Terms And Conventions Used - AT&T MERLIN LEGEND Release 3.1 System Manager's Manual

Terms and Conventions Used

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Terms and Conventions Used
The terms described here are used in preference to other, equally acceptable
terms for describing communications systems.
Lines, Trunks, and Facilities
Facility is a general term that designates a communications path between a
telephone system and the telephone company central office. Technically, a
trunk connects a switch to a switch, for example, the MERLIN LEGEND
Communications System to the central office. Technically, a line is a loop-start
facility or a communications path that does not connect switches, for example,
an intercom line or a Centrex line. However, in actual usage, the terms line and
trunk are often applied interchangeably. In this guide, we use lines/trunks and
line/trunk to refer to facilities in general. Specifically, we refer to digital facilities .
We also use specific terms such as personal line , ground-start trunk , DID trunk ,
and so on. When you talk to your local telephone company central office, ask
about the terms they use for the specific facilities they connect to your system.
Some older terms have been replaced with newer terms. The following list
shows the old term on the left and the new term on the right.
trunk module
trunk jack
station
station jack
analog data station
7500B data station
analog voice and analog data station analog voice and modem data
digital voice and analog data station MLX voice and modem data
analog data-only station
7500B data-only station
MLX voice and 7500B data station
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line/trunk module
line/trunk jack
extension
extension jack
modem data station
ISDN terminal adapter data station
modem data-only station
ISDN terminal adapter data-only station
MLX voice and ISDN terminal adapter
data station