Panasonic 15000 manual Bwod, Cac

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List of terms

BWOD

See bandwidth on demand (BWOD) (page 18).

cable management area

One of the four divisions of the shelf. It allows orderly management of cables and acts as an exhaust duct for hot air.

cache management system (CMS)

A feature that allows the user to configure the IP local cache table size.

CAC

See connection admission control (CAC) (page 33).

call

Communication between two subscribers who are connected to endpoints of the network.

call correlation tag (CCT)

An identifier, unique for each call, provided in the accounting record to facilitate off-switch correlation of several records issued at different interfaces in the network.

call establishment

Establishing a call between two access services across a network.

call management

The capability of the Nortel Multiservice Switch accounting system to prevent the loss of accounting records by only accepting new SVC calls if the system has enough resources to process the accounting records associated with the SVC call. Call management is engineered for each logical processor.

call preservation

See connection preservation (page 34).

call redirection server (CRS)

Provides call redirection for DPRS services on Nortel Multiservice Switch node-only networks. A CRS improves an application’s availability by redirecting a call attempt that would otherwise fail because the destination cannot be reached. Call redirection servers are located on function processors that are spread throughout the routing identifier (RID) subnet in the DPRS network.

call router (CR)

Provides the translation of a DNA to a routable identity.

Nortel Multiservice Switch 7400/15000/20000

Terminology

NN10600-005 7.2S1 Standard

PCR7.2 and up March 2006

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