Learning Path: Telephony and Wide Area Networks
<
TELEPHONY AND WIDE AREA NETWORKS...circuit -
PSTN -
Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) -
telephone jacks -
dial-up -
acoustic coupler -
modem - 56flex - 56 Kbps (x2) -
handshaking - V.xx standards -
local loop -
central office - LIDB -
dedicated line -
BOC - RBOC -
Intelligent Network (IN) -
Advanced
Intelligent Network (AIN) -
Signaling System 7 (SS7) -
EWSD -
erlang (measure of line usage) -
frame -
frame relay - frame relay access device (FRAD) -
ATM -
2600 -
ISDN -
B-channel -
D-channel -
terminal adapter - BISDN -
HDLC -
IDSL - PABX -
Direct Inward Dialing (DID) - Automatic Number Identification (ANI) -
Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS) -
permanent virtual circuit (PVC) -
switched virtual circuit -
DSLAM - Voice over IP -
VoxML -
CAPI -
TAPI -
splitter -
splitterless (DSL) -
ATU-R -
digital loop carrier
View other topics for self-study by visiting our Guide
to the Learning Paths.
This was last updated in February 2001
Dig Deeper
-
Expert Michael Gregg answers a reader question about Snort and the interfaces it uses.
-
Security expert Michael Gregg notes the risks to enteprise security that mobile devices may cause.
-
Security expert Michael Gregg fields a question about unknown network cards gaining access to a user's network.
-
People who read this also read...