Nortel Networks 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.).

cPCI Transition card

Peripheral Component Interconnect Transition Card. Connects the Core
module cards to the 3PE cards in the Network modules.

Nortel Communication Server 1000

Communication Server 1000M and Meridian 1 Large System Overview

NN43021-110

01.03

Standard

Release 5.0

18 February 2008