Vocabulary of Terms for Broadband Aspects of ISDN - Series I: Integrated Services Digital Network General Structure - Terminology (Study Group 13; 33 pp)
This Recommendation consists primarily of those terms and definitions that are considered essential to the understanding and application of the principles of broadband aspects of the integrated services digital network (B-ISDN). They are not exclusive to B-ISDN and are recommended also for application, in so far as they are relevant, to other types of telecommunication networks.Included are terms that may already be defined in other ITU-TATU-R Recommendations. However,the definitions given here embrace only the essential concepts and on that basis it is considered that they are not inconsistent with the more specialized definitions that appear in those Recommendations.According to the conventions applied in this Recommendation,any term in common usage, but whose use is deprecated, is shown in brackets as in the following example: "broadband [wideband]".Where a truncated term is widely used in an understood context the complete term is quoted following the colloquial form, for example, "contribution, contribution application".Some definitions include terms in italics face to indicate that these terms are defined elsewhere in this Recommendation.Annex A contains an alphabetical list of all the terms contained in this Recommendation.Annex B contains a list of abbreviations which are used in B-ISDN Recommendations.