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Accelink Technologies

The company offers optical fiber connectors/adaptors, optical test instruments, micro-optical devices, dispersion compensation modules, subsystems, photo detectors, fiber optical couplers/splitters, optical switches/attenuators, WDM/DWDM/CWDM/OADM modules, and optical amplifiers.

Aluratek

Founded in 2006, Aluratek manufactures an assortment of electronic products, namely: eBook readers, digital video camcorders, multimedia players, internet radios, digital photo frames, 3G routers, docking enclosures, USB 3.0, high resolution adapters, USB and multimedia accessories, splitters and switches.

Arsys Software

The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.

Arthur Q. Bryan

One especially memorable appearance was in the Charley Chase short "South of the Boudoir" (1940); as Charley's boss, he spoke in his normal voice, but when surreptitiously coming onto to wife Ann Doran, he switches to baby talk in the Fudd voice.

Avaya ERS 5500

The switches have an integrated time-domain reflectometer (TDR) built into every copper port, providing diagnostic monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of the connected cables allowing for the troubleshooting of cable defects (crimped, cut, shorted or damaged cables) from the telnet, SNMP, web and console management interfaces.

Azoteq

Applications for Azoteq's intelligent LED switches include headlamps, flashlights, sport equipment (like Black Diamond Equipment or Princeton Technology), automotive interior lighting, battery-operated toothbrushes etc.

Basel-Stadt

Basel is located at the so-called 'knee' of the River Rhine, at the point where from the west the little Birsig River joins the Rhine from the left, and where the Rhine itself switches from flowing in a westerly direction to a northerly flow.

Bubble Ghost

These can be all controlled by the ghost, who can wander around the level freely and blow at things - such as the bubble to add speed, the candle to put out the flame, or switches to turn them on or off.

CFLAGS

These variables are most commonly used to specify optimization or debugging switches to a compiler, as for example -g, -O2 or (GCC-specific) -march=athlon.

CFLAGS allows to add switches for the C compiler, while CXXFLAGS is meant to be used when invoking a C++ compiler.

Digitel GSM

The company began a network expansion program in July 2006, and by the end of the year more than 1,070 radio bases had been installed, 7 switches in Caracas, Valencia, Puerto La Cruz and Maracaibo, stretching its GPRS/EDGE network in the West of the country and offering communication, data, information and entertainment to all its customers.

Dominick Trinchera

They go down to the basement where Big Trin switches on the light to see Sonny Black, Lefty Guns, Boobie and Nicky Santoro armed with shotguns.

Dr. NIM

The "game board" is actually a very simple Digi-Comp digital computer with memory switches (the three-lobed levers) that 'remember' what was done & their starting position is the program that plays Nim.

E.T. Adventure

In 2012, the ride at Universal Studios Florida received new track switches by Dynamic Structures.

Eyüp Gondola

Various technical data regarding the status of the line such as the distance of the cabins from the stations, cabin speed, DC motor current and torque, positions of the safety switches, failure checklist, active failures and wind speed motor are available to the station operators by computers.

Festivals in Nigeria

The Lagos Countdown begins when the Lagos Countdown Governor, Babatunde Fashola officially “switches on” the Lagos Festival of Lights, heralding the holiday season with thousands of decorative lights from the entire stretch of the Marina through Ahmadu Bello Way to Bar Beach.

Gauntlet track

In addition, they are used in various places in Prague and Brno where interlacing is used to shift the switches away from high-traffic intersections, in order to improve traffic flow.

Generalized keyboard

Harold Fortuin's 1994 Clavette midi controller uses straight alternating rows of switches which can be customized for different tunings by programming and with key overlay sheets.

Havells

Later in 80's they Acquired a manufacturing plant at Alwar, Rajasthan for Power Cables & Wires.In that same year they Entered into a Joint Venture with Electrium, UK for manufacturing Dorman Smith MCCBs and Crabtree Modular Plate Switches.

Huffin

After several repeats of the riff, the music switches into a one-chord 4/4 jam with John Etheridge playing the lead solo on guitar.

IBM zEnterprise System

This add-on infrastructure supports redundant top-of-Rack switches, redundant power supplies, extra blowers, and IBM BladeCenter chassis.

INETCO Systems Limited

Initially, INETCO specialized in communications gateway products for dial-up point of sale and automated teller machine terminals, legacy network protocols to TCP/IP networks, transaction hosts and switches, and third-party electronic funds transfer processors for banking and payment processing.

Inter-network processors

In addition, most modern switches have integrated network managing capabilities and may operate on numerous layers of the OSI reference model.

Inter-Switch Link

Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL) is a Cisco proprietary protocol that maintains VLAN information as traffic flows between switches and routers.

Intermediate distribution frame

In WAN and LAN environments IDFs can hold devices of different types including backup systems (hard drives or other media as self-contained, or as RAIDs, CD-ROMs, etc.), networking (switches, hubs, routers), and connections (fiber optics, coaxial, category cables) and so on.

Just Another Story

It is the opening track to the second Jamiroquai album The Return of the Space Cowboy, in all countries other than the U.S., where the song switches place with "Space Cowboy" to become the eleventh track.

KY-68

The KY-68 can operate via civilian and military switches in either encrypted or un-encrypted mode, or point-to-point (encrypted mode only).

Mars Desert Research Station

Hand held radios mounted on the suits' helmets (with externally mounted push to talk switches) are used to communicate with Habitat communication base (Hab-com) and with fellow analogue Mars surface explorers on the same EVA.

Military of Latvia

For this goal a rotating force of four NATO fighters, which comes from different nations and switches at two or three month intervals, is based in Lithuania to cover all three Baltic states (see Baltic Air Policing).

Multilayer switch

According to Cisco, Layer 3 switches are basically routers that switch based on Layer 3 information, the basic difference being processing speed and/or the way they do the switching; Layer 3 switches use ASICs/hardware instead of the CPU/software that a router would.

Multiway switching

When the load is controlled from only two points, Single Pole, Double Throw (SPDT) switches are used.

While a "normal" light switch needs to be only a Single Pole, Single Throw (SPST) switch, multiway switching requires the use of switches that have one or more additional contacts and two or more wires must be run between the switches.

Namco Museum DS

The collection also features virtual DIP switch modes where the switches can be turned on and off using the stylus, although not nearly as many of the original switches are on it.

Orthodox stance

Francisco Palacios is traditionally an orthodox, but occasionally switches to a southpaw stance to confuse his opponent at times.

Phenotypic switching

An example is Candida albicans, which, when it infects host tissue, switches from the usual unicellular yeast-like form into an invasive, multicellular filamentous form.

Program animation

On the IBM System 360 processor range, these facilities were provided by front panel switches, buttons and banks of neon lights.

Raritan

Raritan Inc., a provider of KVM Switches and IT infrastructure management solutions, in Somerset, New Jersey

Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive

For instance, a circuit board is composed of a bare PCB, ICs, resistors, capacitors, switches, etc.

Server Interface Pod

Many of Dell's KVM switches are IP enabled, allowing users to remote control servers with a Linux or Microsoft Windows client.

Telex

One of the largest such switches was operated by Royal Dutch Shell as recently as 1994, permitting the exchange of messages between a number of IBM Officevision, Digital Equipment Corporation ALL-IN-1 and Microsoft Mail systems.

Terry and June

In the last season he switches to a briefly seen Mk3 Ford Granada.

The Intelligence Men

After a few set-piece comedy interludes, the tune is identified and the plot switches to a performance of Swan Lake, the projected venue for the assassination.

The Maggie

The film uses real placenames as far as the Crinan Canal, then switches to fictional placenames once they get through it.

The Whole Story and Other Stories

The narrative focus switches between the proprietor, a 1974 Penguin edition of the book, a fly landing on it, and the man, who it transpires is buying every copy of the book he can find for his sister, who is constructing a boat out of them financed by an Arts Council grant...

Turing switch

Both are named in honor of the English logician Alan Turing, albeit the research in Turing switches is not based on Turing's research.

Unicast flood

Another common cause are hosts with ARP timers longer than the address cache timeout on switches—the switch forgets which port connects to the host.

UnixWare NonStop Clusters

In 2000 NSC was modified to allow standard Fast Ethernet and later Gigabit Ethernet switches as the cluster interconnect and commercialized by SCO as UnixWare NonStop Clusters 7.1.1+IP.


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