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NABTS
(North American Basic Teletext Specification) An open standard for transmission of data over the television vertical blanking interval (VBI). NABTS is an established standard for television data transmission, and it is in use by broadcasters and systems integrators in North America, Europe, South America, and the Far East.
An addition to the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) that provides supplementary functionality. Broadcast Architecture supplies NDIS extensions that must be supported by all NIC miniports written to control broadcast receiver cards and by all transports that work with and access broadcast receiver cards.
network
In computing, a data communications system that interconnects a group of computers and associated devices at the same or different sites. See also local area network, wide area network.
In television broadcasting, a chain of radio or television broadcasting stations linked by wire or microwave relay, or a company that produces the programs for these stations.
Network Driver Interface Specification
(NDIS) In Microsoft® Windows® networking, the Microsoft/3Com specification for the interface between device drivers and a network. All transports call the NDIS interface to access and work with network interface cards (NICs). Using NDIS, developers can write hardware device drivers that are independent of a target operating system. Broadcast Architecture supports NDIS version 5.0.
network interface card
(NIC) An printed circuit board, adapter or other device used to connect a computer to a network.
(National Television System Committee standard) Standard regulating analog television signals in North America, Japan, and parts of South America, originated by the National Television System Committee. North America and Japan established NTSC color standards to make signals compatible with black and white transmissions. NTSC is based on the 60-hertz rate of U.S. electrical mains. An NTSC set can display 525 scan lines at approximately 30 frames per second, but nonpicture lines and interlaced scanning methods make for an effective resolution limit of about 340 lines. NTSC bandwidth is 4.2 megahertz. See also PAL, SECAM.