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

• The use of signals for controlling communications.
• In a telecommunications network, the information exchange concerning the establishment and control of a connection and the management of the network, in contrast to user information transfer.
• The sending of a signal from the transmitting end of a circuit to inform a user at the receiving end that a message is to be sent.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication. ... A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... Information is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is as a rule closely related to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... A telecommunication circuit is defined as follows: The complete path between two terminals over which one-way or two-way communications may be provided. ... In telecommunications, information transfer is the process of moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink. ... A signal may refer to: an abstract element of information, or, more exactly, usually a flow of information (in either one or several dimensions). ... There are many kinds of circuit An electric circuit interconnects electrical elements. ... Message in its most general meaning is the object of communication. ... 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. ...