<p>mode of operation of a mobile station, in which the uplink temporary block flow (TBF) is maintained during temporary inactive periods, when the mobile station has no radio link control (RLC) information to send</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extensibility</h3>

<p>ability of a system to be extended, and thereby enhanced or customised, by a third party</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible authentication protocol; <em>EAP</em></h3>

<p>protocol that supports multiple, optional authentication mechanisms for the point-to-point protocol (PPP), including cleartext passwords, challenge-response, and arbitrary dialogue sequences</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5976" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible hypertext markup language</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014456#id014456" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XHTML</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5977" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible markup language</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07625#id07625" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XML</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5978" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible markup language parser</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015347#id015347" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See XML parser</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5979" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible style language</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id014157#id014157" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extensible stylesheet language</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible stylesheet language; <em>extensible style language</em>; <em>XSL</em></h3>

<p>style sheet language for extensible markup language (XML)</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extensible stylesheet language transformations; <em>XSLT</em></h3>

<p>World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for transforming XML documents into other XML documents or other formats</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension</h3>

<p>mechanism provided by the core intelligent network application protocol (INAP) to extend the protocol with vendor-specific parameters</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension</h3>

<p>subscriber connection served by a PABX or a centrex</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-5984" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>extension</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id07388#id07388" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See extension number</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension attribute; <em>presence extension attribute</em></h3>

<p>presence attribute that is part of the extended presence information</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension header flag; <em>E</em></h3>

<p>field in a GTP header indicating the presence of the next extension header field when it is set to '1'</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension indicator</h3>

<p>indicator in every octet of a multi-octet parameter field with variable length, indicating whether the octet is the last one or followed by another one</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension number; <em>extension</em></h3>

<p>number of a PABX or a centrex extension</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>extension update</h3>

<p>feature level update which includes an extension to a software build</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>exterior gateway protocol; <em>EGP</em></h3>

<p>Internet protocol used to exchange routing information between autonomous systems</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external alarm; <em>EA</em></h3>

<p>alarm concerning a supervised external device located outside the network element</p>
</div>


<a name="id013725" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external alarm definition data</h3>

<p>data which identifies an external alarm</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external alarm handler</h3>

<p>alarm system process which handles the external alarms and the related tasks received from the user interface</p>
</div>


<a name="id013727" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external alarm input</h3>

<p>connection of a single external alarm to the external alarm interface plug-in unit</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external alarm input characteristic</h3>

<p>characteristic which identifies the use of external alarm input</p>
</div>


<a name="id013729" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external alarm interface</h3>

<p>interface via which the system is kept informed about external alarms</p>
</div>


<a name="id014013" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external application; <em>EA</em></h3>

<p>application which resides on an external host</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external assisting IP; <em>assisting external IP</em>; <em>external IP</em></h3>

<p>Internet protocol that can be used when the service control point (SCP) requests the connection to the external internet protocol (IP) with EstablishTemporaryConnection operation</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external ATM interface; <em>external ATM line</em></h3>

<p>ATM interface between the network and a network element</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6000" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external ATM line</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id013730#id013730" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external ATM interface</a></p>
</div>


<a name="id015686" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external authentication adapter; <em>external authentication module</em>; <em>external authorisation adapter</em></h3>

<p>plug-in software that implements the application programming interface (API) for authentication and integrates with the subscriber database through the Nokia Delivery Server (DLS)</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6002" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external authentication module</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015686#id015686" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external authentication adapter</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6003" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external authorisation adapter</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015686#id015686" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external authentication adapter</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external balance holder; <em>EBH</em></h3>

<p>network server which is used as a balance holder and resides outside the network element concerned</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external call circuit group</h3>

<p>circuit group between the superior exchange and the private automatic branch exchange (PABX) switching incoming traffic and traffic going out of the group in a PABX centrex</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external client</h3>

<p>client that resides outside the network element</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external clock supervision</h3>

<p>supervision of the external 8 kHz basic timing signal used for generating the 100 Hz clock interrupt signal</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external connection</h3>

<p>virtual connection in which the second end point is located outside the network element</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external content storage</h3>

<p>content storage which makes content available over a web server</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6010" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external direction</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0787#id0787" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external route</a></p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6011" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external entity</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id015821#id015821" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external parsed entity</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external event forwarder and log; <em>EEFL</em></h3>

<p>feature that provides the means for external systems to receive events from a DX 200 network element</p>
</div>


<a name="id010422" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external identification number; <em>external identifier</em></h3>

<p>identification data which the attendant can use as a search key when retrieving booking forms from the system's memory</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6014" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external identifier</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id010422#id010422" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external identification number</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external IN service</h3>

<p>IN supported service which follows the original idea of intelligent network (IN) architecture</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external interface</h3>

<p>interface between network elements or between hardware units</p>
</div>


<a name="p2xhtm-repid-6017" shape="rect"></a>
<div class="topic">
<h3>external IP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id011552#id011552" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external assisting IP</a></p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external IP address of the DLS instance</h3>

<p>virtual IP address on the external network, assigned by the network address translator (NAT) to each DLS instance in the cluster</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external location updating</h3>

<p>location updating during which a subscriber moves from the location area of one visitor location register (VLR) to a location area of another VLR</p>
</div>


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<div class="topic">
<h3>external loop</h3>

<p>test loopback where a signal is connected through the switching network</p>
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<h3>external machine interface; <em>EMI</em></h3>

<p>interface between the short message service centre (SMSC) system and other computer systems and applications</p>
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<h3>external memory interface; <em>EMIF</em></h3>

<p>interface from a microprocessor to external memories such as flash memory or static RAM</p>
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<h3>external message</h3>

<p>message sent over the message bus</p>
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<h3>external message transfer; <em>EMT</em></h3>

<p>Nokia-proprietary protocol that provides the means for sending and receiving messages between a network element and an external system through TCP/IP connections</p>
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<h3>external monitoring application; <em>EMA</em></h3>

<p>stand-alone application based on the remote method invocation (RMI), which constantly sends keep-alive requests to the service drivers (SD) and checks if the requests come back after a certain timeout period from the keep-alive output of the SDs</p>
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<h3>external parsed entity; <em>external entity</em></h3>

<p>parsed entity which stores its name and a reference to another container that holds its content</p>
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<h3>external PCM</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id03463#id03463" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external PCM circuit</a></p>
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<h3>external PCM circuit; <em>external PCM</em>; <em>ET-PCM</em></h3>

<p>PCM circuit going outward from the exchange, usually a PCM trunk circuit</p>
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<h3>external provisioning system; <em>EPS</em></h3>

<p>software that runs the subscriber user interface (SUI) of Nokia Messaging Gateway</p>
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<h3>external reference clock; <em>ERC</em></h3>

<p>reference clock that sends a synchronisation signal from another device</p>
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<h3>external route; <em>external direction</em></h3>

<p>route where the call is directed if the received digit sequence belongs to the call numbers of another exchange</p>
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<h3>external service creation environment; <em>ESCE</em></h3>

<p>service creation environment external to the home subscriber server (HSS) which a network operator can use to create the services and transfer them to the management data server (MDS) from where the operator can deploy them</p>
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<h3>external service provider; <em>ESP</em></h3>

<p>service provider that is independent of the the service user's organisation</p>
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<h3>external SNMP application; <em>ESA</em></h3>

<p>stand-alone application based on the remote method invocation (RMI), which provides interface towards Nokia Terminal Management Server (NTMS) main instance, external monitoring application (EMA) and other external components of NTMS, and sends alarm notifications to Nokia NetAct</p>
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<h3>external specialised resource point</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020344#id020344" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external SRP</a></p>
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<h3>external SRP; <em>external specialised resource point</em>; <em>ExtSRP</em></h3>

<p>specialised resource point that is used in IN-supported services as an interface towards the subscribers</p>
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<h3>external storage system; <em>storage system</em></h3>

<p>part of database cluster that is used as a central repository for service and customer data</p>
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<h3>external switched circuit group</h3>

<p>switched circuit group consisting of trunk circuits, which is used for transmitting circuit-switched data between exchanges</p>
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<h3>external synonym</h3>

<p>constant of a predefined data type which obtains its value from outside the system</p>
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<h3>external termination point</h3>

<p>link termination point for the transmission on a network interface (user-network interface or network node interface)</p>
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<h3>external test</h3>

<p>test made with the help of a unit of a different type from the unit to be tested</p>
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<h3>external timing</h3>

<p>timing that is based on the use of an external reference clock</p>
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<h3>external unparsed entity; <em>unparsed entity</em></h3>

<p>general entity whose contents may or may not be XML, with an associated notation declaration</p>
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<h3>external update notification; <em>EUN</em></h3>

<p>notification generated by the service control point (SCP) database management software when the database is updated</p>
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<h3>external voucher database interface</h3>

<p>interface to a voucher database from a third party vendor, for example a voucher database residing in a prepaid service node</p>
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<h3>externally-stored program</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id02424#id02424" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See wired program</a></p>
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<h3>extinction ratio; <em>EX</em></h3>

<p>logarithmic relation between a logical "1" and a logical "0"</p>
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<h3>extra filename; <em>alias name</em></h3>

<p>additional name for a file</p>
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<h3>extra SDU delivery probability</h3>

<p>ratio of total (unrequested) extra service data units (SDU) to total service data units received by a destination user in a specified sample</p>
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<h3>extractor</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id0494#id0494" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See mask</a></p>
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<h3>extranet</h3>

<p>information network between organisations, aimed at a limited group of users</p>
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<h3>ExtSRP</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id020344#id020344" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See external SRP</a></p>
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<h3>eye aperture</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06298#id06298" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See eye diagram aperture</a></p>
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<h3>eye diagram; <em>eye pattern</em></h3>

<p>representation resembling human eye, which consists of all possible traces of the potential of a baseband data signal as a function of time</p>
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<h3>eye diagram aperture; <em>eye diagram clearance</em>; <em>eye diagram opening</em>; <em>eye aperture</em></h3>

<p>figure indicating the size of the bright centre of the eye-shaped pattern which has been obtained by measurements of the eye diagram of the receiver</p>
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<h3>eye diagram clearance</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06298#id06298" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See eye diagram aperture</a></p>
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<h3>eye diagram opening</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06298#id06298" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See eye diagram aperture</a></p>
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<h3>eye pattern</h3>

<p><a href="NED?action=retrieve&amp;identifier=general_glossary&amp;edition=13&amp;language=en&amp;coverage=global&amp;encoding=xhtml_1_0&amp;component=data&amp;item=data&amp;pointer=id06218#id06218" onclick="sync(this);return true" shape="rect">See eye diagram</a></p>
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<h3>eye pattern mask; <em>mask for the eye diagram</em>; <em>signal mask for the eye diagram</em></h3>

<p>transmitter pulse shape characteristics such as rise time, fall time, pulse overshoot, pulse undershoot, and ringing, specified in the form of a mask of the transmitter eye diagram</p>
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