Terms and Definitions
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Term or Definiton
Meaning
Port
In SmartWare a port represents a physical connector on the
SmartNode.
Port Address
A port address can be assigned to a CS interface to realize a
virtual voice tunnel between two nodes.
Post Filter
The voice decoder output is normally filtered using a
perceptual post-filter to improve voice quality. See also
High-Pass Filter.
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
Profile
A profile provides configuration shortcutting. A profile
contains specific settings which can be used on multiple
contexts, interfaces or gateways.
PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network. Contains ISDN and
POTS
Q.931 Tunneling
Q.931 tunneling is able to support ISDN services and Q.SIG
over an IP network.
Q.SIG
ISDN Services comprise additional services for the Private
ISDN network such as CNIP (Calling Name Identification
Presentation), CNIR (Calling Name Identification
Restriction) etc. See also ISDN Services.
Release
SmartWare is organized in releases that define the main
voice and data features of a SmartNode. Several builds can
be available from ca ertain release. See also build.
Routing Engine
In SmartWare the routing engine handles the basic IP
routing.
Running Configuration
The currently running configuration (running-config) for
SmartWare, which is executed from the volatile memory
(
system:
) on the SmartNode.
Session Router
Calls through SmartNode can be routed based on a set of
routing criteria. The entity that manages call routing is called
Session Router.
Silence Compression
Silence supression (or compression) detects the silent periods
in a phone conversation and stops the sending of media
packets during this periods.
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