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LANCOM Advanced VoIP Client
 Technical Terms
MAC Address Medium Access Control Address
Each network card identifies itself with the MAC address. This
address is an 8-byte address, which is uniquely defined worldwide.
MAPI Mail Application Programming Interface
This Microsoft interface can be used by applications to send E-mails.
Multiple connection Basic Rate Interface for operating up to eight ISDN terminals (ISDN
telephones etc.) on a S
0
bus. It is possible to operate ISDN telepho-
nes, ISDN PC cards or ISDN telecommunications systems on a
multiple connection. The devices are addressed via MSNs.
MSN Multiple Subscriber Number
A non-direct dialing-in line can have several numbers (MSNs). The
assignment of these MSNs to the terminals takes place in the termi-
nals themselves.
Name Resolution Automatic association of a name to a phone number.
Example: You receive a call from the public telephone network and
the caller’s phone number is transmitted. LANCOM Advanced VoIP
Client then searches, e.g. in Microsoft Outlook Contacts and in the
Personal Phonebook, for a contact matching this phone number. If a
contact is found, LANCOM Advanced VoIP Client will show the name
of the caller in addition to the phone number in the display.
NAT Network Address Translation is a method for replacing an IP address
by another within a data package. This method is frequently used to
map private IP addresses to public IP addresses.
NT mode Network Terminator
For ISDN (and other protocols) a different behavior is often required,
depending on functionality. For ISDN, the exchange operates in NT
mode and the telephones (terminals) operate in TE mode. An
example of different behavior is the transfer of charging information,
which of course is only possible from NT to TE, and not the other way
round.
NetBIOS Name A symbolic name (e.g. WS-SJONES), which is used for addressing a
PC, if this PC should be contacted using the Microsoft NetBIOS
protocol.
Overlap Sending The numbers entered are dialed immediately. The destination phone
number can no longer be edited. The opposite of this is ‘Block
dialing’.
P2P see Peer-to-Peer
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
Private branch exchange
PBX Private Branch Exchange
Private branch exchange, i.e. a system for regulating telephone
systems in what is usually a smaller telephone network with an
interface to the public telephone network.
Term Explanation