channel

Last Updated : Sep 08, 2012 |
  1. A circuit-switched call.
  2. A communications path for transmitting voice and data.
  3. In wideband, all of the time slots (contiguous or noncontiguous) necessary to support a call. Example: an H0-channel uses six 64-kbps time slots.
  4. A DS0 on a T1 or E1 facility not specifically associated with a logical circuit-switched call; analogous to a single trunk.