Telecommunications Internetworking: Delivering Services Across the Networks
This book delivers the information you need to understand and be a player in today's and tomorrow's internetworked telecom.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Telecommunications Internetworking: Delivering Services Across the Networks
Appendix A: Acronyms, Definitions, and Terminology
- Access Link (A-link)
- Used for switch-STP signaling connections and STP-HLR
- Access Network
- Portion of a public switched network that connects access nodes to individual subscribers
- Access Service Area
- A geographic area established for the provision and administration of communications services. An access service area encompasses one or more exchanges, where an exchange is a unit of the communications network that consists of the distribution facilities within the area served by one or more end offices, together with the associated facilities used in furnishing communications service within the area.
- Access Tandem
- A switching system that concentrates and distributes traffic for inter-LATA traffic originating or terminating within an Local Access and Transport Area (LATA). An access tandem also can provide equal access for non-conforming end offices.
- Access Tandem (AT)
- An EC switching system that provides a traffic concentration and distribution function for interexchange traffic originating or terminating within an access service area
- Address Signals
- These signals convey call destination information or the digits that are dialed by the calling party. There are several types of address signaling: dial pulse, Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF), and Multi-Frequency (MF).
- Alerting Signals
- These signals alert the user to an incoming call. In other words, alerting signals are the ringing that the user hears (also known as power ringing in the wireline world).
- Amateur Satellite Service
- This satellite service is for radio amateur use to carry out technical investigations and to learn about intercommunications.
- American National Standards Institute
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