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What (who) is concentrator - definition

A FUNCTIONAL UNIT THAT PERMITS A COMMON PATH TO HANDLE MORE DATA SOURCES THAN THERE ARE CHANNELS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE WITHIN THE PATH.
Access concentrator; Remote access concentrator

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<communications> A device that combines the data streams from many simultaneously active inputs into one shared channel in such a way that the streams can be separated after transmission. The concentrator's output bandwidth must be at least as great as the total bandwidth of all simultaneously active inputs. A concentrator is one kind of multiplexing device. For example, a concentrator may be used to connect 24 2400 bps TTYs to a host via a 57600 bps channel. (2000-03-01)
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·noun An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
II. Concentrator ·add. ·noun A frame or ring of wire or hard paper fitting into the cartridge case used in some shotguns, and holding the shot together when discharged, to secure close shooting; also, a device for slightly narrowing the bore at the muzzle for the same purpose.
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In the evolution of modern telecommunications systems there was a requirement to connect large numbers of low-speed access devices with large telephone company 'central office' switches over common paths. During the first generations of digital networks, analog signals were digitized on line cards attached to the telephone exchange switches.

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Concentrator

In telecommunication, the term concentrator has the following meanings:

  • In data transmission, a functional unit that permits a common path to handle more data sources than there are channels currently available within the path. A concentrator usually provides communication capability between many low-speed, usually asynchronous channels and one or more high-speed, usually synchronous channels. Usually different speeds, codes, and protocols can be accommodated on the low-speed side. The low-speed channels usually operate in contention and require buffering.
  • A device that connects a number of links with only one destination, the main function of this device is to make a kind of load balancing between two or more servers connected together, data distribution is done according to the server processing rate.
  • A patch panel or other component in the cable plant where cable runs converge.
  • ISP used concentrators to enable modem dialing; this kind of concentrator is sometimes called a modem concentrator or a remote access concentrator. The term "access concentrator" is also used to describe similar provider edge equipment used in computer networks that doesn't rely on modems anymore, e.g. FTTH.
Examples of use of concentrator
1. Codelco, the world‘s biggest copper producer, denied reports by local media that output at its Codelco Norte concentrator had been disrupted as a result of strike action.
2. It may not sound a lot to some people, but 1,000 means a lot when you are having to spend 2,200, as we have just done, on a portable oxygen concentrator so that my husband can sometimes leave the house.
3. Darling said Britain welcomed foreign investment into its energy market, but that the process was governed by clear market rules. (Reuters) Summa Firm Plans Mine Summa, a Russian firm involved primarily in telecoms, will invest $250 million to develop a zinc and lead deposit and build an ore concentrator in the republic of Sakha, the company said Thursday.