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Chapter 10.Appendix A: Glossary
Chapter 10
SHARK™ IAD User's Guide
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T
IP
One conductor of a telephone wire pair, designated by T.
T
IP
S
TATUS
Transmission state of an unconfigured channel. In the Channel-bank menu the tip status is either
busy or idle.
TR08
A Bellcore standard describing a digital interface between the SLC-96 digital loop carrier system
and a local digital switch.
T
RUNK
A transmission channel connecting two switching devices.
T
RUNK
S
IGNALING
The handshaking used to communicate on a trunk such as loop start and ground start.
TWISTED PAIR
Cable consisting of two copper strands twisted around each other. The twisting provides
protection against electromagnetic interference.
- U -
UDP
User Datagram Protocol. A simple, datagram-oriented transport-layer protocol. A TCP/IP
protocol describing how messages reach applications programs within a destination computer.
This protocol is normally bundled with IP layer software. UDP is a transport layer,
connectionless mode protocol, providing a (potentially unreliable, unsequenced, and /or
duplicated) datagram mode of communication for delivery of packets to a remote or local user.
UTP
Unshielded twisted pair cable.
- V -
VC
Virtual circuit. Network facilities that give the appearance to the user of an actual end-to-end
circuit. A communications link set up on a per-call basis of either voice or data that appears to
the user to be a dedicated point to point circuit.
VCC
Virtual circuit connection. Same as permanent virtual connection (PVC).
VCI
Virtual circuit identifier. A unique numerical tag, defined by a 16 bit field in the ATM cell
header, that identifies a VC over which a stream of cells is to travel during the course of a
particular session between devices.
VC-
MUX
Virtual circuit multiplexing. Encapsulation method that performs multiplexing of higher-layer
protocols using ATM virtual circuits.
VJ
Van Jacobson. Abbreviation for a compression standard documented in RFC 1144.
VP
Virtual path.