duplex

1. Two-way, or duplex, transmission over a single physical circuit. Duplex transmission can be either half-duplex or full duplex in nature, depending on the communications protocol. Half-duplex transmission is in both directions, but only one direction at a time. Full duplex transmission is simultaneous

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• Table T-2: TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• Table V-1: Electromagnetic Signal Propagation Velocity (Approximate)
• Table V-2: Vertical Redundancy Check (VRC)
• Table V-3: Selected ITU-T V-Series Recommendations
• Table W-1: ITU-T Transmission Windows
• Table X-1: DSL Technology Comparisons
• Table X-2: ITU-T X Series Recommendation Groups
• Table X-3: Select X Series Recommendations
• TACS (Total Access Communications System)
• Tagged Image File Format-Fax (TIFF-F)
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
• tail circuit
• talk battery
• talk path
• tandem switch
• tap
• TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface)
• taps
• tariff
• TASI (Time-Assignment Speech Interpolation)
• TA (Terminal Adapter)
• Tbps
• TB (TeraByte)
• T-carrier
• T-carrier