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Communications Data and Telecommunications, terms, concepts and abbreviations. (19 terms) T1 CLFI name for a Digital Signal 1 (DS1) a transmission line with bandwidth sufficient to carry 24 DS0 (64 or 56 Kbps depending on coding) channels. Because of overhead a T1 being delivered by a provider for data communications usually provides 1.344Mbps of bandwidth, whereas the T1 consumes 1.544Mbps of bandwidth. With B8ZS coding the T1 can provide 1.536MBps of bandwidth (this has become common in modern networks) The T1 was frequently thought of as the basic building block in Telecommunic...	Computer Hardware Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts. (6 terms) PCB It usually consists of a metallic conductor pattern on an epoxy glass composite insulating substrate, more complex circuits have several layers stacked togeather. After assembly where components are added, it is known as a printed wiring assembly (PWA).
Graphic Design Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing. (14 terms) DPI A measure of image resolution - typical screen resolution is 72 dip whereas printing presse print at 300dpi. When measuring the resolution of an image you need to know both the physical size and the resolution (in DPI) to acertain the actual amount of data. For example: An image that is 10 inches wide... at 72dpi would be 720 pixels wide at 300dpi would be 3000 pixels wide (roughly 3.5 times the resolution)	Linux Linux/Unix Terms and Commands. (9 terms) TCP Used in conjunction with the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit information over the Internet in the form of units. While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet. For example, when a web page is downloaded from a web server, the TCP program layer in that server divides the file into packets, numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the ...
Photography Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques. (11 terms) Zoom Lens A lens of variable focal length. For example, in an 50-500mm Zoom Lens, the focal length can be vaired between the lower limit of 50mm and the upper of 500mm. This affects the scale of the image on which the lens is focused without throwing the image out of focus.	Web Design Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations. (46 terms) HTTP A set of detailed rules for communication between a client and server. This protocol is the foundation of data transmission on the www

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