CyberData Corporation
930320A
Operations Guide
Abbreviations and Terms
Abbreviation or Term
Definition
A-law
A standard companding algorithm, used in European digital
communications systems to optimize, i.e., modify, the dynamic range of an
analog signal for digitizing.
AVP
Audio Video Profile
Cat 5
TIA/EIA-568-B Category 5
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
LAN
Local Area Network
LED
Light Emitting Diode
Mbps
Megabytes per Second.
NTP
Network Time Protocol
PBX
Private Branch Exchange
PoE
Power over Ethernet (as per IEEE 802.3af standard)
RTP
Real-time Transport Protocol
RTFM
Reset Test Function Management
Talkback
Two-way communication enabled
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
u-law
A companding algorithm, primarily used in the digital telecommunication
UC
Unified Communications
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol