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Glossary
Enhanced Service
Center
ESF
ESS
expansion carrier
ExpressRoute
1000
extended
superframe format
extension
extension jack
extension
programming
F
facility
Facility Restriction
Level
factory setting
fax
An application that sends calls to available agents in a
calling group. The Enhanced Service Center places calls in
queue, plays announcements, tracks agent activity and
availability, and provides real-time reports.
(extended superframe format) PRI framing format
consisting of individual frames of 24 eight-bit slots and one
signal bit (193 bits) in a 24-frame extended superframe.
(Electronic Switching System) Class of central office ( CO )
switching systems developed by Lucent Technologies in
which the control functions are performed principally by
electronic data processors operating under the direction of
a stored program.
Carrier added to the control unit when the basic carrier
cannot house all of the required modules. Houses a power
supply module and up to six additional modules.
Data communications device that allows connection
between an RS-232 DTE device and the control unit using
MLX extension jacks on the 008 MLX or 408 GS/LS-MLX
module.
See ESF .
An endpoint on the internal side of the communications
system. An extension can be a telephone with or without an
adjunct. Also called "station." See also data workstation.
An analog, digital, or tip/ring physical interface on a module
in the control unit for connecting a telephone or other
device to the system. Also called "station jack."
Programming performed at an extension to customize
telephones for personal needs; users can program features
on buttons, set the telephone ringing pattern, and so on.
See also centralized telephone programming and system
programming .
Equipment (often a line / trunk ) constituting a
telecommunications path between the system and the
telephone company central office ( CO ).
See FRL .
Default state of a device or feature when an optional setting
is not programmed by the user or system manager.
(facsimile) Scanning and transmission of a graphic image
over a telecommunications facility, or the resulting
reproduced image, or the machine that does the scanning
and transmitting.
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