offshoring

The exporting of certain business functions to foreign countries, where either company

employees or independent contractors perform the work. Offshoring commonly involves the exporting of work from developed countries to undeveloped foreign countries for reasons that include cost reduction, tax avoidance, legal liability avoidance, and strategic market expansion. If work is shifted to independent contractors, the process becomes one of offshore outsourcing. See also job security and outsourcing.

• 1.5-way paging
• 16
• 16-QAM
• 16-QPSK
• 18
• 1:8 Splitter
• 1A
• 1A1
• 1A2
• 1Base5 (1 Mbps; Baseband; 500 meters)
• 1B+D
• 1. Domain Name System. The naming convention that divides the Internet into logical domains identified in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) as a 32-bit portion of the total address.The standard convention is user@organization.domain, where user is the name of the end user, organization is the name of the enterprise or other organization owning or sponsoring the address, and domain is the type of entity owning or sponsoring the address.The administration of the DNS is the responsibility of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). See also domain, ICANN, Internet, and IPv4. 2.
• 1. In storage, irrelevant material, usually zero (0) bits, added to a data block in order to fill it to a minimum size, to force certain fields of control data or user data into certain positions or sizes, or to prevent the user data from duplicating a bit pattern that has a specific control meaning. See also block. 2.
• 1 cps, 1 Hz
• 1+ Dialing
• 1G (1st Generation)
• 1G (1st Generation)
• 1-persistent carrier sense multiple access (1-Persistent CSMA)
• 1-Persistent CSMA (1-Persistent Carrier Sense Multiple Access)
• 1+ WATS
• 1xEV-DO (one carrier EVolution-Data Optimized)
• 1xRTT (one times Radio Transmission Technology)
• 2
• 20
• 2:1