In telecommunication, the term remote access has the following meanings:
- Pertaining to communication with a data processing facility from a remote location or facility through a data link. In Telecommunication a data link is the means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving digital information One of the more common methods of providing this type of remote access is using a VPN.
- A PABX service feature that allows a user at a remote location to access by telephone PABX features, such as access to Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) lines. A private branch exchange (PBX is a Telephone exchange that serves a particular business or office as opposed to one that a Common carrier or telephone company In Telecommunications, a user is a person organization or other entity that employs the services provided by a Telecommunication system or by an Information Basic principle A traditional landline telephone system also known as "plain old telephone service" (POTS, commonly handles both signaling and audio information In US Telecommunications a Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS is a Toll service offering for customer dial-type telecommunications between a given customer station
Note: For remote access, individual authorization codes are usually required.
Source: From Federal Standard 1037C
RemoteAccess is also the name of a successful DOS-based BBS software. Federal Standard 1037C, entitled Telecommunications Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration RemoteAccess is a MS-DOS Bulletin Board System (BBS software package written by Andrew Milner and was published by his company Wantree Development in Australia DOS, short for "Disk Operating System" is a shorthand term for several closely related Operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a Computer system running software that allows users to connect and login to
External links
- JANET UK 'Different Flavours of VPN: Technology and Applications'
- Cisco White Paper on 'Remote-Access VPNs: Business Productivity, Deployment, and Security Considerations'
Dictionary
remote access
-noun
- A communication with a data processing facility from a remote location or facility through a data link.
- A PABX service feature that allows a user at a remote location to access by telephone PABX features, such as access to Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) lines.
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