Glossary - Lucent Technologies DEFINITY AUDIX Installation And Upgrade

Glossary

Audio Messaging Interchange Specification (AMIS)
An analog networking feature that allows subscribers of different voice mail systems to send voice
mail messages to one another.
Audit
A software program that resolves filesystem incompatibilities and updates restored filesystems to
a workable level of service. Audits are done automatically on a periodic basis, or can be per-
formed on demand.
Audio Information Exchange (AUDIX)
A complete voice-mail messaging system accessed and operated by touch-tone telephones and
integrated with a switch.
AUDIX Administration and Data Acquisition Package (ADAP)
A software package which allows the DEFINITY AUDIX administrator to transfer system sub-
scriber, maintenance, or traffic data over the administration port to a personal computer (PC) or
Work Group System (WGS).
Automated Attendant
A DEFINITY AUDIX feature that allows a customer to set up a main number with a menu of options
that routes callers to an appropriate department at the touch of a button.
B
Backup
A duplicate copy of a filesystem saved on a removable tape. The backup filesystem may be cop-
ied back (restored) if the active version is damaged (corrupted) or lost.
Balun
On the DEFINITY AUDIX LAN connection, the adapter needed to connect the twisted-pair break-
out cable to the coaxial building wire distribution system.
Baud Rate
Transmission signaling speed.
Boot (or Reboot)
The operation to start a computer system by loading programs from disk to main memory (part of
system initialization).
Boot Filesystem
The filesystem from which the system loads its initial programs.
Broadcast Messaging
A feature that enables the system administrator and other designated users to send a voice mail
message to all subscribers automatically.
Buffer
Memory used to compensate for time differences in transmission by temporarily storing data.
Busyout Service
When a technician or administrator blocks service to keep customers from using faulty equipment
until it can be repaired or tested. For instance, when ports (or a link) are busied out, subscribers
who try to access their mailboxes hear a fast busy reorder tone. People who would normally reach
DEFINITY AUDIX through Call Answering are not forwarded; they hear ringing and no answer at
the number they called.
GL-2 Issue 2 December 1996