Part 3 Glossary Of Terms - Tieline ViA User Manual

3 Glossary of Terms
AES/EBU
AES3
AES42
APN
BRI
DHCP
DN
DNS
Domain
DSCP
Failover
Fuse-IP
GPIO
GUI
HTML5
IFB
ISDN
ISP
IP
LAN
Latency
LIO
MIB
Multicast
Multi-unicast
MSN
NAT
Packet
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Digital audio standard used to carry digital audio signals between devices
Official term for the audio standard referred to often as AES/EBU
AES standard for acoustics - Digital interface for microphones
A gateway between a cellular network and another computer network.
Basic Rate Interface for ISDN services
A network protocol enabling a server to automatically assign an IP address to a
device from a defined range of numbers
Directory Number for ISDN
The Domain Name System (DNS) is used to assign domain names to IP
addresses over the World-Wide Web
A group of computers or devices on a network which are administered with
common rules and procedures. Devices sharing a common part of the IP
address are said to be in the same domain
The Differentiated Services Code Point is a field in an IP packet header for
prioritizing data when traversing IP networks
Method of switching to an alternative backup audio stream if the primary
connection is lost.
Tieline bonding of IP interfaces to aggregate data
General-purpose Input/Output
Graphical User Interface
A markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the internet.
It is the fifth major version of the HTML standard.
Interrupted Foldback/Interruptible Foldback: an intercom circuit consisting of a
mix-minus program feed sent to talent, which can be interrupted and replaced
by a producer's or director's intercom microphone
Integrated Services Digital Network
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are companies that offer customers access to
the internet
Internet Protocol; used for sending data across packet-switched networks
Local Area Network; a group of computers and associated devices sharing a
common communications link
Delay associated with IP networks and caused by algorithmic, transport and
buffering delays
Logic Input/Output
A management information base (MIB) is a database used for managing the
entities in a communications network. This term is associated with the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Efficient one to many streaming of IP audio using multicast IP addressing
A multi-unicast program (also known as multiple unicast) can transmit a single
audio stream with common connection settings to a number of different
destinations.
Multiple Subscriber Number for ISDN
Network Address Translation is a system for forwarding data packets to different
private IP network addresses that reside behind a single public IP address.
A formatted unit of data carried over packet-switched networks.
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