cell octet
Technical computing term for an 8-bit unit used in cell-based network protocols such as ATM.
An ATM cell is 53 bytes, of which 48 bytes are payload and 5 bytes are header, and each byte is treated as a cell octet.
Compound of 点 (てん, 'point' or 'cell' in this context) and オクテット (from English 'octet'), referring to an 8-bit unit in cell-based data transmission.