Cti link – Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND 6 User Manual
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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.0
System Manager’s Guide
555-660-118
Issue 1
February 1998
Glossary
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CSU
(channel service unit) Equipment used on customer
premises to provide
DS1 facility terminations and signaling
compatibility.
CTI link
(Computer Telephony Integration) link. A
hardware/software feature that is part of the PassageWay
Telephony Services application. It allows the use of Lucent
Technologies-certified software applications on a
LAN
running Novell NetWare software in a
Hybrid/PBX mode
system. These applications may provide special features
for client control of such calling activities as power dialing.
See also
cyclic redundancy
check
D4 framing format
Framing format consisting of a sequence of individual
frames of 24 eight-
bit slots and one signal bit (193 bits) in a
12-frame superframe. See also
Data-channel
data
communications
equipment
See
DCE.
data module
A type of
ISDN terminal adapter that acts as the DCE at a
data workstation that communicates over high-speed digital
facilities.
data rate
See
bps.
data station
Special type of extension where data communications take
place; includes
DTE and DCE; sometimes a telephone is
also part of a data station.
data terminal
An input/output device (often a personal computer) that can
be connected to the control unit via an interface.
data terminal
equipment
DTE and data terminal.
data workstation
Special type of extension where data communications take
place; includes
DTE and DCE; sometimes a telephone is
also part of a data workstation.
DCE
(data communications equipment) Equipment such as
modems or ISDN terminal adapters used to establish,
maintain, and terminate a connection between the system
and data terminal equipment (
DTE), such as printers,
personal computers, host computers, or network
workstations.
DCP
(Digital Communications Protocol) AT&T proprietary
protocol to transmit digitized voice and data over the same
communications link.