Cisco Systems ATA 188, ATA 186 manual GL-5

P

POTS

Proxy Server

PSTN

Glossary

Plain old telephone service. Basic telephone service supplying standard single-line telephones, telephone lines, and access to the PSTN.

An intermediary program that acts as both a server and a client for the purpose of making requests on behalf of other clients. Requests are serviced internally or by passing them on, possibly after translation, to other servers. A proxy interprets and, if necessary, rewrites a request message before forwarding it.

Public switched telephone network.

Q

QoS

Quality of Service. The capability of a network to provide better service to selected network traffic over various technologies, including Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Ethernet and

802.1networks, SONET, and IP-routed networks that may use any or all of these underlying technologies. The primary goal of QoS is to provide priority including dedicated bandwidth, controlled jitter and latency (required by some real-time and interactive traffic), and improved loss characteristics.

R

Redirect Server

Registrar Server

router

RTP

A redirect server is a server that accepts a SIP request, maps the address into zero or more new addresses, and returns these addresses to the client. It does not initiate its own SIP request or accept calls.

A registrar server is a server that accepts Register requests. A registrar is typically co-located with a proxy or redirect server and may offer location services.

Network layer device that uses one or more metrics to determine the optimal path along which network traffic should be forwarded. Routers forward packets from one network to another based on network layer information. Occasionally called a gateway (although this definition of gateway is becoming increasingly outdated). Compare with gateway.

Real-Time Transport Protocol. One of the IPv6 protocols. RTP is designed to provide end-to-end network transport functions for applications transmitting real-time data, such as audio, video, or simulation data, over multicast or unicast network services. RTP provides services such as payload type identification, sequence numbering, timestamping, and delivery monitoring to real-time applications.

S

SCCP		Signaling connection control part.
SDP		Session Definition Protocol. An IETF protocol for the definition of Multimedia Services. SDP
		messages can be part of SGCP and MGCP messages.
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