Glossary

 

Electro-magnetic Interference (EMI)

 

 

Electro-magnetic

Equipment used in high speed data systems, including ATM, that generate and transmit

Interference (EMI)

many signals in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Interference

 

to other equipment or radio services may result if sufficient power from these signals

 

escape the equipment enclosures or transmission media. National and international

 

regulatory agencies (FCC, CISPR, etc.) set limits for these emissions. Class A is for

 

industrial use and Class B is for residential use.

Ethernet

Ethernet is a particular network topology and protocol, especially useful in LANs. It comes

 

in various speeds and is often regarded as THE current technology for general network

 

direct connection. The current connectivity is generally considered to be 10Base-T or

 

100Base-T, while the backbone, if one is used, is coaxial cable or Fiber optics. There is also

 

a 1000Base-T for certain specialty copper joining situations.

Facilities Data Link

FDL supports the communication of various network information in the form of in-service

(FDL)

monitoring and diagnostics.

filter

An operating parameter used with routers that can be set to block the transfer of packets

 

from one LAN to another.

firewall

Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access

 

to a computer network and/or may monitor the transfer of information to and from the

 

network.

frame

A fragment of data that is packaged into a frame format, which comprises a header,

 

payload, and trailer.

Frame Reject (FRMR)

The FRMR response frame is sent to report the receiver of a frame cannot successfully

 

process that frame and that the error condition is not correctable by sending the offending

 

frame again.

Foreign Exchange

A Central Office trunk which has access to a distant central office. Dial Tone is returned

 

from that distant Central Office, and a location can be reached in the area of the foreign

 

Central Office by dialing a local number. This will provide easier access for customers in

 

that area and calls may be made anywhere in the foreign exchange area for a flat rate.

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange (FX) service is a service that can be ordered from the telephone company

Service

that provides local telephone service from a central office which is outside (foreign to) the

 

subscriber’s exchange area. Simply, a user can pick up the phone in one city and receive a

 

dial tone in the foreign city. This kind of connection is provided by a type of trunk called

 

foreign exchange (FX) trunk. FX trunk signaling can be provided over analog or T-1 links.

 

Connecting POTS telephones to a computer telephony system via T-1 links requires a

 

channel bank configured with FX type connections.

G.711

ITU-T Recommendation for an algorithm designed to transmit and receive A-law and mu-

 

law PCM voice at digital bit rates of 48, 56, and 64 Kbps. It is used for digital telephone

 

sets on digital PBX and ISDN channels.

G.729

International Telecommunications Union’s standard voice algorithm (CS-ACELP) voice

 

algorithm for the coding of encoding/decoding of speech at 8 Kbps using conjugate-

 

structure, algebraic-code excited linear predictive methods. Described in the ITU-T

 

standard in its G-series recommendations.

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