Lucent Technologies DEFINITY® Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2 Reports Guide

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
Reports Guide  555-233-505  Issue 1
April 2000
Glossary and Abbreviations 
GL-5  
APLT
Advanc ed Private-Line Termination
appearance
A software p roc ess that is assoc iated  with an extension and  whose p urpose is to sup ervise a c all. 
An extension can have multiple ap p earanc es. Also c alled  call ap pearanc e, line ap pearance, and  
oc c urrenc e. See also c all ap p earanc e
.
application
An ad junc t that req uests and rec eives ASAI servic...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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Glossary and Abbreviations 
GL-6  
attendant
A person at a c onsole who p rovides p ersonalized  servic e for incoming c allers and  voic e-servic es 
users by p erforming  switc hing  and  sig naling  operations. See also attend ant console
.
AT M
See  asynchronous Transfer Mod e (ATM)
.
attendant console
The workstation used  b y an attend ant. The attend ant console allows the attend ant to orig inate a...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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Glossary and Abbreviations 
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automatic restoration
A service that restores d isrupted  c onnections b etween ac cess end points (nonsig naling  trunks) 
and  data endp oints (d evices that c onnec t the switc h to data terminal and /or c ommunic ations 
eq uip ment). Restoration is d one within seconds of a service disrup tion so that c ritical d ata 
ap p lic ations c an remain op erational....

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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April 2000
Glossary and Abbreviations 
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baud
A unit of transmission rate eq ual to the numb er of sig nal events p er sec ond . See also bit rate
 and 
bits per second (bps)
.
BCC
See  Bearer c ap ability c lass (BCC)
.
BCMS
Basic  Call Manag ement System
BCT
See  business c ommunic ations terminal (BCT)
.
Bearer capability class (BCC)
Cod e that id entifies the typ e of a c all (for examp le, voic e and d...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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April 2000
Glossary and Abbreviations 
GL-9  
bridged appearance
A call app earance on a voic e terminal that matc hes a c all ap pearanc e on another voice terminal 
for the d uration of a c all.
BTU
British Thermal Unit
buffer
1. In hard ware, a c irc uit or c omponent that isolates one electrical c irc uit from another. Typic ally, a 
b uffer hold s d ata from one c irc uit or process until another circ uit or p...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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April 2000
Glossary and Abbreviations 
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call appearance
1. For the attendant c onsole, six buttons, lab eled  a–f, used  to orig inate, rec eive, and  hold  c alls. 
Two lig hts next to the b utton show the status of the call app earance.
2. For the voice terminal, a button lab eled  with an extension and  used  to p lac e outgoing  calls, 
rec eive inc oming  calls, or hold c alls. Two lig hts next to the b...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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Glossary and Abbreviations 
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CCS or hundred call seconds
A unit of c all traffic . Call traffic  for a fac ility is scanned  every 100 second s. If the fac ility is b usy, it is 
assumed  to have b een busy for the entire sc an interval. There are 3600 sec ond s p er hour. The 
Roman numeral for 100 is the c ap ital letter C. The ab b reviation for c all seconds is CS. Therefore, 
100 call sec ond s...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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April 2000
Glossary and Abbreviations 
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CDRP
Call Detail Rec ord  Poller
CDRR
Call Detail Rec ord ing  and  Rep orting
CDRU
See  Call Detail Rec ord ing  utility (CDRU)
.
CEM
Channel-expansion multip lexing
center-stage switch (CSS)
The central interface b etween the p roc essor p ort network and  exp ansion p ort networks in a 
CSS-c onnected system.
central office (CO)
The location housing  telephone...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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Class of Restriction (COR)
A feature that allows up  to 64 c lasses of c all-orig ination and c all-termination restric tions for voic e 
terminals, voic e-terminal g roups, d ata mod ules, and  trunk g roup s. See also Class of Service 
(COS).
Class of Service (COS)
A feature that uses a numb er to sp ec ify if voice-terminal users c an activate the Automatic 
Callbac...

DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2
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Glossary and Abbreviations 
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controlled station
A station that is monitored and c ontrolled  via a domain-c ontrol assoc iation.
COR
See  Class of Restric tion (COR)
.
COS
See  Class of Servic e (COS)
.
coverage answer group
A g roup  of up  to eig ht voic e terminals that ring  simultaneously when a c all is red irected  to it b y Call 
Coverag e. Any one of the g roup  c an answer the c all....