Great find, Jim.
Another such democratic dictionary exists at the TechWeb site. techweb.com
This one that you've point out looks far more comprehensive, tho. I checked out a few esoteric terms from aways back, and sure enough they were in there. The only thing that it's missing is a graphic capability for illustrative purposes (unless I missed something, but I couldn't find any).
For example, I just looked up "phantom circuit," for which the glossary gave an adequate description for me, but I already know what one is. You try it, and let me know if you understand what it's saying without having to read it several times.
[[By the way, phantom circuits may be coming back in a most uncharacteristic way. Anyone know what I'm referring to? I'll tell you. IP phones which will be supported over Ethernet links face a huge challenge because these links do not carry power leads. A way around this is to introduce power on the center-taps of Ethernet interface coils at the distribution closet end, say positive on the transmit and negative on the receive, which would be carried to the desk where they terminate in a reciprocol center-tap arrangement.
Of course, two copper pairs are required for this, which is what we have now with 802.3 Ethernet, anyway. The alternative to this centertap phantom arrangement is to install individual power packs at every desk. Or, to run a separate power feed from the closet over another cable pair. Well, this is not exactly the full personification of phantomry, but that's what the voip-in-the-enterprise guys are calling it today. FWIW.]]
Thanks. It's bookmarked.
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