Technologies

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General

Hill Associates Acronym List
A home-grown listing of acronyms used in telephony, networking, telecommunications, and many areas of computer science.

International Engineering Consortium
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to catalyzing positive change in the information industry and its university communities.

Telecom Glossary

Line-Man.com
LINE-MAN.COM was created by two industry professionals who have bridged a multitude of Utility Linemen, Managers, Engineers, Safety Personel, Make Ready Specialists, Splicing/Activation Teams and Maintenance Personnel into a common web site. We've climbed, built, spliced, maintained, mapped and designed plant for some of America's best known communications networks.

ADC - The Broadband Company
ADC's fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services make broadband communications a reality worldwide by enabling communications service providers to deliver high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services to consumers and businesses.

B&B Electronics
With an inventory of over 400 different data transfer products, B&B Electronics is committed to providing the best communications solutions for business and industry. B&B products have been selected for every possible application, from student experiments to NASA outer space installations.

Black Box Network Services
This site contains an extensive catalog of infrastructure solutions.

Durham Radio
Sales and service from "Canada's Complete Communications Store".

kei telecommunications
Delivering powerful, one-stop solutions to small, medium, and large businesses throughout the United States, KEI Telecommunications provides the highest quality structured cabling, wireless networking, and telephony services that will keep you far ahead of your competition.

Analysys Telecoms Virtual Library
Analysys has maintained the Telecoms Virtual Library, a unique collection of links to other telecoms sites worldwide and part of the World Wide Web Consortium Virtual Library, since 1994.

Telecom Information Resources
This document contains references to information sources relating to the technical, economic, public policy, and social aspects of telecommunications. All forms of telecommunication, including, voice, data, video, wired, wireless, cable TV, and satellite, are included. The intent is to provide "high-level" pointers to other WWW servers, with a brief description of the type of information.

A Collection of Smith Chart Resources
The Smith Chart was originally created many years ago as an RF engineering aid by Phillip Smith of RCA. The Chart is a clever, complex number nomograph in a circular format.

Exploring the Secrets of the Smith Chart
An article appeared in the January, 1939 issue of Electronics that changed forever the way radio engineers think about transmission lines. Phil Smith devised an extraordinarily clever circular chart that revealed graphically the complex impedance anywhere along a line. The chart also functioned as a units converter. No math and minimum fuss. There's a marvelous symmetry in it's design - everything fits together neatly. So ingenious was his invention that it has been the standard of the industry - for over fifty years.

Networking

TCP/IP & Networking Links
Collected by NCTT's Executive Director, Gordon Snyder

Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) FAQ v20010108
This FAQ will attempt to explain the intricacies of Digital Subscriber Line technologies (xDSL) and answer some of the most common questions relating to xDSL services. Although this FAQ contains technical information, it is best used as an introduction to xDSL services.

Bell Labs Networking Research Laboratory
The Networking Research Lab does research in the underlying technologies for the next generation global information infrastructure. Current research encompasses a broad spectrum of activities, including protocols, switches, routers, control, signaling, software and hardware, for both wireless and wireline networks.

Photonics

The New England Fiber Optics Council
"Committed to the promotion of the regional fiberoptic industry and the dissemination of information about fiber optics to the general public."

Newport Corporation
The company is the leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor of precision components and systems used for development and application of laser and optical technologies, supporting not only advanced research, but also sophisticated new technology and industrial applications. Its products and expertise are increasingly used in semiconductor manufacturing and testing, fiber optic communications and other commercial applications that require ever increasing higher-precision and tighter tolerances.

The Fiber Optic Marketplace
This site includes a buyer's guide, business opportunities and a job market.

Optics 2001
A free access on-line optical library containg a large amount of information and resources

Optics.org
The online photonics resource.

Corning Optical Fiber Library
Corning offers a range of optical fiber products designed to perform in a variety of applications, including long-haul, submarine, metro, access and premises, and leads the telecommunications industry in the development of new fiber designs.

Optics Highlights
An Anecdotal History of Optics from Aristophanes to Zernike

Fiber Optics Online
A premier information source for the Fiber Optics industry. Find products and suppliers, read current headlines, and keep up with the latest information in your professional community through featured resources.

The Fundamentals of Optics
As you can see from the dictionary definition above, the study of optics falls into three general categories: light itself, what it is and how it behaves; How we perceive light through the sense of sight; and how light can be manipulated through such processes as reflection and refraction. Although we talk of these categories as if they were separate and distinct, actually the whole reality of sight and vision constantly involves all of these categories in various combinations.

VPI Systems
VPI makes enterprise class software systems that support technical workforces across the bandwidth value chain: access service providers, network operators, multinational equipment vendors and component and system manufacturers.

Photonics.com
Worldwide Coverage of Optics, Lasers, Imaging, Fiber Optics, Electro-Optics and Optoelectronics

Sinclair Optics
OSLO is software used by scientists and engineers to design lenses, reflectors, optical instruments, laser collimators, and illumination systems. It is also used for simulation and analysis of optical systems using both geometrical and physical optics. In addition to optical design and analysis, OSLO provides a complete technical software development system including interactive graphics, math, and database libraries. There is a free version of OSLO intended for educational use, which can be downloaded from this web site.

Sony Optical Communications
Products from the Semiconductor Solutions Division include ultra-high speed Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) as well as a diverse selection of products targeted to the audio, video and communication markets. These include data communications, TV and audio ICs; digital filters; CCD sensors; serial/optical communication ICs; GPS and cellular/PCS ICs; multimedia ICs and modules. Discrete components include laser diodes and variable capacitance diodes.

Fairchild Semiconductor Optoelectronics
Product listings

ILDA Laser Glossary
The ILDA Laser Glossary is for two audiences. The first is ILDA members' clients, who may be new to laser display technology. The list describes common terms used in sales literature, show preparation, and contractual agreements. The second audience is ILDA members themselves. The Glossary standardizes concepts which formerly had different names ("cell" and "frame") and sets terms for new products ("PCAOM").

Wireless

Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
The CRTC is an independent agency responsible for regulating Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications systems. We report to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage.

Radiocommunications Agency
The Radiocommunications Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department of Trade and Industry . We are responsible for the management of the non-military radio spectrum in the UK, which involves international representation, commissioning research, allocating spectrum and licensing its use, and keeping the radio spectrum clean.

Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.

Integrated Microwave
Low Cost, Custom Ceramic Filters, Diplexers and Resonators for Wireless Applications, IF/RF/Microwave Filters for Commercial and Military Applications

RF Specialties Group
The RF SPECIALTIES GROUP is among the foremost distributors of radio broadcasting equipment in the United States, with ten offices across the country. We supply the broadcast industry with a full range of audio and RF equipment by over 200 manufacturers.

Amateur Radio Reference
A strong collection of online resources

Global Wireless Education Consortium
The Global Wireless Education Consortium, or GWEC (pronounced GeeWec), is a collaboration of wireless industry companies and academic institutions.

Broadcast Net
The Broadcast Industry's Homepage

Doug Lung's RF Technology Page
Focusing on TV RF Broadcast Technology...

Cellular Telephones
Within these pages you'll learn about cell phones and how they work. You start out with a non-technical description that contains no mumbo-jumbo or jargon at all. Throughout these pages, you can delve into more detail if you want.

The Cell Site
A general information page for the digital mobile telephone industry, as well as the home of Cordero Consulting

Glossary of Radio Terms
From Mason Electronics, UK

WirelessWeek Glossary
To help keep up with the changes in the words our industry uses every day, Wireless Week, with participation by Scott Goldman, compiled this Wireless Dictionary. Besides technical and business terms, the glossary also includes some financial and legal usage often found in the pages of Wireless Week.

BitCentral Satellite Terminology
BitCentral is a leading provider of digital media content management and distribution solutions, and has pioneered many Internet over satellite applications. BitCentral combines proven broadcast and network computing technologies to enable end-to-end all digital workflows.

Mobile Data Initiative
MDI-ng is the new Wireless Internet Initiative formed by industry leaders. It offers a unique opportunity to identify potential problems and solve them at an early stage. By looking at end to end solutions the group will help facilitate usage models, create forums for interoperability tests and roll out recommended solutions.

Amateur Radio Related Web Sites
A nice collection of resources

Spread Spectrum Communications
Spread Spectrum Communications (SS for short) is a mostly digital communications technology that was originally developed during World War II. First used for "Secret" military communications and later for Radar countermeasures, SS has been improved, honed, refined and applied to a wide variety of even consumer based applications. SS systems like GPS (Global Positioning System) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANS) are being used by literally millions of people today.

Wireless Directory
from HandiLinks

Internet Resources on Wireless Technologies
Another collection of links

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This material is based on work
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National Science Foundation
under Grant Number DUE 0302548.

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