The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary - Part 22 fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well-balanced, well-researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context | Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary of different sizes and which may take longer to execute than the same operation carried out on a reduced instruction set computing RISC chip. CISC chips are more common on older architectures. A CISC processor command is translated into microcode a series of smaller instructions which are in turn queued and processed one at a time by a nanoprocessor. See reduced instruction set computing. Complex Node Representation CNR. In ATM networks a collection of node-related parameters that provide state information about a logical node. This information is usefill in routing. Complex Text Layout CTL. An IETF Human Computer Interface HCI platform standard. Component Object Model COM. Microsoft s approach to object-oriented programming. The COM is a means for creating components that are reusable across a variety of applications thus reducing programming time and increasing interoperability across applications. Microsoft s Object Linking and Embedding OLE provided a subset of the functionality now associated with COM. See Object Management Group. For a more complete discussion of the basic concepts associated with programming objects see object-oriented programming. Component Software Microsoft s description for object-oriented programming components associated with their Component Object Model. See Component Object Model object-oriented programming. composite Combined bundled aggregated interleaved entwined mixed. composite video A color composite video signal is one in which the luminance brightness and chrominance color are combined with the chrominance modulated onto the luminance as a subcarrier. The signal may have to be separated by the receiver depending upon the system. Videogame systems that plug into a TV set send out a composite signal as opposed to an RGB signal that might be sent to a computer monitor. compound modulation A successive modulation technique in which the modulated wave from one step becomes the modulating wave in
