AT&T AT&T Auxiliary Equipment, Auxiliary Trunk, Bit Binary Digit, Bridge Bridging, Buffer, Bus

Attendant Console

●Direct Trunk or Switched Loop Attendant Console: An electronic

call-handling position with pushbutton control. Used by attendants to answer and place calls and to manage and monitor some system operations.

●Direct Extension Selector Console: Provides the attendant with a visual

indication of the active or idle status of extension numbers assigned in the system. Also allows the attendant to place calls to system users by operation of appropriate H u n d r e d s G r o u p S e l e c t b u t t o n s a n d a s s o c i a t e d D i r e c t Extension Selection (DXS) buttons.

Auxiliary Equipment

●Dictation Equipment

●Delay Announcement Devices

● External Alerting Devices (external alerts)

●Music-On-Hold Equipment

●Paging Equipment

Auxiliary Trunk

A trunk circuit used to connect auxiliary equipment to the switch, for example, music or dictation equipment.

BLF: (Busy Lamp Field)

BPS: (Bits Per Second)

Bit (Binary Digit)

One unit of information in binary notation (having two possible states or values, zero or one).

Bridge (Bridging)

The sharing of the same extension by two or more voice terminals.

Buffer

A circuit or component that isolates one electrical circuit from another. Typically, a buffer holds data from one circuit or process until another circuit or process is ready to accept the data.

Bus

Amulti-conductor electrical path used connection from any of several sources to

to transfer information over a common any of several destinations.

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