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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

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This was last updated in February 2001

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