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Glossary of Terms
HTTPS A secure version of HTTP.
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force, the organization that produces standards for
communications on the internet.
LAN Local Area Network.
MAC Media Access Control, ID of an endpoint.
QoS Quality of Service, used to refer to several mechanisms intended to improve audio
quality over packet-based networks.
RTCP Real-time Transport Control Protocol.
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol.
SRTCP Secure Real-time Transport Control Protocol.
SRTP Secure Real-time Transport Protocol.
System - Specific to a particular type of call server, for example, Avaya Communication
specific Manager (CM). "System-specific signaling" refers to messages specific to the
signaling protocol used by the system, for example, H.323 and/or CCMS messages
used by CM and IP Office. "System-specific procedures" refers to telephone software
procedures that are specific to the call server with which the software is intended to
be used.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, a connection-oriented transport-layer protocol.
TLS Transport Layer Security, an enhancement of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). TLS is
compatible with SSL 3.0 and allows for privacy and data integrity between two
communicating applications.
UDP User Datagram Protocol, a connectionless transport-layer protocol.
Unnamed Registration with Avaya Communication Manager by an IP telephone with no
Registration extension. Allows limited outgoing calling.
URI & URL Uniform Resource Identifier and Uniform Resource Locator. Names for the strings
used to reference resources on the Internet (for example, HTTP://....). URI is the
newer term.
VLAN Virtual LAN.
VoIP Voice over IP, a class of technology for sending audio data and signaling over LANs.
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