Deutsche Telekom 704PC manual Ppp

Appendix

PPP

This stands for "point-to-point protocol," a network protocol used for connecting to the Internet via a modem.

Pulse dialling

A dialling procedure in which the dialling signals are transmitted in the form of electri- cal impulses, as used by telephones with rotary dialling disks, for instance.

Reset communications system

You can deactivate or delete all activated features and activate the default (factory) settings instead.

Router

A component of the system software that uses the time-sharing procedure to distrib- ute data streams between the Internet and the connected PCs.

SMS

Short Message Service, i.e. short messages transmitted to and from mobile tele- phones and fixed-line networks.

S0 port

The international standardised ISDN interface for connecting communications sys- tems and/or up to eight ISDN devices.

Speed dialling

You can store up to 100 numbers and dial them using a two-digit speed-dialling code.

TAE

The standardised units for connecting analogue devices in the telephone network in Germany are the TAE socket and the TAE plug.

TAPI

Stands for "Telephony Application Programming Interface," and is a programming interface in Microsoft Windows used by Windows programs to control telephony func- tions, e.g. dialling wizards.

TCP/IP

Stands for "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol," and is a transmission protocol for networks also used for connecting to the Internet.

T-DSL

Broadband Internet access with transfer rates of up to 768 kbit/s downstream and 128 kbit/s upstream.

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