Glossary - Avaya G650 Installing

Glossary

Numerics
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A
AC
access code
ACD
adjunct
Adjunct-Switch
Application
Interface (ASAI)
administer
administration
terminal
alarm
American National
Standards Institute
(ANSI)
American Standard
Code for
Information
Interchange (ASCII)
American Wire
Gauge (AWG)
analog
Fast Ethernet IEEE standard for 10-Mbps baseband and 100-Mbps baseband
over unshielded twisted-pair wire.
Alternating current
A dial code of 1 digit to 3 digits that a user dials to activate a feature, cancel a
feature, or access an outgoing trunk.
See automatic call distributor
A computer or other device that connects to a second device, and that performs
one or more tasks for the second device. For example, the Avaya Intuity AUDIX
system or the Avaya Call Management System (CMS)
Avaya DEFINITY Server.
A recommendation for interfacing
features to adjuncts. ASAI provides for activities such as event notification and
call control. The ASAI interface protocol is based on the CCITT Q.932
specification for Layer 3.
The process of setting up and changing parameters that are associated with the
services or the feature of a system.
A terminal that is used to
A system-generated indication that a fault is present.
A professional technical association that supports standards for transmission,
protocol, and high-level languages, and that represents the US in the
International Organization for Standards. ANSI standards are for voluntary use
in the US.
The standard code that small computers use to convert letters, characters,
numbers, and control codes into digital form. Each character is represented by
an 8-bit code that includes a parity bit.
The US standard to measure the gauge of copper, aluminum, and other
nonferrous conductors.
The representation of information by continuously variable physical quantities
such as amplitude, frequency, and phase.
(ACD).
adjuncts and
administer and maintain a system.
can be adjuncts to an
COSs to extend telephony
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