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Illustrations contained in this document are for representation only.
NID
- Network Interface Device, the interconnection between the internal house telephone wiring and a
conventional telephone service provider’s equipment. These wiring connections are normally housed in a
small plastic box located on an outer wall of the house. It is the legal demarcation between the
subscriber’s property and the service provider’s property.
PacketCable
– A project with the objective of developing a set of necessary telephony specifications and
operations support interface specifications for
Residential Voice Gateways and associated equipment
used over the DOCSIS-based cable network.
PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
– The worldwide voice telephone network which
provides dial tone, ringing, full-duplex voice band audio and optional services using standard telephones.
Provisioning
- The process of enabling the Media Terminal Adapter (MTA) to register and provide
services over the network.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
– A networking protocol that provides
communication across interconnected networks, between computers with diverse hardware architectures
and various operating systems.
TFTP
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol, the system by which the Media Terminal Adapter’s configuration
data file is downloaded.
TSP
- Telephony Service Provider, an organization that provides telephone services such as dial tone,
local service, long distance, billing and records, and maintenance.
Xpress Technology
- One of the popular performance-enhancing WiFi technologies, designed to
improve wireless network efficiency and boost throughput. It is more efficient in mixed environments,
and it can work with 802.11a/b/g networks.
Please do not send any products to the Indianapolis address listed in this manual or on the carton. This
will only add delays in service for your product.
Thomson Inc.
101 W 103
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Street
Indianapolis, IN 46290
