lapdid

The term lapdid has its origins with the LAP-D protocol used for call

 

control, but has an extended meaning for Brooktrout products. For

 

call control for all protocols, trunk 1 = lapdid 0, trunk 2 = lapdid 2,

 

trunk 3 = lapdid 4 and trunk 4 = lapdid 6.

LEC

Local Exchange Carrier

Line

A T1/E1 slot or a single analog slot. Lines are numbered starting at

 

1.

Logical channel number

A number used with the hardware module number to reference a

 

channel in a system. Channel 0 is reserved and channel 1 is the

 

administrative channel. Other channels are numbered from

 

2 to n+1 (where n is the number of work channels defined for the

 

module).

Millennium Address

An address of a communicating Boston or Millennium entity such as

 

a facility and channel on a Boston module or the Boston device

 

driver. Each address consists of 4 components, the facility, the

 

channel, the module, and the machine. It is possible to make use of

 

most features of the firmware and the APIs without requiring direct

 

use of these addresses.

Module

A communicating Boston entity that usually represents a CPU on a

 

Brooktrout board, a host application, or the Boston driver. See

 

section TBS for more information about modules and module

 

number assignment.

NVRAM

Non-Volatile RAM. Random Access Memory that is not erased when

 

the board is powered off or when the firmware is downloaded again.

Ordinal channel number

A number in the range 0 to n-1 where n is the total number of work

 

channels on all the boards in the system.

Packet

In the Boston architecture, a sequence of bytes containing a Boston

 

destination address, source address, and one or more commands.

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PDF

Portable Document Format

Port

A TDM bus (MVIP, H110, etc.) or a DS-1 interface (T1/E1).

RBS

Robbed-Bit Signaling

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