Glossary

ced

See Customer-entered digits.

charge advice

See Advice of Charge

charge units

Used in countries outside the US, this is a network charge for a call based on the number of charge units used. A charge unit is of variable length of time associated with a fixed cost. Assignment of duration of charge time and cost varies from country to county.

CINFO

See Caller INformation FOrwarding.

Class of Restriction

A feature that allows definition of up to 96 classes of call-origination and call-termination restrictions for telephones, telephone groups, data modules, and trunk groups.

Collected digits

Touch-tone digits entered by a caller and collected by a collect digits vector step. See also dial-ahead digits.

CMS

Call Management System

Controlled Call

A call for which an ASAI adjunct has Third Party Call Control. Controlled calls include calls controlled via Third Party (Single Call) Call Control and Third Party Domain (Station) Control associations.

Controlled Station

A station being monitored and controlled via a domain-control association.

CONVERSANT VIS

A Lucent Technologies Voice Response Unit product often used with the DEFINITY ECS to perform call screening, redirection, and data collection functions.

Converse session

The period of time during which a call is under the control of a converse vector step and the calling party is interacting with a Voice Response Unit (VRU) or ACD agent.

Converse split

A split/skill or hunt group accessed by a converse vector step. (The term “non-converse split” is used to signify any split/skill or hunt group accessed by a queue to main or check backup vector step.)

COR

Class of Restriction

COS

Class of Service

CS

Code Set (term used to distinguish between different meanings assigned to cause values; code set 0 is standard ISDN, code set is used for special services)

Cost of a Call

The cost that the public network reports for a given call. This can take the form of charge units that have accrued during the call, or the actual cost of the call represented in local currency.

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