Nortel Meridian Meridian 1 Maintenance Manual page 486

474 List of terms
Standalone System Interactive Diagnostics (SSID)
terminal number (TN)
TN
trunk
variable
Versa Module Eurocard (VME).
VME
Voice Response Unit (VRU)
553-3211-510 Standard 1.0 October 1998
A set of diagnostic tools that provide confidence tests on various
Application Module or IPE Module hardware components.
The physical address of a device (for example, telephone set, a trunk, and
attendant) on the Meridian 1 PBX. The TN is composed of the loop, shelf,
card and unit IDs.
See terminal number.
Trunks are the physical links, or circuits, that enable telephone
communication, such as the link between a PBX and the public central
office (CO). There are various trunk types which provide services such as
Direct Inward Dialing (DID trunks), ISDN, central office connectivity (CO
trunks). Trunks can be analog or digital. Digital trunks use A/B signaling,
or D-channel signaling in the case of ISDN. Trunks are configured on the
Meridian 1 in Overlay 14.
This is a user-defined name that represents a value or set of values.
Variables, such as Òafter_hoursÓ representing the value Ò17:00Ð06:00Ó, are
defined in the Variable Table.
VME bus is an industry standard, high performance, 32-bit computer bus.
See Versa Module Eurocard.
A device that plays voice menus to a caller and responds to caller
instructions entered on a touch tone phone. Also known as IVR (Interactive
Voice Response).