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Encyclopedia > Burst transmission

In telecommunication, the term burst transmission has the following meanings: Telecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. ...

  1. transmission that combines a very high data signaling rate with very short transmission times - i.e. the message is compressed. This is popular with the military and spies, who wish to minimise the chance of their radio transmissions being detected.
  2. Operation of a data network in which data transmission is interrupted at intervals.

Note: Burst transmission enables communications between data terminal equipment (DTEs) and a data network operating at dissimilar data signaling rates. Synonym data burst. In communications, transmission is the act of transmitting electrical messages (and the associated phenonomena of radiant energy that pass through media). ... In telecommunication, data signaling rate (DSR) is the aggregate rate at which data pass a point in the transmission path of a data transmission system. ... Spy and secret agent redirect here; for alternate use, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). ... The word operation can mean any of several things: The method, act, process, or effect of using a device or system. ... A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... Data transmission is, very generally speaking, the conveyance of any kind of information from one space to another. ... The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication. ... In telecommunication, the term terminal equipment has the following meanings: Communications equipment at either end of a communications link, used to permit the stations involved to accomplish the mission for which the link was established. ...


Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 Federal Standard 1037C entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a U.S. Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. ... MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications. ...


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Burst switching is expected to permit the extraction of new services and bandwidths from the existing plant by moving much of the switching into the plant.
Bursts are sent between switches in time-division multiplexed channels of the span, with succeeding characters of the burst being transmitted in succeeding frames of the span.
Burst transmission - definition of Burst transmission in Encyclopedia (124 words)
This is popular with the military and spies, who wish to minimise the chance of their radio transmissions being detected.
Operation of a data network in which data transmission is interrupted at intervals.
Note: Burst transmission enables communications between data terminal equipment (DTEs) and a data network operating at dissimilar data signaling rates.
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