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List of terms
cold standby
Applications and features that operate with a standby instance that is not synchronized with the active instance of the software. During an equipment switchover, cold standby applications incur longer outages than hot standby and warm standby applications, and all connections must be
COM
Continuation of message. See beginning of message (BOM) (page 19).
Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique (CCITT)
A European standards body now known as
command area
An adjustable segment of a window where you enter and review commands. The command area contains two fields: a command (input) field and a history field.
command file
A set of instructions stored as a macro. When the command file is executed, all instructions or commands in that file are performed automatically.
command line interface
An area on a terminal screen that allows you to enter instructions from the keyboard and then execute those instructions.
committed burst size (Bc)
The maximum amount of data (in bits) that a network agrees to transfer under normal conditions over a measurement interval.
committed information rate (CIR)
The rate (in bit/s) at which the network agrees to transfer information over a connection. It is related to committed burst size (Bc) and measurement interval (T) as CIR = Bc/T.
common header
Asmall Nortel Multiservice Switch
common channel signaling (CCS)
A signaling system in which signaling control data for all channels on a facility is carried on a single separate channel in the form of a data protocol. For example, the control signals for 30 voice channels are carried on an ISDN PBX trunk, and the data channel
Nortel Multiservice Switch 7400/15000/20000
Terminology
PCR7.2 and up March 2006
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