| API |
Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of functions,
procedures, methods or classes that an operating system, library or
service provides to support requests made by computer programs. |
| Asterisk |
Open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. |
| Asterisk Appliance |
A standalone embedded Asterisk based PBX |
| Asterisk Boards |
Asterisk compatible telephony boards |
| Asterisk BRI |
Asterisk system compatible with BRI
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| Asterisk Cards |
Telephony cards used to integrate existing analogue telephone handsets and analogue lines into the Asterisk PBX. |
| Asterisk Distribution |
Method to access Asterisk products. |
| Asterisk FXO |
Asterisk compatible Foreign Exchange Office. |
| Asterisk FXS |
Asterisk compatible Foreign Exchange Services. |
| Asterisk Hardware |
Computer components designed for use with Asterisk |
| Asterisk IP-PBX |
An open source communications platform based on IP (Internet Protocol)
PBX (Private branch exchange) as a business telephone system. |
| Asterisk ISDN |
Asterisk compatible Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). This
telephone system network integrates speech and data on the same lines
while adding features that were not available in the classic telephone
system. |
| Asterisk PBX |
An open source communications platform based on PBX (Private branch exchange) as a business telephone system.
Asterisk Server Asterisk's platform upon which equipment providers can
build a network infrastructure. The server supports a mix of
traditional and VoIP telephony services, enabling new telephone systems
to be build , or slowly convert existing systems to new technologies. |
| Asterisk Solutions |
Products and services designed for use with Asterisk. |
| Asterisk System |
See Asterisk |
| Asterisk Telephony |
See Asterisk |
| Asterisk VoIP |
Open source telephony platform and tool kit with Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities. |
| Astribank |
A USB channel bank especially designed for Asterisk Open Source PBX systems. |
| Audiocodes |
Manufacturer of VoIP (Voice Over IP) technologies and products. |
| BRI |
Basic Rate Interface (BRI) is an Integrated Services Digital Network
(ISDN) channel consisting of two 64 kbit/s "bearer" channels (B
channels) and one 16 kbit/s "delta" channel (D channel). The B
channels are for voice or user data. The D channels are for control and
signaling and/or networking. The two B channels can be bonded together. |
| BRI Channel Bank |
A channel bank with BRI ports. |
| BRI ISDN |
ISDN with BRI ports. |
| Call Manager |
A system which organizes the shared lines for incoming and outgoing telephone calls. |
| Channel Bank |
A device that performs multiplexing or demultiplexing of a group
of communications channels into one channel of higher bandwidth or
higher digital bit rate. |
| CLEC |
Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. A telecommunications
carrier/service provider that competes with other, already established
carriers. |
| DAHDI |
Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface. See Zaptel |
| Demultiplexing |
The reverse of multiplexing. |
| Digium |
The creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Asterisk is the basis for all Xorcom products.
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| Druid Asterisk |
An open source unified communications platform. |
| Elastics |
Common misspelling for Elastix. |
| Elastix |
An appliance software that integrates tools available for Asterisk based PBXs into a single interface. |
| Elastix Appliance |
See Elastix above. |
| Embedded Asterisk |
Platforms created with Asterisk built in. |
| EPABX |
Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange. See PBX |
| FXO |
Foreign Exchange Office (FXO). An FXO is any device that sends and
receives voice frequency signals, accepts ringing signals, can
"on-hook" and "off-hook". FXO interfaces are also available for
computers and networking equipment. |
| FXO Card |
Card with an FXO interface. |
| FXS |
Foreign Exchange Station (FXS). This is a telephone interface which
generates ringing voltage, provides battery power, sends a dialtone,
understands when the phone goes on-hook or off-hook, and sends and
receives voice signals. An example of this would be the phone jack,
unless plugged in, calls can't be made. |
| FXS Card |
Card with an FXS interface. |
| iPBX , IPBX , IP-PBX |
IP (Internet Protocol) PBX (Private branch
exchange) business telephone system designed to deliver voice over a
data network and interoperate with the normal Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN). |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). This is a telephone
system network which integrates speech and data on the same lines.
Additional features advance this system as compared to the traditional
telephone system. |
| Multiplexing |
The process where several analog message signals or digital data streams merge into one signal over a shared medium. |
| PABX |
Private Automatic Branch Exchange. See PBX |
| PBX |
Private branch exchange (PBX) is a telephone exchange system used by
business offices. Users of the PBX share a certain number of external
lines for making telephone calls as opposed to connecting an external
telephone line to every telephone in the organization. |
| PCI Card |
The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is used to attach peripheral devices to a computer motherboard. |
| PRI |
Primary Rate Interface (PRI) is an access interface to the ISDN. |
| R2 |
R2 is an access interface to the ISDN, primarily popular in Latin America.
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| Sangoma |
Provider of PC-based hardware and software for proprietary and open source based data and telephony. |
| SMB |
Small and Medium-sized Business(es). Also known as SME - Small and Medium-sized Enterprise(s). |
| SMP |
Symmetric multiprocessing. In this computer-architecture two or more identical processors connect to one shared main memory. |
| Soft Phone |
A software program used for making telephone calls over the Internet
via computer. The program is designed to function like a traditional
phone. |
| SOHO |
Small Office / Home Office |
| trixbox |
A telephony application platform with Asterisk's open source software
that combines the best of the open source telephony tools into one
package. |
| trixbox FXO |
See trixbox and FXO |
| VoIP |
Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip) is used to transmit audio/voice through the Internet or other packet-switched networks. |
| Zaptel |
An open computer telephony hardware driver API. The name has recently been changed to DAHDI.
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| 3COM |
"Computers, Communication and Compatibility" Manufacturer of computer network infrastructure products |
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