Avaya MERLIN MAGIX Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual page 278

Data Module
Type of ISDN Terminal Adapter
communicates over high-speed
Data Rate
See bps.
Data Station
Special type of extension where data communications take place; includes
and DCE; sometimes a telephone is also part of a data station.
Data Terminal
Input/output device (often a personal computer) that can be connected to the
control unit via an interface.
Data Terminal Equipment
See and Data Terminal.
Data Workstation
Special type of extension where data communications take place; includes
and DCE; sometimes a telephone is also part of a data workstation.
DCE
Data Communications
adapters, used to establish, maintain, and terminate a connection between the
system and data terminal equipment (DTE)–such as printers, personal
computers, host computers, or network workstations.
DCP
Digital Communications
voice and data over the same communications link.
D-Channel
Data-Channel. 16- or 64-kbps channel that carries signaling information or data on
a PRI or BRI.
Dedicated Feature Buttons
The imprinted feature buttons on a telephone: for example, Conf or Conference,
Drop, Feature, HFAI (Hands-Free Answer on Intercom), Hold, Message, Mute or
Microphone, Recall, Speakerphone or Spkrphone, and Transfer.
Delay-Start Tie Trunk
Tie Trunk or Tandem Tie Trunk
transmits an off-hook signal to the receiving end and waits for the receiving end to
send an off-hook signal followed by an on-hook signal. Also called "dial-repeating
tie trunk."
that acts as the
Digital facilities.
Equipment. Equipment, such as
Protocol. AT&T proprietary protocol to transmit digitized
on which the originating end of the tie trunk
DCE at a Data Workstation
Modems or ISDN terminal
Glossary
that
DTE
DTE
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