User guide

Glossary

Issue 1 September 1995 GL-9

Sanity and Control Interface (SAKI)

An integrated circuit that receives and transmits TDM bus control messages and monitors the

sanity of the angel processor.

Shutdown States

States of system operation where either a technician can shut down the system for maintenance,

or where a critical error condition brings down the system. In either case, filesystems are closed

and the system can be powered down and removed from the carrier.

Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)

An interface standard defining the physical, logical, and electrical connections to computer sys-

tem peripherals such as tape and disk drives.

Standalone Tape Utility

A software utility with options that include disk drive initialization, copying files from a generic tape

onto the customer's disk, and map partition modification.

Subscriber Specific Announcement Set

When the Multilingual feature is enabled, each subscriber form has three fields specifying the

announcement set with which the subscriber will interact with the system once they log in, and the

two announcement sets with which callers to the subscriber's mailbox can interact with the sys-

tem.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

A set of protocol standards which allows a process on one machine to send data to a process on

another machine. Communication may be full or half duplex. TCP/IP includes support for multiple

operating systems and machine architectures.

Technical Service Organization

Includes technical support organizations such as the Technical Service Center (TSC), National

Service Assistance Center (NSAC), International Technical Assistance Center (ITAC), Center of

Excellence (COE), Design Center (DC), Sales Technical Response Center (STRC), and National

Technical Marketing (NTM).

Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD)

A feature providing Call Answering and Personal Greeting capabilities to the hearing-impaired.

The announcement set responds to Baudot tones which are input from a special keypad.

Time Division Multiplex (TDM) Bus

The interface between the DEFINITY AUDIX System and the switch that carries digitally-encoded

voice waveforms and circuit-switched data.