Low-performance equipment
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In telecommunication, the term low-performance equipment has the following meanings:
- Equipment that has imprecise characteristics that do not meet system reliability requirements.
- In military communications, equipment that has insufficiently exacting characteristics to permit its use in trunks or links.
- Note: Low-performance equipment may be used in loops if it meets loop performance requirements.
- Tactical ground and airborne equipment that (a) has size, weight, and complexity characteristics that must be kept to a minimum and (b) is used in systems that have components with similar minimum performance characteristics.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188