pti- TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code cal Network. See SDH/SONET (Synchro- Division Multiple Access), 600, 606 nous Digital Hierarchy/Synchronous TDD (Time Division Duplex) Optical Network) TD-CDMA, 605 Synchronous infrastructure, 127 with UWC, 590 Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), 17 WiMax using, 622 Synchronous transmission, 162-165 TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) Synchronous Transport Module (STM), 126 limitations of, 462 Synchronous Transport Signal (STS), 126 MSPPs incorporating, 473 overview of, 26-27 in TDMA, 567 T-carrier system TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) backbone for WANs, 206-211 CDPD for, 583-584 E-carrier VS., 122 EDGE for, 595-596 overview of, 15-16 GERAN enhancement for, 596 Robbed Bit Signaling in, 121 PDC based on, 592 signal hierarchy in, 120-122 power control schemes in, 570 standards, 115 in spectrum reuse, 567 T-DMB (Terrestrial DMB), 632-633, 709 UWC for, 590 TACS (Total Access Communication System), Telcos, 400-401 Telecom Essentials Learning Center, xxiv Tags, RFID Telecom WebCentral, xxiv defining, 674-675 Telecommunications Act of 1997, 33 future of, 682-683 Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), how RFID system works, 675-676 Index Telecommunications Management Network Time Division Multiple Access. See TDMA (Time (TMN), 487 Division Multiple Access) Telecommunications Technology Association Time Division Multiplexing. See TDM (Time Divi- (TTA), 626 sion Multiplexing) Telecommunications Technology Committee Time Division Synchronous Code Division (TTC), 38 Multiple Access (TD-SCMA), 600, 606 Telecoms and Internet converged Services & Proto- Time domain (predictive) coders, 324 cols for Advanced Networks (TISPAN), TISPAN (Telecoms and Internet converged Services 425, 696 & Protocols for Advanced Networks), 425, Teleimmersion, xlvii-xlviii Telemedicine, 78 TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol), 647 Telephony Applications Programming Interface TLDs (top-level domains) (TAPI), 319 DNS and, 281 Telephony hybrid, 160 IANA working with, 250 Television standards, 3