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B-ISDN - Broadband-Integrated Services Digital Network

(B-I-S-D-N) A developing International Telecommunications Union recommendation for a network which offers more bandwidth than the existing (narrow band) Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). This will likely be done by breaking down channel ...

B2B - Business-to-Business

(bee-two-bee) An E-commerce term used to describe services one business might offer to another (as opposed to services one might offer to the general public). More Information Business-to-Business Search Engine Business-to-Business Yellow Pages

BAPI - Business Application Programming Interface

(bap-ee) An open, business-orientated interface for accessing R/3 business processes and data from external systems. The SAP objects are kept in an object repository and BAPI methods are written to access these in an object-oriented manner.

Baseband - A computer networking technique

A computer networking technique where digital signals travel over the connecting wires directly and in digital form instead of being modulated onto a carrier for transmission and demodulated at the receiving end. Baseband networks are typically si...

BASIC - Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

(basic) A beginners programming language. BASIC was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. As developed, it is a procedural language (i.e., lines of code are executed one after the other). It is also (as deve...

BAT - Bandwidth Allocation Technology

(bat) Software that allows for the control of network bandwidth allocation. BAT can be implemented in software or hardware (chipsets).

BBS - Bulletin Board System

(B-B-S) The classic BBS is a dial-up system where messages are exchanged and files uploaded or downloaded. There are many such systems around the world. A newer incarnation of a similar nature also exists on the Internet and is in use by companies...

BCC - Blind Carbon Copy

(B-C-C) A copy of an E-mail message sent to someone with no record of the other recipients of the message in the headers. BCC is typically used to send to a mailing list where you don't want each member of the list to know who the other members of...

BCC - Block Check Character

(B-C-C) A code used as part of cyclic redundancy checking (CRC). The BCC is calculated for a block, the block is sent followed by the BCC, and the receiver recalculates the BCC to see if the block was sent correctly.

BCD - Binary Coded Decimal

(B-C-D) A code scheme for numbers that allows computer manipulation to the base ten instead of the more normal base two. BCD manipulation preserves accuracy by reducing round-off errors. The BCD encoding is performed by using a four-digit binary n...

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