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 | FAQFrequently Asked Questions
General information containing answers to frequently asked questions
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| FATFile Allocation Table
Used to manage files stored on disks
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| FCFibre Channel
An interconnect standard allowing data transfer at up to 1Gbps over distances of up to 10km using optical cable
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| FCBFile Control Block
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| FCCFederal Communication Commission
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| FCMIFibre Channel Methodologies for Interconnects
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| FCOTFiber Central Office Terminal
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| FCSFrame Check Sequence
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| FCVCFlow Controlled Virtual Circuit
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| FDFlat Display
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| FDDFloppy Disk Drive
The most common size today is 1.44 Mb, although initially produced in 360Kb, 720Kb and also 2.88Mb
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| FDDIFibre Distributed Data Interface
An ANSI standard token passing network that uses fibre optic cabling.
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| FDMFrequency Division Multiplexing
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| FEAFunctional Entity Action
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| FEBEFar End Block Error
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| FECForward Error Correction code
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| FECCFar End Camera Control
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| FECNForward Explicit Congestion Notification
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| FEPFront-end Processor
A term used mainly in networking for handling and converting protocols.
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| FERFFar End Receive Failure
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| FETField Effect Transistor
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| FFForms Feed
Associated with Line Printers
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| FGFunctional Group
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| FHFrequency Hopping
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| FHSFrequency Hop Synchronisation
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| FIFOFirst In First Out
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| FITLFiber In The Loop
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| FLOPSFLoating point Operations Per Second
A common benchmark measurement for rating the speed of microprocessors.
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| FMFrequency Modulation
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| FMLFrequency Modulated Link
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| FMOFrequency Modulated Oscillator
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| FNFiber Node
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| FORTRANFORmula TRANslation
Programming language
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| FOSEFiber Optic Splice Enclosure
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| FOTSFiber Optic Transmission System
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| FPFilter Program
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| FPLLFrequency Phase Locked Loop
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| FPSFrames Per Second
Term used in digital video to describe the speed of display
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| FPUFloating Point Unit
Specialist hardware used for the specific calculation of floating point.
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| FRAMFerroelectric Random Access Memory
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| FRAD Frame Relay Assembler Dissembler
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| FS Filter Set
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| FSA Fiber Serving Area
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| FSK Frequency Shift Keying
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| FSM Field Strength Meter
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| FTP File Transfer Protocol In a TCP/IP network ( internet, UNIX, etc ) a set of commands used to log onto network, list directories and copy files. |
| FTTB |
Fiber To The Bridge
| FTTC |
Fiber To The Curb
| FTTF |
Fiber To The Feed
| FTTH |
Fiber To The Home
| FUNI |
Frame based User to Network Interface
| FW |
FirmWare
| FXO |
Foreign eXchange Office
| FXS |
Foreign eXchange Station