Acronyms
AC |
Alternating Current |
ACS |
Access Control Server |
A/D |
Analog To Digital Converter |
AES |
Advanced Encryption Standard |
ANC |
Anonymous Call |
AP |
Access Point |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
B2BUA |
Back to Back User Agent |
BLF |
Busy Lamp Field |
Bool |
Boolean Values. Specified as yes and no, or 1 and 0 in the profile |
BootP |
Bootstrap Protocol |
CA |
Certificate Authority |
CAS |
CPE Alert Signal |
CDP |
Cisco Discovery Protocol |
CDR |
Call Detail Record |
CGI |
Computer-Generated Mmagery |
CID |
Caller ID |
CIDCW |
Call Waiting Caller ID |
CNG |
Comfort Noise Generation |
CPC |
Calling Party Control |
CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
CSV |
Comma separated value |
CWCID |
Call Waiting Caller ID |
CWT |
Call Waiting Tone |
D/A |
Digital to Analog Converter |
dB |
decibel |
dBm |
dB with respect to 1 milliwatt |
DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
DND |
Do not disturb |
DNS |
Domain Name System |
DoS |
Denial of service |
DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
DSL |
Digital Subscriber Loop |
DSP |
Digital Signal Processor |
DST |
Daylight Saving Time |
DTAS |
Data Terminal Alert Signal (same as CAS) |
DTMF |
Dual Tone Multiple Frequency |
FQDN |
Fully Qualified Domain Name |
FSK |
Frequency Shift Keying |
FW |
Firmware |
FXS |
Foreign eXchange Station |
GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time |
GW |
Gateway |
HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPS |
HTTP over SSL |
ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
IGMP |
Internet Group Management Protocol |
ILEC |
Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier |
IP |
Internet Protocol |
IPv4 |
Internet Protocol version 4 |
IPv6 |
Internet Protocol version 6 |
ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
ITSP |
Internet Telephony Service Provider |
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
IVR |
Interactive Voice Response |
LAN |
Local Area Network |
LBR |
Low Bit Rate |
LBRC |
Low Bit Rate Codec |
LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display; also known as a screen |
LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LED |
Light-Emiting Diode |
MAC address |
Media Access Control Address |
MC |
Mini-Certificate |
MGCP |
Media Gateway Control Protocol |
MOH |
Music On Hold |
MOS |
Mean Opinion Score (1-5, the higher the better) |
MPP |
Multiplatform Phones |
ms |
Millisecond |
MSA |
Music Source Adaptor |
MWI |
Message Waiting Indication |
NAT |
Network Address Translation |
NPS |
Normal Provisioning Server |
NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
OOB |
Out-of-band |
OSI |
Open Switching Interval |
PBX |
Private branch exchange |
PCB |
Printed Circuit Board |
PoE |
Power over Ethernet |
PR |
Polarity Reversal |
PS |
Provisioning Server |
PSQM |
Perceptual Speech Quality Measurement (1-5, the lower the better) |
PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
QoS |
Quality of service |
RC |
Remove Customization |
REQT |
(SIP) Request Message |
RESP |
(SIP) Response Message |
RSC |
(SIP) Response Status Code, such as 404, 302, 600 |
RTP |
Real Time Protocol |
RTT |
Round Trip Time |
SAS |
Streaming Audio Server |
SDP |
Session Description Protocol |
SDRAM |
Synchronous DRAM |
sec |
seconds |
SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
SLA |
Shared line appearance |
SLIC |
Subscriber Line Interface Circuit |
SP |
Service Provider |
SSL |
Secure Socket Layer |
STUN |
Session Traversal UDP for NAT |
TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
TFTP |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
TTL |
Time to live |
ToS |
Type of service |
UA |
User Agent |
uC |
Micro-controller |
UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
VAR |
Value Added Reseller |
VLAN |
Voice LAN |
VM |
Voicemail |
VMWI |
Visual Message Waiting Indication/Indicator |
VoIP |
Voice over Internet Protocol |
VQ |
Voice Quality |
WAN |
Wide Area Network |
XML |
Extensible Markup Language |