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Glossary
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force, the organization that produces standards for
communications on the internet.
LAN Local Area Network.
MAC Media Access Control, the ID of an endpoint.
QoS Quality of Service, mechanisms that improve audio quality over packet-based
networks.
RTCP Real-time Transport Control Protocol.
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol.
SRTCP Secure Real-time Transport Control Protocol.
SRTP Secure Real-time Transport Protocol.
System - Specific to a particular type of call server, for example, Communication Manager.
specific "System-specific signaling" refers to messages specific to the signaling protocol used
by the system, for example, H.323 or CCMS messages or both messages used by
Communication Manager and IP Office. "System-specific procedures" refers to
deskphone software procedures that are specific to the call server with which the
software is intended to be used.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, a connection-oriented transport-layer protocol.
TLS Transport Layer Security, an enhancement of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) that is
compatible with SSL 3.0. Using TLS, you can ensure privacy and data integrity
between two communicating applications.
UDP User Datagram Protocol, a connectionless transport-layer protocol.
Unnamed A type of registration with Communication Manager in which the IP deskphone does
Registration not need an extension. This type of IP deskphone has limited outgoing calling
facility.
URI & URL Uniform Resource Identifier and Uniform Resource Locator. Names for the strings
used to reference resources on the Internet (for example, HTTP://....). URI is the newer
term.
USB Universal Serial Bus. An industry standard used by PCs and various devices for
communication.
VLAN Virtual LAN.
VoIP Voice over IP, a class of technology for sending audio data and signaling over LANs.
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