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Public PAD

Provided by the Post Telephone and Telegraph (PTT) administration or network provider that you can access by a local call on the public switched network. Once your terminal is connected to the public PAD, you enter the NUA of your host DTE and the PAD establishes the communications. [Source: IBM Information center]

See also PAD.



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