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Remote Gateway 9150 Installation and Administration Guide
Glossary
Standard 3.1
Application Program Interface
A set of routines, protocols, and tools that programmers use to develop software
applications. APIs simplify the development process by providing commonly
used programming procedures.
Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) applications
A separate system or built-in feature of a PBX that equally distributes incoming
calls to agents. As calls come in, they are placed into a queue (or a waiting line)
for the next available agent. The RLC and its associated remote units support all
of Nortel’s ACD applications.
B
bandwidth
The amount of data that the network can transmit, usually expressed in Mbytes
per second.
baseboard
Refer to motherboard.
Basic Input/Output System
Flash ROM-based code that runs the Power-On Self-Test (POST) and bootstrap
loader. BIOS contains low-level access routines for hardware that can be called
from DOS.
BIOS
Refer to Basic Input/Output System.
bit
Short for binary digit, the smallest unit of information on a machine. A single bit
can hold only one of two values: 0 or 1.
branch station
A telephone set or fax machine located at the Remote Gateway 9150 site.
BRI
Basic Rate Interface. An ISDN subscriber service that uses two B (64 Kbps)
channels and one D (64 Kbps) channel to transmit voice, video, and data signals.