| Definition: | sending of a command, usually sequential and possibly cyclic, from a central station to stations of a telecommunication network in order to alert each station to be ready to receive the message directed to it
Note 1 to entry: This concept is applicable to mobile radio networks and also to other types of telecommunication network such as data transmission networks.
Note 2 to entry: In English, the term "selecting" has a different meaning in switching (see IEV 714-15-03).
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