The Jargon Buster Directory is your central resource for locating
an explanation to typical terms found for within all industries , professions
and governments.
Use our directory to locate and decipher jargon that you would like an
explanation for.
Keeping our directory up to date and to include all the spheres where jargon
is used is a never ending task for us. We have started with what we can locate
but but it is a vast subject and can be very niche specific.
Are you in a profession or industry that uses jargon that is NOT included
here? Then why not send us your own jargon buster text and we will include
it within our database. to say thank you we will provide you with a return
link back to your web site.
Telephony jargon is another sphere of phraseology that affects us
all - we all use the telephone for good and for evil.
Many niche jargon directories do not really affect the public but as phone
use is so high telephony jargon is definitely an area that
most of us need to know something about.
Whether it be mobile phones or land lines, our telephony jargon
directory will cover it all. People even use phone jargon themselves
without even knowing it.
As telephone use grows it will be exiting to see what other forms or
telephony jargon evolve to cater for new technologies that
the telephone will surely embrace.
Telephony jargon.
ACD Automatic Call Distribution ANI Automatic Number Identification API
Application Programming Interface ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode BRI Basic
Rate Interface - ISDN 2 CFTP Continuous Fault Tolerant Processing CLI Calling
Line Identity CO Central Office - USA term meaning Public Telephone Exchange
CCU Central Control Unit CPS Carrier Pre-Selection CPU Central Processor
Unit CTI Computer Telephony Integration DASS Digital Accessing Signalling
System DDI Direct Dialling In DISA Direct Inward Signalling Access DLL Dynamic
Link Library DPNSS Digital Private Network Signalling System DR Disaster
Recovery DSP Digital Signal Processor DTMF Dual Tone Multiple Frequency or
Touch Tone FAB Nothing - it's just FAB FMS Fax Messaging Server GUI Graphical
User Interface IR International Rescue ISV Independent Software Vendor IVR
Interactive Voice Response LAN Local Area Network LCR Least Cost Routing
LEM Lunar Excursion Module LAP Local Area Paging LD Loop Disconnect MAPI
Microsoft's Messaging API - Application Programming Interface MF Multi Frequency
MIS Management Information System MVIP Multi Vendor Integration Protocol
NIC Network Interface Cards NTS Novel Network Telephony Services PABX Private
Automatic Branch Exchange PBX Private Branch Exchange PC Personal Computer
POT Plain Ordinary Telephone PRI Primary Rate Interface - ISDN 30 PSTN Public
Switched Telephone Network PSU Power Supply Unit RAM Random Access Memory
RAS Remote Access Services RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing SCSA Signal
Computing Services Architecture SIG Spectrum Is Green SMDI System Management
Data Information SMS Short Message Service TAPI Telephone Application Programming
Interface - Microsoft's TSAPI Telephone System Application Programming Interface
CSTA Computer Supported Telephony Application CSTAPI Computer Supported Telephony
Application Programming Interface TBR Time Break Recall TUI Telephone User
Interface VMS Voice Messaging Server VAR Value Added Reseller VoIP Voice
over Internet Protocol VPN Virtual Private Network WAN Wide Area Network
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISDN 2 Basic Rate = 2 x 64Kbps
2B+D = 2 Channels of 64K also referred to as ''Bearer'' channels
and 1 referred to as ''Data'' or signalling Channel of 16K.
Total bandwidth is 128K. ISDN 30 Primary Rate = 32 x 64Kbps 30B + 2D Protocols:
DASS II, DPNSS & ETSI Q931 32 Channels = 30 Channels of 64K referred
to as ''Bearer'' Channels
and 2 referred to as ''Data'' or signalling Channels. Total bandwidth of
approximately 2 Megabits.