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Glossary
TANDBERG VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SERVER ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Term | Definition |
A record | A type of DNS record that maps a domain name to an IPv4 address. |
AAAA record | A type of DNS record that maps a domain name to an IPv6 address. |
Administrator Policy | In relation to the VCS, the set of rules configured |
| a given criteria. |
Alias | The name an endpoint uses when registering with the VCS. Other endpoints can then use this name to call it. An endpoint may register with more than one alias. |
Alternate | One or more VCSs configured to support the same zone in order to provide redundancy. |
AOR | A SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where the user might be available. Typically, the location |
Address of Record | service is populated through registrations. An AOR is frequently thought of as the “public address” of the user. |
ARQ | An endpoint RAS request to make or answer a call. |
Admission Request |
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Assent | TANDBERG’s proprietary protocol for firewall traversal. |
Border Controller | A TANDBERG device used to control multimedia networks and firewall traversal. |
Call Policy | The set of rules (administrator policy, user policy and transforms) that are applied to a single call to determine whether and how it is placed. |
CLI | A |
Command Line Interface |
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Cluster | A collection of between two and six VCSs that have been configured to work together as a single Local Zone, in order to provide scalability and redundancy. |
CPL | An |
Call Processing Language |
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Default Subzone | A subzone used to represent locally registered endpoints and systems that do not fall within any other existing configured subzones within the Local Zone. |
Default Zone | A configurable zone on the VCS used to represent incoming connections from endpoints that are not recognized as belonging to any of the existing configured |
| Neighbor, Traversal Client or Traversal Server Zones. |
DNS | A distributed database linking domain names to IP addresses. |
Domain Name System |
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DNS zone | On the VCS, a zone used to configure access to endpoints located via a DNS lookup. |
E.164 | An ITU standard for structured telephone numbers. Each telephone number consists of a country code, area code and subscriber number. For example, TANDBERG’s |
| European Headquarters’ phone number is +47 67 125125, corresponding to a country code of 47 for Norway, area code of 67 for Lysaker and finally 125125 to |
| determine which phone line in Lysaker. |
ENUM | A means of mapping E.164 numbers to URIs using DNS. |
tElephone NUmber Mapping |
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ENUM zone | On the VCS, a zone used to configure access to endpoints located via ENUM. |
External Manager | The remote system that is used to manage endpoints and network infrastructure. The TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS) is an example of an external manager. |
Introduction | Getting Started |
| Overview and |
| System |
| VCS |
| Zones and |
| Call |
| Bandwidth |
| Firewall |
| Applications |
| Maintenance |
| Appendices |
| Status |
| Configuration |
| Configuration |
| Neighbors |
| Processing |
| Control |
| Traversal |
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