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  2. Broadcast address - Wikipedia

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    A broadcast address is a network address used to transmit to all devices connected to a multiple-access communications network. A message sent to a broadcast address may be received by all network-attached hosts. In contrast, a multicast address is used to address a specific group of devices, and a unicast address is used to address a single ...

  3. Station identification - Wikipedia

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    Station identification. Station identification ( ident, network ID, channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or ...

  4. OBD-II PIDs - Wikipedia

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    Standard OBD requests and responses use functional addresses. The diagnostic reader initiates a query using CAN ID 7DFh, which acts as a broadcast address, and accepts responses from any ID in the range 7E8h to 7EFh. ECUs that can respond to OBD queries listen both to the functional broadcast ID of 7DFh and one assigned ID in the range 7E0h to ...

  5. Facility ID - Wikipedia

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    Facility ID. The facility ID number, also called a FIN or facility identifier, is a unique integer number [1] of one to six digits, [2] assigned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau [1] to each broadcast station in the FCC Consolidated Database System (CDBS) and Licensing and Management System (LMS) databases, among ...

  6. Television broadcaster - Wikipedia

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    A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors. Until the mid-1980s, broadcast programming on ...

  7. Radio Data System - Wikipedia

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    Radio Data System ( RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts. RDS standardizes several types of information transmitted, including time, station identification and program information.

  8. Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia

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    Radio-frequency identification ( RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder called a tag, a radio receiver, and a transmitter. When triggered by an electromagnetic interrogation pulse from a nearby RFID reader device, the tag transmits ...

  9. Multicast address - Wikipedia

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    The service is identified in the group ID field. For example, if ff02::101 refers to all Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers on the local network segment, then ff08::101 refers to all NTP servers in an organization's networks. The group ID field may be further divided for special multicast address types. Notable IPv6 multicast addresses