Class Telecommunications

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1. TA

   A TA interfaces the ISDN line with communications equipment, typically performing digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital conversions for analogue telephone, fax, or modem equipment, and digital data rate adaptation for computers.

2. TAPI

   A standard program interface that lets you and your computer. Under TAPI, it's possible to change devices, for example, and not have to re-configure every piece of software to work with it.

3. TCP

   TCP/IP A protocol used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of individual units (called packets) between computers over the Internet. Whereas IP handles the actual delivery of the data, TCP keeps track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet

4. TDM

   A scheme in which numerous signals are combined for transmission on a single communications line or channel. Each signal is broken up into many segments, each having very short duration