- T-carrier
- A digital communications service from a common carrier for voice or data transmission.The four-level, time-division multiplexing specification for the U.S. telephone system allows the bit stream of the smaller carriers to be multiplexed into the larger ones.The following are the four service levels:• T1Provides 24 channels of 64Kbps, giving a total bandwidth of 1.544Mbps.When a T1 service is made available in single 64Kbps increments, it is known as fractional T1.• T2The equivalent of 4 T1 services, T2 offers 96 channels of 64Kbps, for a total bandwidth of 6.3Mbps.• T3The equivalent of 28 T1 circuits, T3 offers 672 channels of 64Kbps, for a total bandwidth of 44.736Mbps. T3 is available commercially, but is not often used for LANs.• T4The equivalent of 168 T1 circuits, T4 provides 4,032 channels of 64Kbps, for a total bandwidth of 274.176Mbps.
Dictionary of networking . 2014.