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Bandwidth
The range of frequencies within which transmission equipment (such as electric
cable or fibre-optic waveguide) can transmit data.
Battery-backed RAM
The probe’s memory that contains a copy of the probe configuration. If power is
removed from the probe (either by unplugging the power cord or from a power
outage), this memory is preserved by power provided by the probe's internal
battery.
BIP-8
Bit Interleaved Parity 8 bits wide
Bit Interleaved Parity (BIP)
Bit Interleaved Parity (BIP) is a data integrity checking method. If even parity is
used, an N-bit code is generated by the transmitting equipment over a specified
portion of the signal in such a manner that the first bit of the code provides even
parity over the first bit of all N-bit sequences in the covered portion of the signal,
the second bit provides even parity over the second bit of all N-bit sequences and
so on. Even parity is generated by setting the BIP-N bits so that there are an even
number of 1s in each of the N-bit sequences including the BIP-N.
Bit Interleaved Parity 8 bits wide (BIP-8)
Bit Interleaved Parity 8 bits wide (BIP-8) provides for 8 separate even parity
codes covering the corresponding bit of each octet.
Bit Rate
The speed at which bits are transmitted, usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
bps
Bits per second.
Bridge
A device providing an intelligent connection between two otherwise independent
LANs. Bridges operate at layer 2 of the ISO OSI reference model. A bridge
inspects every packet originating on either LAN and creates a table of nodes and