MobiLink IP
GLOSSARY – Acronyms and explanations
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10. GLOSSARY – Acronyms and explanations
3G
– “Third generation” mobile networks, specially designed for high speed data services.
The classic definition of wireless networks that following the 2G systems (GSM) and they
offer high speed data services in addition to the basic voice capability. These 3G mobile
communications systems provide an enhanced range of multimedia services (high speed
Internet access, video streaming, etc.). The high data transfer speed specific to the third
generation communications network leads to an increased efficiency of information
transmission, while the real time access to data and information means important savings of
time and money. UMTS is the best known of the 3G networks, while HSPA is a 3,5 or 3G+
development.
ANI
– Acronym for
Automatic Number Identification
- a feature of telephony intelligent
network services which allows subscribers to display or capture the telephone numbers of
calling parties. The service is often provided by sending the digital tone multi frequency
(DTMF) tones along with the call. Home users of ANI can screen callers. ANI is commonly
used by emergency centre dispatchers to save the caller having to report the information
and, when necessary, to help locate callers. A telephone company's 9-1-1 service to a public
safety point usually includes the ANI feature. For instance, in a call centre, ANI displays the
number of the calling party to the call centre agent in real time. Among other things, the call
center can use the information to forward calls to different people for different geographic
areas.
DHCP
(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - This protocol allows a computer (or many
computers on your network) to be automatically assigned a single IP address from a DHCP
server. DHCP is available on MobiLinkIP number that the caller dialed. DNIS works by
passing the touch tone digits (dual tone multi frequency or MF digits) to the destination
where a special facility can read and display them or make them available for call center
programming. For example, a company may have a different toll free number for each
product line it sells. If a call center is handling calls for multiple product lines, the switch that
receives the call can examine the DNIS, and then play the appropriate recorded greeting.
Another example of multiple toll free numbers might be used for multi-lingual identification. A
dedicated toll free number might be set up for Spanish or Chinese speaking customers.
DNS
– Acronym for Domain Name System (or Service), an Internet service that translates
domain names into IP addresses. This allows the Internet hosts to use both addresses type
domain name (such as topex.ro or linux.org), and addresses type IP numbers (for instance
192.17.3.4). The domain name addresses are intended for human users and are
automatically converted into IP (numeric) addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic,
they are much easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses.
Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into
the corresponding IP address.
DNS Server
– computer able to answer to the interrogations in a DNS system. The DNS
server maintains a database that includes the host computers with their domain names and
the corresponding IP addresses. For instance, if you ask the DNS server for the domain
name apex.com, it will return the IP address of the hypothetical company called Apex. DNS
servers are linked in their network, so if one DNS server doesn't know how to translate a
particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is found.
When a user enters a domain name into the Internet browser, the user is sent by the DNS
Server to the proper IP address. The DNS server address used by the computers on your
home network is the location of the DNS.
DNS Server Address
(Domain Name System) - DNS allows Internet host computers to have
a domain name and one or more IP addresses. A DNS server keeps a database of host
computers and their respective domain names and IP addresses, so that server your ISP has
assigned.
