superrate

superrate definition - telecom
A rate higher than the normal rate. A time division multiplexer typically derives multiple 64kbps voice grade channels from a circuit. If a data application requires more bandwidth, a sufficiently sophisticated mux can group multiple channels into a superrate channel. See also subrate and TDM.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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