电信专业英英词典W, X, Y, Z（在线收听）

　　WAN

　　wide area network

　　WARC

　　World Administrative Radio Consortium

　　WATS

　　Wide-area telecommunications services. See Wide-area telecommunications services.

　　Waveform

　　amplitude (magnitude) versus time representation of signals.

　　Wide-Area Telecommunications Services (WATS)

　　WATS is a service permitting customers to make (OUTWATS) or receive (INWATS) long distance voice or data calls and to have them billed on a bulk rather than an individual call basis. The service is provided by means of special private access lines connected to WATS equipped central offices. A single access line permits inward or outward service but not both.

　　Wink-Start

　　Wink-Start is a supervisory signal that consists of an off-hook followed by an on-hook signal, exchanged between two switching systems. The wink-start signal is generated by the called switch to indicate to the calling switch that it is ready to receive address signal digits.

　　WO

　　Work Order

　　Work Area

　　In a premises distribution system, a work area is an area containing stations and the connections between those stations and their telecommunications (information) outlets.

　　Work Order

　　A work order is the basic engineering document that adds, modifies, or removes network components (capital assets). It is the tracking mechanism that all telecommunication companies use to add or remove components from their capital base.

　　WAN  - Wide Area Network. A data communications network which expands a LAN to link up with other LANs in remote buildings.

　　Web Site - A collection of Web documents that Internet users can access to learn information about a particular subject or company.

　　Webmaster - The person responsible for the production and maintenance of a Web site.

　　Wi-Fi  -  A technology that provides short-range, high-speed data connections between mobile data devices (such as laptops) and nearby Wi-Fi access points (hardware connected to a wired network).

　　Wireless  -  Voice and data telecommunications technology that uses the radio-frequency spectrum rather than wires for transmitting and receiving voice, data and video signals.

　　Wireline  -  A conventional (wired) telephone network versus a wireless network.

　　World Wide Web (WWW) - A HyperText system that allows users to navigate, or look through, linked documents and resources.

　　WWW - See World Wide Web