Glossary - Nortel Remote Office 9150 Installation And Administration Manual

March 2000
Mbyte
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megahertz
One million cycles per second.
MHz
See megahertz.
MIG RLC
An abbreviation for Meridian Internet Gateway Reach Line Card. The
MIG RLC is installed on the Meridian 1 PBX at the host location and relays
voice and signaling information from the digital telephones connected at a
remote site to the Meridian 1 PBX at the host site.
motherboard
The principal board that has connectors for attaching devices to the bus.
Typically, the motherboard contains the CPU, memory, and basic controllers for
the system. On PCs, the motherboard is often called the system board.
MTBF
Mean time between failures
Mu-law
A companding method for encoding and decoding audio signals in 24-channel
pulse-code-modulated (PCM) systems. Mu-law is the method used in North
America and Japan. See also A-law.
Multi-user ports
A MIG RLC port feature that allows multiple stations to time-share a single port
on the host PBX. All stations that use a multi-user port are always assigned to
the same port number (TN) on the host PBX.
N
network interface card
An expansion board that enables a PC to be connected to a local area network
(LAN).
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