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PBX LINE [10 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2014-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
  • Telephone Facilities
DEF

[A] customer controlled switching system whose purpose is to provide its users with the ability to pick up selectively any of several lines and to hold calls associated with any of these lines.

CONT

A PBX [private branch exchange] is differentiated from a key telephone system(KTS) in that users of a key system manually select their own outgoing lines on special telephone sets that control buttons for this purpose, while PBXs select the outgoing line automatically...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
  • Installations (Téléphonie)
DEF

Installation téléphonique la plus utilisée lorsque le nombre de postes supplémentaires est peu élevé, qui permet aux usagers de s'appeler directement entre eux et de communiquer en départ et en arrivée avec les abonnés du réseau public.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Facilities
  • Telephone Switching
DEF

In a PBX [private branch exchange], a circuit facility for handling the incoming exchange line calls after business hours.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations (Téléphonie)
  • Commutation téléphonique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instalaciones telefónicas
  • Conmutación telefónica
DEF

En una centralita automática privada, facilidad del circuito para el tratamiento de las llamadas de centralita entrantes después del horario laboral.

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Record 3 2009-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
  • Audio Technology
  • Police
  • Intelligence (Military)
DEF

The connection of a concealed listening or recording device to a communication circuit.

CONT

Wiretapping is the preferred method of obtaining intelligence... it involves tying in to a wire or other conductor that is used for communications. This wire can be a telephone line, a PBX [private branch exchange] cable, a local area network, a CCTV [closed circuit television] video system, an alarm system, or any other communications medium.

OBS

telephone tapping: This practice is no longer limited to the use of telephone lines, but the term "telephone tapping" continues to be used to denote this concept.

Key term(s)
  • wire-tapping

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
  • Électroacoustique
  • Police
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
DEF

Installation discrète d'un dispositif d'écoute ou d'enregistrement sur un circuit de télécommunications.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
  • Electroacústica
  • Policía
  • Inteligencia (militar)
DEF

Instalación de un dispositivo en las líneas telefónicas o telemáticas para captar los datos que por ellas se transmiten.

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Record 4 2006-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Shoulder surfers spend their time in public areas that have lots of pay phones. Airports are excellent locations for observing calling card numbers or DISA [Direct Inward System Access] phone numbers and access codes.... Shoulder surfers with stolen DISA phone numbers and codes dial into a company's PBX system and are passed through to a DISA port to an outside line where they run up thousands of dollars in long-distance calls.

OBS

See "Telecom 2000", an advertising and information supplement to the Sept. 13, 1993 edition of Maclean’s magazine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Les épieurs passent leur temps près des téléphones publics, dans les aéroports, par exemple. Ils surveillent les voyageurs et lorgnent leur numéro de carte d'appel ou leur numéro de téléphone et code d'accès DISA [accès directe au système interne]. [...] Armés des numéros de téléphone et codes d'accès DISA volés, les épieurs (ou les "clients", qui leur achètent les numéros) se servent du système particulier d'une entreprise pour faire des milliers de dollars d'appels interurbains non autorisés.

OBS

Voir «Télécom 2000», supplément publicitaire de «L'Actualité» du 1 octobre 1993.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telefonía y tecnología de microondas
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 5 2003-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Exchanges
  • Telephone Facilities
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

A subscriber line used as a trunk between a private branch exchange and the central office that serves it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centraux téléphoniques
  • Installations (Téléphonie)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Centrales telefónicas
  • Instalaciones telefónicas
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
DEF

Línea de abonado que se usa como enlace entre una centralita automática privada y la central telefónica que le presta servicio.

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Record 6 2001-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Switching
DEF

An arrangement for searching over a group of trunks at the central office, any one of which would provide a connection to the desired private branch exchange.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation téléphonique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Conmutación telefónica
DEF

Facilidad para buscar dentro de un grupo de enlaces en la oficina central, cualquiera de los que podrían proporcionar una conexión con la centralita automática privada deseada.

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Record 7 2000-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Switching
Key term(s)
  • PBX line hunting service

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation téléphonique
Key term(s)
  • service de recherche de ligne libre dans un commutateur privé

Spanish

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Record 8 1991-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Exchanges
  • Telephone Facilities
  • Telecommunications Transmission

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centraux téléphoniques
  • Installations (Téléphonie)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
OBS

Source pour "ligne de tableau de distribution privé" : Tel. News, sept 1951 -35-

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Wires and Cables
  • Telephone Facilities

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et fils téléphoniques
  • Installations (Téléphonie)

Spanish

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Record 10 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Wires and Cables
  • Telephone Facilities

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et fils téléphoniques
  • Installations (Téléphonie)

Spanish

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