Agilent Technologies aurora Duet User Manual page 226

Duet
aurora Basic & Primary Rate ISDN Tester - User Guide
MSN
μ - Law
National ISDN
NFAS
Northern Telecom A custom ISDN protocol used by
NT
OLI
OSI
Overlap
PABX
Parity
Glossary - 6
Multiple Subscriber Number.
A companding technique used for PCN
systems in North America. (Also
written as mu-law).
A standardised ISDN protocol used in
North America. Also referred to as NI
in this manual.
Non Frame Alignment Signal.
Northern Telecom. Also called Nortel
in this manual.
Network Termination.
Originating Line Identity.
Open Systems Interconnection.
The ISDN dialling digits are sent a digit
at a time, each in their own separate
call control packet.
Private Automatic Branch Exchange.
A simple mechanism for determining if
a single bit error has occurred when
individual characters are transmitted.
Parity is transmitted as an additional bit
in the character frame and may take the
values: NONE, ODD and EVEN.
NONE means that a parity bit is not
included i.e. no error detection. ODD
means that either a zero or a one is
transmitted such that the total number
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