CH 1 Tradition vs Unified Voice QUESTIONS Flashcards
System designed for large businesses with thousands or tens of thousands of users. Usually permits direct dialing to a particular office phone.
PBX
An adapter card installed in a PBX to connect to another PBX or the PSTN.
Trunk card
An adapter card installed in a PBX to connect to telephone handsets.
Line card
Central Office
CO
Public Switched Telephone Network
PSTN
The location where telephone equipment, such as telephone switches, are located.
CO
Private Branch Exchange
PBX
The telephony systems that together span the USA and connect residential users, business users, and business telephony systems.
PSTN
System designed for a business of about 50 users or fewer. Often does not allow for direct dialing to a particular office.
Key System
The most common device on the PSTN. Converts audio into electrical signals.
Analog telephone
Signaling the beginning of a call by connecting the tip (positive) and ring (negative) wires to form an electrical circuit.
Loop Start Signaling
A connection between the customer premises (home or business) and the telecommunications service provider.
Local Loop
when a call on a ling is being placed simultaneously with a call being received and thus neither can be completed.
Glare
Signaling the beginning of a call by the PBX sending a ground signal over the wires.
Ground Start Signaling
A connection between two switches or a switch and a business system that carries multiple conversations of the same set of wires.
Trunk
Has the highest MOS of common codecs.
G.711
Has the highest MOS of commonly used compression codecs.
G.729
Uses 8 kbps
G.729
Uncompressed audio
G.711