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Glossary

TANDBERG VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SERVER ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

Term

Definition

UA

A SIP device used to make and receive calls.

User Agent

 

UDP

A communication protocol defined by RFC 791 [18]. It is less reliable than TCP.

User Datagram Protocol

 

URI

A formatted string used to identify a resource, typically on the internet.

Uniform Resource Identifier

 

User Policy

The set of rules that determine the action(s) to be applied to calls for a particular user or group.

VCS

A generic term for the TANDBERG product which acts as a gatekeeper and SIP Proxy/Server.

Video Communications Server

 

VCS Control

A VCS whose main function is to act as a gatekeeper, SIP proxy and firewall traversal client. This system will generally be located within the firewall.

VCS Expressway

A VCS with the same functionality as a VCS Control that can also act as a firewall traversal server. This will generally be located outside the firewall.

Zone

Zones are used on the VCS to define and configure connections to locally registered and external systems and endpoints. The Local Zone refers to all the locally

 

registered endpoints and systems, and consists of configurable subzones. External zones are used to configure connections to external systems with which the VCS

 

has a Neighbor, Traversal Client or Traversal Server relationship, and to configure the way in which the VCS performs ENUM and DNS searches.

Introduction

Getting Started

 

Overview and

 

System

 

VCS

 

Zones and

 

Call

 

Bandwidth

 

Firewall

 

Applications

 

Maintenance

 

Appendices

 

Status

 

Configuration

 

Configuration

 

Neighbors

 

Processing

 

Control

 

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