
Quadro Manual III: Extension User's Guide Extension User’s Menus
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signaling. Additional features may include interfaces to external controllers, such as gatekeepers or soft-switches, billing systems, and network
management systems.
IP PBX - an enterprise-based IP data network device that switches VoIP telephone traffic.
IP Telephony - a technology that allows voice phone calls to be made over the Internet or other packet networks using a PC via gateways and
standard telephones.
IPSec - is used to provide security for transmission of sensitive information over unprotected networks such as the Internet. IPSec acts at the
network layer, protecting and authenticating IP packets between participating IPSec devices ("peers"), such as Cisco routers.
J
Jitter Buffer - the buffer that collects incoming packets to place them in the right order. If the network has a high delay variation, increasing the Jitter
Buffer can improve the audio quality, but this also increases the delay.
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LED - Light-Emitting Diode, A semiconductor device that emits visible light when conducting current. Has replaced incandescent lamps as indicators
in most electronic equipment.
Lifeline POTS - a voice telephone line that works even if electricity is cut off at the customer premises, since the line is powered from emergency
backup at the central office. Multiple lifeline POTS lines can be delivered on one copper pair with the use of a digital line powered pair gain system. A
basic telephone service supplying standard single line telephones, telephone lines, and access to the PSTN.
Local Area Network (LAN) - a short distance data communications network (typically within a building or campus) used to link computers and
peripheral devices under some form of standard control.
Login -the procedure of identifying a user with a username and a password to enter into the protected field.
M
Many Extensions Ringing - a Quadro service that allows configuring several users over Quadro to ring simultaneously when a specific call arrives.
Media Access Control (MAC) Address - the address for a device as it is identified at the Media Access Control layer in the network architecture.
Media Access Control (MAC) Layer - is one of two sublayers that make up the Data Link Layer of the
OSI model. The MAC layer is responsible for
moving data
packets to and from one Network Interface Card (NIC) to another across a shared channel.
Media Gateway - a generic class of products grouped under the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). A major function of the media gateway is
simple IP/TDM conversion under the control of a softswitch.
N
Name server - a directory service that provides a mapping between a resource’s global name and its physical location in the network.
Network Address Translation (NAT) - is used to allow LAN devices that do not have their own static IP addresses to connect to the Internet
sharing an IP address. NAT will assume control of assigning their IP address. Furthermore, the NAT takes care that packets will reach the LAN PC
that originated the traffic. This mechanism is absolutely transparent for the users (or the PCs in the LAN).
Network Time Protocol (NTP) - a protocol that is used for time counting in the Internet, based on the atomic clocks with the precision in
milliseconds. This is the recommended protocol for synchronizing the time of hosts in the network.
P
Packetization Interval - the time interval between two RTP packets of the same stream. If the interval is increased, the overhead is decreased but
the voice quality might deteriorate. If the interval is decreased, the network load is increased and the delay is reduced.
Password - a secret alphanumeric string used to identify and to allow the user to have access to a system.
PCM - a form of modulation in which the information signals are sampled at regular intervals and a series of pulses in coded form are transmitted
representing the amplitude of the information signal at that time.
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - allows a computer to connect to the Internet with a standard dial-up telephone line and a high-speed modem and to
enjoy most of the benefits of the direct connection.
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) - enables virtual private networking - enabling secure remote access to corporate networks over the
Internet.
POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) - is the standard telephone service that most homes use. It is also referred to as the PSTN, or the Public
Switched Telephone Network
Private Branch Exchange (PBX) - a telephone switch owned privately, usually by a large company. If it owns a PBX, a company does not need to
lease a telephone line for each telephone set at a site.
Proxy server - an intermediate device that receives SIP requests from a client and then initiates requests on the client's behalf.
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) - refers to the local telephone company.
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Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) - the Internet-standard protocol for the transport of real-time data, including audio and video, allows
applications to synchronize audio and video information. RTP connections are established between servers across the Internet after voice has been
converted to IP format. RTP is used in virtually all Voice-over-IP architectures, for videoconferencing, media-on-demand, and other applications.
Real-Time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) - is the control protocol that works in conjunction with RTP. RTCP control packets are periodically
transmitted by each participant in an RTP session to all other participants. Feedback of information to the application can be used to control
performance and for diagnostic purposes.
Registration - procedure of user subscribing to a server. Usually some personal parameters such as username, password, etc., are required upon
registration.
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