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LOSSARY OF

T

ERMS

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line: Modems attached to twisted pair copper wiring that transmit
from 1.5 Mbps to 9 Mbps downstream (to the subscriber) and from 16 kbps to 800 kbps upstream,
depending on line distance.

AGC
Automatic Gain Control is an

electronic

system

found in many types of devices. Its purpose is to

control the

gain

of a system in order to maintain some measure of performance over a changing range of

real world conditions.

ARP
Address Resolution Protocol is a protocol used by the

Internet Protocol (IP)

[

RFC826]

, specifically

IPv4, to map

IP network addresses

to the hardware addresses used by a data link protocol. The protocol

operates below the network layer as a part of the interface between the OSI network and OSI link layer. It
is used when

IPv4 is used over Ethernet


ATA
Analogue Telephone Adapter. Covert analogue telephone to be used in data network for VoIP, like
Grandstream HT series products.

CODEC
Abbreviation for Coder-Decoder. It's an analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A)
converter for translating the signals from the outside world to digital, and back again.

CNG
Comfort Noise Generator, generate artificial background

noise

used in

radio

and

wireless

communications to fill the

silent

time in a transmission resulting from

voice activity detection

.

DATAGRAM A data packet carrying its own address information so it can be independently routed from

ons of a signal in order to reduce the amount of information to be encoded or

ompressed. Lossy compression algorithms ordinarily decimate while sub-sampling.

andard Institute from 1988, governing pan-European digital mobile telephony.

ECT covers wireless PBXs, telepoint, residential cordless telephones, wireless access to the public

nd twelve full-duplex accesses per carrier, for a total

f 120 possible combinations. A DECT base station (an RFP, Radio Fixed Part) can transmit all 12

ted from the RFP within a multi-frame (16 frames). Voice signals are

igitally encoded into a 32 Kbit/s signal using Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation.

its source to the destination computer

DECIMATE
To discard porti
c

DECT
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications: A standard developed by the European
Telecommunication St
D
switched telephone network, Closed User Groups (CUGs), Local Area Networks, and wireless local loop.
The DECT Common Interface radio standard is a multi-carrier time division multiple access, time division
duplex (MC-TDMA-TDD) radio transmission technique using ten radio frequency channels from 1880 to
1930 MHz, each divided into 24 time slots of 10ms, a
o
possible accesses (time slots) simultaneously by using different frequencies or using only one frequency.
All signaling information is transmit
d

DNS
Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an

Internet

service that translates

domain

names

into IP addresses

going

rough an attendant or auto-attendant.

lized CPU used for digital signal processing. Grandstream

roducts all have DSP chips built inside.

nals for dialing

sing in-band signaling. The standards define 16 tone-pairs (0-9, #, * and A-F) although most terminals


DID
Direct Inward Dialing. The ability for an outside caller to dial to a PBX extension without
th

DSP
Digital Signal Processor. A specia
p

DTMF
Dual Tone Multi Frequency. The standard tone-pairs used on telephone termi
u
support only 12 of them (0-9, * and #).

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