Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND 6 System Manager's Manual page 432

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Glossary
CSU
CTI link
cyclic redundancy
check
D
D4 framing format
Data-channel
data
communications
equipment
data module
data rate
data station
data terminal
data terminal
equipment
data workstation
DCE
DCP
(channel service unit) Equipment used on customer
premises to provide DS1 facility terminations and signaling
compatibility.
(Computer Telephony Integration) link. A
hardware/software feature that is part of the PassageWay
Telephony Services application. It allows the use of Lucent
Technologies-certified software applications on a LAN
running Novell NetWare software in a Hybrid/PBX mode
system. These applications may provide special features
for client control of such calling activities as power dialing.
See also screen pop.
See CRC .
Framing format consisting of a sequence of individual
frames of 24 eight- bit slots and one signal bit (193 bits) in a
12-frame superframe. See also ESF .
See D-channel .
See DCE .
A type of ISDN terminal adapter that acts as the DCE at a
data workstation that communicates over high-speed digital
facilities.
See bps .
Special type of extension where data communications take
place; includes DTE and DCE ; sometimes a telephone is
also part of a data station.
An input/output device (often a personal computer) that can
be connected to the control unit via an interface.
See DTE and data terminal .
Special type of extension where data communications take
place; includes DTE and DCE ; sometimes a telephone is
also part of a data workstation.
(data communications equipment) Equipment such as
modems or ISDN terminal adapters used to establish,
maintain, and terminate a connection between the system
and data terminal equipment ( DTE ), such as printers,
personal computers, host computers, or network
workstations.
(Digital Communications Protocol) AT&T proprietary
protocol to transmit digitized voice and data over the same
communications link.
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