Glossary of Telecom Terms

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A

ACD - Automatic Call Distribution

ADSL

ALG

Alternating loopback

AMI

Analog Signal

ANI

Application Layer

ARIN

ASN

ASR

ATA

ATM

Availability

B

B8ZS

Backbone

Backup connection

Bandwidth

Baud Rate

B Channel

BGP

BLA

BN

BPL

BRI

C

Carriers

CEF

CFA

CIDR

CIR

Class C

CLEC

CLID

Cloud

CO

Codec

CPA

CPE

CPU

CSMA

CSU/DSU

CTI

D

D Channel

DEMARC

DHCP

DIA

DID

DNIS

DNS

DSLAM

DSP

Dynamic IP

DTMF

Demarc Extension

E

E.164 Numbering

E911 Compliance

EBGP

Edge router

E-mail buffering

ELS

Expedite Order

F

Facilities

FCC

Fiber

FOC

Fractional T1

Fractional T3

FXO

FDDI

G

gateway

Gbps


H

HTTP

HSSI

I

IAD

ILEC

InterLATA

Internet

IntraLATA

IP Address

IP-PBX

ISP

IXC

IP Telephony

IP

IVR Interactive Voice Response

J

jitter

K

kbps


L

lag

LAN

LATA

Latency

LEC

LI

LNP

LOA

Load balancing

M

Mbps

Meet point

MFR

MGCP

MLPPP

MOS

MOS score

MPL

MPOE

MRC

MUX

N

NAP

NAT

Newfeed

NRC

O

ODMR

One-way Audio

Over-subscription

P

Packets

Packet loss

PBX

Peering

PoE

POP

Portability

POTs

PPP

Predictive Dialer

Premise

PRI

Primary DNS

Protocol

Provisioning Company

PSTN

Q

QoS


R

Rate Center

RBOC

Redundancy

Routers

RTP

RSVP

S

Session Border Controller (SBC)

SDSL

Secondary DNS

SIP

SIP-B

SLA

Smart Jack

SMTP

Static IP

SWIP

SNMP

Sonet

T

T1

T3

TCP/IP

Throughput

Trouble Ticket

TTL

TOS

TTS Text To Speech (IVR implementation)

U


V

VAR

VBS - Voice Broadcast Services

VoIP

Voice broadcasting

W

WAN

WIN

X


Y


Z

Z   ZIP The file extension which refers to archives that were created by the program PKZIP. You need the program PKUNZIP to get the files out of the archive.

Zmodem A file transfer protocol which is known for its speed, as well as the ability to transfer information about the files which it sends. It has crash recovery and auto-download features, and can use a 32 bit CRC, which makes it almost error-free.






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