Talk-a-Phone WEBS-PA-1 Configuration And Operation Manual page 5

Acronyms and Abbreviations
Following is the list of commonly used acronyms and abbreviations in the document.
Acronyms Definition
4BSKH One of the Device mode having four buttons, speaker, keypad, and handset.
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
AEC Acoustic Echo Cancellation
The American National Standards Institute a private non-profit organization that
ANSI oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products,
services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
Auxiliary Input/Output. An Auxiliary Input accepts a contact closure from an
external device, such as a Vehicle Detector, Door Switch, Scream Alert
AUX
card swipe. An auxiliary output produces a contact closure to an external
device, such as a strobe light and motorized garage gate.
BABT British Approvals Board of Telecommunications
Comfort Noise Generator/Voice Activity Detector. It is used to reduce the
CNG/VAD transmission rate during inactive speech periods while maintaining an
acceptable level of output quality.
CSA Canadian Standards Association
The CE marking certifies that a product has met EU consumer safety, health or
CE
environmental requirements.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol — protocol for assigning dynamic IP
DHCP
addresses to devices on a network.
DNS Domain Name Server
Dual Tone Multi Frequency signaling is used for telecommunication signaling
DTMF
over telephone lines.
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GUI Graphical User Interface
G.711 is codec also known as Pulse Code Modulation (PCM). It is the ITU-T
G.711
international standard for encoding telephone audio on a 64 kbps channel.
G.723 G.723 is an ITU-T standard speech codec.
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