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Appendix C Glossary and Acronyms
G.711
A recommendation by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) for an algorithm designed to transmit and receive mulaw PCM
voice and A-law at a digital bit rate of 64 Kbps. This algorithm is used for
digital telephone sets on digital PBX.
G.723.1
A recommendation by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) for an algorithm designed to transmit and receive audio over
telephone lines at 6.3 Kbps or 5.3 Kbps.
G.729a
A recommendation by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) for an algorithm designed to transmit and receive audio over
telephone lines at 8 Kbps.
H.323
A recommendation by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) for multimedia communications over packet-based networks.
IAX
Inter-Asterisk eXchange
The native VoIP protocol used by Asterisk. It is an IETF standard used to
enable VoIP connections between Asterisk servers, and between servers
and clients that also use the IAX protocol.
