REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

MINISTRY OF POWER FOR THE DEFENSE

EXPERIMENTAL POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
ARMED FORCES. CHUAO-CARACAS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS. II SEMESTER. SECTION N-01

Glossary of technical terms relating to Telecommunications Engineering

Teacher Ayaris Vaamondes

Student:
Suescn Brbara
ID.V.- 17390650

Caracas, december 2014

1.- ADSL (Lnea de Suscripcin Digital Asimtrica): Asymmetric Digital

Subscriber Line. Digital data transmission (the transmission is analog) supported in
symmetrical copper pair carrying the conventional telephone line or subscriber line,
provided that the extent not exceeding 5.5 km. Measured from the telephone
exchange, or no other services in the same cable that may interfere.

2.-

Amateur

Radio

(Radioaficin):

Is

service

of

the

International

Telecommunication Union which is: "The self-training, intercommunication and

technical investigations carried out by amateurs, that is, by duly authorized persons
interested in radio engineering, as a matter exclusively personal and nonprofit.

3.- Analog Communication (Comunicacin Analgica): is that which occurs in a

nonverbal way.

4.- Analog Signal (Seal Analgica): Is a type of signal generated by some kind
of

electromagnetic

phenomenon

and

is

representable

by

continuous

mathematical function that varies the amplitude and period (representing a data
item) versus time.

5.- Antenna (Antena): Is a (metallic conductor) device designed with the aim of
transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves into free space

6.- Bandwidth (Ancho de Banda): Is the length, measured in Hz, of the frequency
range in which most of the signal power is concentrated.

7.- Broadcast (Difusin): Is a form of transmission where a transmitter node

sends information to a multitude of receiving nodes simultaneously, without
reproducing the same node transmitting node.

8.- Channel (Canal): Middle of communication used for the exchange of

information.

9.- Coaxial Cable (Cable Coaxial): Cable is used to carry high frequency
electrical signals having two concentric conductors, a center, called active,
responsible for keeping the information, and an outer, tubular appearance, called
mesh, armor or braid, which serves ground reference and current return.

10.- Coding (Codificar): State a message using a certain code words, letters,
numbers or symbols.

11.- Communication (Comunicacin): Is any information exchanged or conveyed

between a finite number of parties by means of a telecommunications service
available to the public. Not included in this definition the driven information as part
of a broadcasting service to the public, through a telecommunications network,
except to the extent that the information can be related to the identifiable
subscriber or user receiving the information.

12.- Communication Protocol (Protocolo de Comunicacin): A set of rules and

standards that allow two or more entities of a communication system communicate
with each other to transmit information through any variation of a physical quantity.

13.- Communications satellites (Satlites de Comunicaciones): Are very

capable of emitting radio signals in large or undeveloped areas, because they can
be used as huge antennas suspended from heaven medium.

14.- Computer Network (Red de Ordenadores): Is a set of computer hardware

and software connected together by means of physical devices that send and
receive electrical impulses, electromagnetic waves or other means for transporting
data, in order to share information, resources and offer services.

15.- Computer Science (Informtica): is a science that studies methods,

processes, techniques to store, process and transmit information and data in digital
format.

16.- Core (Troncal): communications network can be used to connect circuits

between switches, or for forming an interconnection between network switches.

17.- Digital Communications (Comunicaciones Digitales): That transmits

information through symbols.

18.- Digital Multi (Mltiple Digital): Composite signal to transmit a radio

frequency or channel and that by using digital technology allows the incorporation
of the signals corresponding to various TV channels and signals corresponding to
various associated services and electronic communications services.

19.- Digital Sampling (Muestreo Digital): Is one of the parts of the process of
digitizing the signals. It involves taking samples of an analog signal to a frequency
or constant sampling rate to quantify later.

20.- Electrical Engineering (Electrotecnia): Technical concerning the practical

applications of electricity.

21.- Electricity (Electricidad): Is the set of physical phenomena related to the

presence and flow of electric charges.

22.- Electromagnetic field (Campo electromagntico): A physical field, type

tensor produced by those elements electrically charged, which affects charged
particles.

23.- Electromagnetic radiation (Radiacin Electromagntica): Is a combination

of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, which propagate through space carrying
energy from one place to another.

24.- Electronics (Electrnica): The branch of physics and engineering expertise,

which studies and uses systems whose operation is based on driving and
controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles.

25.-

Electronic

circuits

(Circuitos

Electrnicos):

power

supply

(interconnection of two or more components, such as resistors, inductors,

capacitors, springs, switches and semiconductors) containing at least one closed
path.

26.- Electronic filter (Filtro Electrnico): Is an element that discriminates a

certain frequency or frequency range of an electric signal passing through it, being
able to modify both the amplitude and phase.

27.- Emission (Clase

de

Emisin):

Character set

depending on

the

characteristics of an issue, namely, type of modulation of the main carrier, nature

of the modulating signal, type of information to be transmitted, as well as, if
applicable, any other characteristics; each class is designated by a set of standard
symbols.

28.- Facts (Datos): is a (numerical, alphabetical, algorithms, space, etc) symbolic

representation of an attribute or variable quantitative or qualitative.

29.- Feeding (Abonado): User subscribed to a telecommunications service.

30.- Fiber Optic (Fibra ptica): Is a transmission medium, usually employed in

data networks, consisting of a very fine thread of transparent material, glass or
plastics, for which light pulses that represent data to be transmitted is sent.

31.- Filters (Filtros): Devices that allow the passage of certain signal frequencies
but prevent the passage of others. They are used to tune (demux) channels on a
radio or television, for example.

32.- Frequency (Frecuencia): Is a quantity that measures the number of

repetitions per unit time of any event or recurring event.

33.-

Frequency Spectrum (Espectro de Frecuencia): Characterized by the

distribution of amplitudes for each frequency of a wave phenomenon (sound, light

or electromagnetic) which is superposition of waves of various frequencies.

34.- Globalization (Globalizacin): An economic, technological, social and

cultural planetary scale process of increasing communication and interdependence
among countries of the world uniting their markets, societies and cultures, through
a series of social, economic and policies that give them global.

35.- Information (Informacin): Is an organized set of processed data that

constitute a message that changes the state of knowledge of the subject or system
that receives the message.

36.- Internet: the 'network of networks', the set of a large number of

communication and computer networks interconnected in a decentralized and
voluntary.

37.- Interpolation (Interpolacin): Obtaining new points from knowledge of a

discrete set of points.

38.- Issuers (Emisores): Is the part of the system that encodes and sends the
message. It may be an antenna, a computer, a telephone.

39.- Line Carrier (Onda Portadora): It is a generally sine wave, modified in some
of its parameters (amplitude, frequency or phase) for an entry called modulating
signal in order to transmit information.

40.- Linear Systems (Sistemas Lineales): A set of linear equations (ie, a system
of equations, where each equation is of first degree), defined on a body or a
commutative ring.

41.- Magnetism (Magnetismo): Is a physical phenomenon whereby objects exert

forces of attraction or repulsion over other materials.

42.- Microwave (Microondas): Electromagnetic waves; generally between 300

MHz and 300 GHz, representing oscillation unperodo 3 ns (3 10-9 s) to 3 ps (3 x
10-12 s) and a wavelength in the range of 1 m to 1 mm.

43.- Microwave radio (Radiocomunicacin por microondas): Refers to the

transmission of data or through radio frequency energy with wavelengths of
microwave type.

44.- Mobile Phone (Telfono Mvil): Consists of two parts: a communication

network and terminals that allow access to that network.

45.- Modulation (Modulacin): Encompassing all the techniques used to carry

information over a carrier wave, typically a sine wave.

46.- Multiplexers (Multiplexores): Are combinational circuits with multiple inputs

and a single output data are provided with control inputs able to select one, and
only one, of the data inputs to allow transmission from the selected input to said
outlet.
47.- Multiplexing (Multiplexacin): Is the combination of two or more channels of
information in a single transmission medium using a device called a multiplexer.

48.- Network (Redes): Iis a process that allows the connection of equipment:
sharing resources, remote communication, optimizes the use of equipment. Every
network consists of: node or terminal, middle transmission interconnection.

49.- Next Generation Network (Red de siguiente Generacin): Is a broad term

that refers to the evolution of the current infrastructure of telecommunications
networks and dial with the aim of achieving technological convergence of new
multimedia services (voice, data, video ...) in the next 5-10 years.

50.- Packet switching (Conmutacin de paquetes): Is a method of sending data

in a computer network.

51.- Physics Magnitude (Magnitud Fsica): Is a measurable property or quality

of a physical system, which can be assigned different values as a result of a
measurement or a list of measures.

52.- Propagation (Propagacin): Set of physical events leading to the waves

from transmitter to receiver.

53.- Programming (Programacin):

Is the process of designing, coding,

debugging and maintaining the source code of computer programs.

54.-

Radiocommunication

(Radiocomunicacin):

Is

form

of

telecommunication is performed through radio waves or radio waves, which in turn

is characterized by the movement of electric fields and magnetic fields.

55.-

Radioelectricity (Radioelectricidad): Technical production, transmission

and reception of sounds and images by means of electromagnetic waves.

56.- Radiofrequency (Radiofrecuencia): Applied to the lower energy portion of

the electromagnetic spectrum, between about 3 Hz and about 300 GHz

57.- Receptors (Receptores): Is any device capable of receiving a message and

extract information from him. Is the case of a radio, a television.

58.- Repeaters (Repetidores): These are devices that amplify the signal that
reaches them, so that you can establish communications over long distances.

59.- Routers (Encaminadores): These are devices that allow you to choose at all
times which is the most appropriate way for network frames reach their destination
in a network with TCP / IP support.

60.- Scalability (Escalabilidad): Is a desirable property of a system, a network or

a process, indicating its ability to react and adapt without losing quality or handle
the continued growth of work fluidly, or to be prepared to get bigger without losing
quality of services offered.

61.- Soundwave (Onda sonora): A longitudinal wave transmitting which is

associated with sound.

62.- Submarine Cable (Cable submarine): Is that copper or fiber optic installed
on the seabed and intended primarily for telecommunications services.

63.- Switches (Conmutadores): These devices each frame network routed to

your destination on a network of computers.

64.- Switching circuit (Conmutacin de Circuitos): Is a type of connection that

perform different nodes of a network to achieve an appropriate way to connect two
users in a telecommunications network.

65.- Technological Convergence (Convergencia Tecnolgica): The tendency of

different technological systems in the evolution towards performing similar tasks.

66.- Technology (Tecnologa): It is the set of scientifically arranged, expertise for

designing and creating goods and services that facilitate adaptation to the
environment and satisfying the essential needs and wants of mankind.

67.- Telecommunications (Telecominicacin): It is all transmission and

reception of signals of any kind, typically electromagnetic, containing signs,
sounds, images or, ultimately, any information you want to communicate at a
distance.

68.- Telecommunication network (Red de Telecomunicacin): Is the set of all

the necessary systems for the exchange of information between system users.

69.- Telematics (Telemtica): A scientific and technological discipline, caused by

the convergence of telecommunications technologies and computer.

70.- Terminal (Terminal): Also known as console, is an electronic or

electromechanical device used to interact with a computer.

71.- Tokens (Seales): Is a sign, a gesture or other that informs or warns of

something. The signal thus replaced the written word or speech.

72.- Transfer Rate (Tasa de Transferencia): The amount of information it

receives or sends the server over a month.

73.- Transmission (Transmisin): Tthe physical transfer of data (a digital

bitstream) for a communication channel point to point or point to multipoint.

74.- Transmission Methods (Mtodos de Transmisin): The physical medium

through which data is transmitted, either wired (guiding means) or wireless (mean
unguided).

75.- Transmission System (Sistema de Trensmisin): Any system that allows

establishing communication through it.

76.- Twisted pair (Cable de Par trenzado): consists of two insulated copper
wires that are intertwined helical shape as a DNA molecule.

77.- WAN:

Wide Area Network (Red de rea Amplia): Type of computer

network capable of covering distances from 100 km, until about 1000 km, giving
service to a country or continent. An example of such networks would Internet.

78.- Wavelength (Longitud de Onda): Is the actual distance a disturbance (a

wave) in a given time interval.

79.- Wireless communication (Comunicacin Inalmbrica): Is one in which the

communication (transmitter / receiver) is not attached by means of physical
propagation, modulation but using electromagnetic waves through space.

80.- WWW: World Global Network (Red Global Mundial): System hypertext
documents and / or linked and accessible via the Internet hypermedia. With a Web
browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos or other
multimedia contents, and browse through them using hyperlinks.