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Outage: The measure of the time during which a circuit is not available for use due to service interrupt. Outage is the complement of circuit
"availability" (100% minus % available = % outage).
Out-of-band: Signaling that is separated from the channel carrying the information (i.e., the voice/data/video signal is separate from the
carrier signal). Dialing and various other "supervisory" signals are included in the signaling element. Contrast "In-band" signaling.
Out of Frame (OOF): A T1 alarm condition that is logged on the loss of 2, 3 or 4 of 5 consecutive FT framing bits.
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Packet: 1. In data communication, a sequence of binary digits, including data and control signals, that is transmitted and switched as a
composite whole. The data, control signals and, possibly, error control information are arranged in a specific format. 2. Synonymous with data
frame. 3. In TCP/IP, the unit of data passed across the interface between the Internet layer and the link layer. A packet includes an IP header
and data. A packet can be a complete IP datagram or a fragment of an IP diagram. 4. In X.25, a data transmission information unit. A group
of data and control characters, transferred as a unit, determined by the process of transmission. Commonly used data field lengths in packets
are 128 or 256 bytes. 5. The field structure and format defined in the CCITT X.25 recommendation.
Packet Assembler/Dissembler (PAD): Used by devices to communicate over X.25 networks by building or stripping X.25 information on or
from a packet.
Packet Data: The information format ("packetized") used for packet-mode calls.
Packet Mode: Refers to the switching of chunks of information for different users using statistical multiplexing to send them over the same
transmission facility.
Parity bit: An extra bit attached to each byte of synchronous data used to detect errors in transmission.
PBX (Private Branch Exchange): A phone exchange located on the customer's premises. The PBX provides a circuit switching facility for
phone extension lines within the building, and access to the public phone network. See also "Exchange".
Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC): A connection between two endpoints dedicated to a single user. In ISDN, PVCs are established by
network administration and are held for as long as the user subscribes to the service.
Physical Unit (PU): The component that manages and monitors the resources (such as attached links and adjacent link stations) associated
with a node, as requested by an SSCP via an SSCP-PU session. An SSCP activates a session with the physical unit in order to indirectly
manage, through the PU, resources of the node such as attached links. This term applies to type 2.0, type 4, and type 5 nodes only.
Point-of-Presence (POP): The central office's end points of the long distance carriers.
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP): A protocol that lets a PC user access TCP/IP (Internet member) using an ISDN terminal adapter or a high-
speed modem over a standard phone line.
Port: A location for input or output data exchange. Computers, muxes, etc. have ports for various purposes.
PRI (Primary Rate Interface): Used on ISDN. In North America, and Japan, PRI is one 64Kbps D channel and 23 B channels. Elsewhere, it
is one D channel and 30 B channels. PRI is the ISDN equivalent of a T-1 circuit.
Primitive: An abstract representation of interaction across the access points indicating that information is being passed between the service
user and the service provider. The OSI Reference Model defines four types of primitives: Request, Indication, Response and Confirm.
PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory - pronounced "prom"): A permanent memory chip that can be programmed or filled by the
customer after by the manufacturer has set initial values. Contrast with ROM.
Protocol: 1. A set of semantic and syntactic rules that determines the behavior of functional units in achieving communication. 2. In Open
Systems Interconnection architecture, a set of semantic and syntactic rules that determine the behavior of entities in the same layer in
performing communication functions. 3. In SNA, the meanings of and the sequencing rules for requests and responses used for managing the
network, transferring data, and synchronizing the states of network components. 4. Synonymous with line control discipline.
PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network): A worldwide public voice phone network that is used as a telecommunications medium for
the transmission of voice, data and other information.
Public Data Network (PDN): A packet-switched network that is available to the public for individual ("subscriber") use. Typically, controlled
by a government or a national monopoly.
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN): The group of circuit-switching voice carriers, which are commonly used as analog data
communications services.
Pulse Code Modulation (PCM): 1. In data communication, variation of a digital signal to represent information; for example, by means of
pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), pulse duration modulation (PDM), or pulse position modulation (PPM). 2. Transmissions of analog
information in digital form through sampling and encoding the samples with a fixed number of bits.
Pulse dialing: One of two methods of dialing a phone, usually associated with rotary-dial phones. Compare with "tone dialing".