Fiber Optic Technology
Fiber to the x is a collective term for various optical fiber delivery topologies that are categorized according to where the fiber terminates. This is commonly referred to as?
What is FTTx
Installation & Repair is commonly referred to as?
I&R
In civilian telecommunications, a term which refers to all of the physical cabling and supporting infrastructure (such as conduit, cabinets, tower or poles), and any associated hardware (such as repeaters) located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching center or customer premises is called?
What is outside plant
Accounts receivable is the balance of money due to a firm for goods or services delivered or used but not yet paid for by customers. This common accounting term is referenced as?
What is A/R?
A television system in which the video signals are transmitted from one or more cameras by cable to a restricted set of monitors.
What is Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)
The layer which surrounds the core of a fiber. The cladding is slightly less transparent than the core, and reflects light back into the core
What is Cladding
A gigabit passive optical network is a point-to-multipoint access network. Its main characteristic is the use of passive splitters in the fiber distribution network, enabling one single feeding fiber from the provider to serve multiple homes and small businesses. The type of network is commonly referred to as?
What is GPON
All the cabling and equipment installed in a telecommunications facility, including the main distribution frame (MDF) and all the equipment extending inward therefrom, such as PABX or central office equipment, MDF heat coil protectors, and grounding systems.
Inside Plant
A profit and loss statement, also known as an income statement, is a financial report that displays your total income, total costs (what you pay to produce your product or perform your service), total expenses (what you pay in overhead), and net income for any given time period. It's commonly referred to as?
P&L's
A means of controlling who enters a location and when?
What is access control
An optical time-domain reflectometer is an optoelectronic instrument used to characterize an optical fiber. This instrument is commonly referred to as?
What is an OTDR
Digital Subscriber Lines allow users to get a high speed bandwidth connection from a phone wall jack on an existing telephone network. This type of service is commonly referred to as?
DSL
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a large regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. This organization is commonly referred to as?
OSHA
Accounts Payable is a liability due to a particular creditor when it order goods or services without paying in cash up front, which means that you bought goods on credit. In accounting terms, this is commonly abbreviated as?
AP
A formula used to calculate the relationship between voltage, current and resistance in an electrical circuit.
What is OHM'S Law
In what year was Fiber Optic Cable invented?
1952
In what year was the telephone invented? By Who?
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
A request for a proposal is received is directly from contacts or through public bid portals. It is commonly referred to as an?
What is RFP
When buyers are eligible to receive a 2% discount on trade credit if the amount due is paid within 10 days is reference as?
2/10 net 30
A passive electrical component to create resistance in the flow of electric current
What is a resistor
In what year was fiber optic cable first used?
In April 1977, General Telephone and Electronics tested and deployed the world's first live telephone traffic through a fiber-optic system running at 6 Mbps, in Long Beach, California
An independent agency of the United States government established by the Communications Act of 1934
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Computer-aided drafting utilizes computer systems and software for designing buildings. This software is commonly referred to as?
What is CAD?
An accounting software package developed and marketed by Intuit
What is Quickbooks
Black, Brown Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White are color bands found on what type of electronic component?
What is a resistor?