96-409 importance of domain names and, 283 analog TV, 397 types of, 281-282 ATSC standards, 403-406 TMN (Telecommunications Management Net- DTV, 390-396, 397-403 work), 487 DVB standards, 406-408 Token hold time, 183 ISDB standards, 408-409 Token passing, 182-183 signal degradation with existing, 390 Token-ring, 181, 182-183 Teleworking, 389 Toll center, 8 Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), 647 Toll office, PSTN, 113 Terabit switch routers, 97, 99 Top-level domains. See TLDs (top-level domains) Terabits per second (Tbps), 99, 457 Topology Broadcast Based on Reverse-Path Terminal mobility, 421 Forwarding (TBRPF), 655 Terminal muxes, 128-129 Total Access Communication System (TACS), Terminals (remote concentrators), 28-29, 117, 331 Terminators, bus topology, 186 Totally stubby area (TSA), 260 Terrestrial DMB (T-DMB), 632-633, 709 Traffic control, IntServ, 441 Terrestrial DTV, 400 Traffic Engineering DiffServ, 261 Testing, fiber optics, 80 Traffic parameters, ATM QoS, 439 TGCP (Trunking Gateway Protocol), 518 Traffic patterns TGn Sync, 646 new types of applications, xxxviii Thermo-optical switches, 467-469 overview of, xxxv-xxxvi Third-generation wireless. See 3G (third-generation) traffic types, xxxvi-xxxviii cellular networks Transaction processing, 151 Three-tiered architecture, 427-432 Transceiver, RFID, 675 TIA/EIA IS-95 standard, 590-591 Transit switch, 8 TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association), Translation, IPv4 to IPv6, 276-277 Transmission channel, 152-154 Tie trunks, 109 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Time Division Duplex. See TDD (Time Division (TCP/IP). See TCP/IP (Transmission Con- Duplex) trol Protocol/Internet Protocol) Index Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), 170, 255 Trunks Transmission lines, 3-10 bus topology and, 186 channels, 6 overview of, 6-9 circuits, 4-7 PSTN access services, 108 defined, 4 TSA (totally stubby area), 260 lines and trunks, 6-9 TTA (Telecommunications Technology Associa- overview of, 3-4 tion), 626 virtual circuits, 9-10 TTC (Telecommunications Te