VOD (Video-On-Demand)

A system that allows a user to select and access stored video content as

desired. CATV providers, for example, commonly offer VOD, storing large numbers of movies and previously aired television programs on video servers.When the subscriber selects content, the movie or program is accessed on the server, decompressed and streamed over the network, and begins to play almost immediately on the user’s TV set. See also CATV, compression, and server.

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• NN (Network Neutrality)
• NOC (Network Operations Center)
• node
• noise
• nominal
• non-blocking
• non-deterministic
• non-dialable toll points
• non dispersion-shifted fiber (NDSF)
• non-facility associated signaling (NFAS)
• non-line-of-sight (NLOS)
• nonpersistent carrier sense multiple access (Nonpersistent CSMA)
• Nonpersistent CSMA (Nonpersistent Carrier Sense Multiple Access)
• non-real-time (nrt)
• non real-time variable bit rate (nrt-VBR)
• non-repudiation
• non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
• non-wireline carrier
• non-wireline carrier
• Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT)
• Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT)
• normal
• North American Numbering Council (NANC)
• North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
• North American Time Division Multiple Access (NA-TDMA)