Cisco Systems IP phone 7960 IP Phone User Manual


 
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Cisco SIP IP Phone 7960 Administrator Guide
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I
IVR
Integrated voice response. When someone dials in, IVR responds with a prompt to get a personal
identification number (PIN), and so on.
L
LEC
Local exchange carrier.
Location Server
A SIP redirect or proxy server uses a a location service to get information about a caller’s location(s).
Location services are offered by location servers.
M
MF
Multi-frequency tones are made of six frequencies that provide 15 two frequency combinations for
indication digits 0-9 and KP/ST signals.
multicast
A process of transmitting PDUs from one source to many destinations. The actual mechanism (that is,
IP multicast, multi-unicast, and so forth) for this process might be different for LAN technologies.
multipoint-unicast
A process of transferring PDUs (Protocol Data Units) where an endpoint sends more than one copy of a
media stream to different endpoints. This can be necessary in networks which do not support multicast.
N
node
A H.323 entity that uses RAS to communicate with the gatekeeper, for example, an endpoint such as a
terminal, proxy, or gateway.