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telephone plug
(redirected from telephone jack)

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telephone plug [′telĀ·ə‚fōn ‚pləg]
(electricity)


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Small business and home office users alike have long craved the freedom to connect their network of laptops, desktops, and servers without needing a telephone jack for every unit or having to string cable through holes drilled in the walls or ceilings and then laid along the floor.
Multiplexed operation and wiring allow all stations (including bed, bath and dome lights) to be addressable and connect to a common cable via a modular telephone jack for easy installation.
The Divx approach was especially impractical: unless, for example, prospective customers already had a satellite-dish or one of the new digital cable-TV boxes, it was unlikely that they had (or wanted to install at their own expense) a telephone jack convenient enough to their TV set to handle the uplink.
 
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