Business telecommunications and IT systems

kilo.

i) When spelt with a lower case k (kilo) it means one thousand.

ii) When spelt with an upper case K (Kilo) it means 2 to the power of 10 = 1,024.

see kilobit.

8,000 bits per second, or 1,000 bytes per second, or 8 kilobits per second.

Abbreviations are kbit/s or kb/s or kbps. The prefenece is kbit/s.

Always used with a small k.

An authentication service developed at MIT based on a paper by Needham and Schoeder.

In cryptography, a key is a variable value that is applied using an algorithm to a string or block of unencrypted text to produce encrypted text.

The length of the key generally determines how difficult it will be to decrypt the text in a given message.

A BT term. Similar to DSS.

A BT term for a type of Private Circuit.

The establishment and enforcement of message encryption (with a key) and authentication procedures, in order to provide privacy-enhanced mail (PEM) services for email transfer over the Internet.

A slang term for Keyphone System.

A Keyboard, Video or Visual display unit, and Mouse, is a device which allows a user to control multiple computers from a single keyboard, visual diaply unit and mouse.

A telephone, proprietary to a particular Keyphone System, able to handle more than one call at a time, rather like a mini-switchboard.

Has many function keys, some of them with lights as well.

Particularly useful for distributed answering.

Key Telephone System, known also as a Keyphone System.

A telephone system where most of the telephones are proprietary and which have many additionsl programmable keys in additiona to the keypad.

Enables multiple simultaneous calls to be controlled from one telephone.

see PABX and ACD.

see Hertz.

i) When spelt with a capital K, it means 2 to the power of 10 = 1,024.

ii) When spelt with a lower case k, it means 1,000.

kilobit. 1,000 (10 to the power of 3) bits.

Given there are 8 bits in a byte, a kilobit is 125 bytes.

Abbreviated to kbit or kb, and always with a small k.

Not to be confused with Kilobyte.

1,000 bytes.

Abbreviated to kB or kbyte. Always with a small k.

see kbit/s.

A BT point to point digital circuit, typically offering 19.2, 64, 128 or 256kbit/s bandwidth.

The Manufacturer of Insulation Displacement Connectors.

see IDC.

Another term for the CPU of a telephone system.

Key Telephone System.

Commonly know as a Keyphone System.