telecommuter

A businessperson who works and communicates largely from home through the use of infor-

mation and communications technologies, rather than traveling to a company office. The terms telecommuting and telework were coined in the early 1970s by Jack Nilles, who was working at the University of Southern California (USC) on projects aimed at eliminating rush-hour traffic by allowing employees to work closer to home or at home, linked to the central workplace via telecommunications networks. See also teleworker.

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• 1394
• 1/3 FEC
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• 15
• 1.5-way paging
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• 16-QAM
• 16-QPSK
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• 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