Used in Ethernet protocol. The organization created, in 1981, to promote the cellular industry, address the common concerns of cellular carriers and serve as a forum for the exchange of nonproprietary information. A technical term indicating that stray signals from other wavelengths, channels, communication pathways, or twisted-pair wiring have polluted the signal. A symptom of interference caused by two cell sites causing competing signals to be received by the mobile subscriber. This can also by generated by two mobiles causing competing signals that are received by the cellular base station.
Crosstalk sounds like two conversations and often a distortion of one or the other or both.
Carrier Sense Multiple Access With Collision Avoidance . Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association . Data Compression A reduction in the size of data by exploiting redundancy. Many modems incorporate MNP5 or V.42bis protocols to compress data before it is sent over the phone line. A value expressed in decibels is determined as 10 times the logarithm of the value taken to base 10.