Nortel Networks COMMUNICATION SERVER 1000 NN43021-110 User Manual

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List of terms

CBT

Core Bus Terminator

Common Equipment

Central Office (CO)

The site where a telephone company terminates customer lines
and houses the switching equipment that interconnects those
lines.

central processing unit (CPU)

The main portion of a computer that contains the primary storage,
arithmetic and logic units, and the control unit (may also mean a
mainframe computer).

circuit cards

Cards which carry the electronics for particular functions (such as
memory and switching functions). Most cards are housed in the
card cage in a module and connect to the backplane. Some cards
must be installed in dedicated slots in a card cage. (Also called
circuit packs or boards.)

CNI

Core-to-Network Interface

See Central Office.

Common Equipment (CE)

A hardware subsystem that houses one or more central
processing units (CPUs), memory cards, disk drive units, and
service cards.

configuration

A group of machines (hardware) that are interconnected and are
programmed to operate as a system.

Call Processor

cPCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect. PCI provides a high-speed
data path between the CPU and peripheral devices (video, disk,
network, etc.).

Nortel Communication Server 1000

Communication Server 1000M and Meridian 1 Large System Overview

NN43021-110

02.05

Standard

30 September 2008