convergence

1. The moving from different directions towards union or one another, especially referring to entities that were very different or even opposed. 2. In telecommunications, the coming together of voice, facsimile, data, video, and image applications, systems, and networks, both wireline and wireless.

The developing IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) currently comes closest to full-on convergence. IMS is an architectural concept built around a packet core and providing an environment in which a user can access a wide range of multimedia services using any device and any type of network connection. See also IMS.

• BCH (Bose, Chaudhuri, and Hocquengham)
• BCM (Bit Compression Multiplexer)
• beaconing
• beaconing
• beamsplitter
• beamsplitter
• bearer channel (B channel)
• BECN (Backward Explicit Congestion Notification)
• beeper
• bel (B)
• Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922)
• Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
• Bellcore (Bell Communications Research)
• Bell Labs (AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories)
• Bell Operating Company (BOC)
• Bell System
• Bell System
• Bell System
• Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs)
• bend diameter
• bending loss
• bend radius
• bent pipe
• BER (Bit Error Rate)
• Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (BIND)