User Guide ISDN Terminal Adapter MTA128ST-USB

MultiModemISDN User Guide

Universal Serial Bus: A collection of Universal Serial Bus devices and the software and hardware that allow them to connect the

capabilities provided by functions to the host.

Universal Serial Bus Device: Includes hubs and functions. See device.

Universal Serial Bus Driver: The host resident software entity responsible for providing common services to clients that are manipulating

one or more functions on one or more Host Controllers.

Universal Serial Bus Interface: The hardware interface between the Universal Serial Bus cable and a Universal Serial Bus device. This

includes the protocol engine required for all Universal Serial Bus devices to be able to receive and send packets.

Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP): Telephone-type wiring. Tansmission media for 10Base-T.

Upstream: The direction of data flow towards the host. An upstream port is the port on a device electrically closest to the host that

generates upstream data traffic from the hub. Upstream ports receive downstream data traffic.

USB: See Universal Serial Bus.

USBD: See Universal Serial Bus Driver.

USB Performance categories: Low Speed (Interactive Devices at 10-100 Kb/s); Medium Speed (Phone, Audio, Compressed Video at

500Kb/s - 10Mbp/s); High Speed (Video, Disk at 25-500 Mb/s)

UTP (unshielded twisted pair) —Telephone-type wiring.

V.110—One of the terminal rate adaptation protocols for the ISDN B-channel. V.110 is more hardware-intensive than the V.120 B-channel

standard.

V.120—One of the terminal rate adaptation protocols for the ISDN B-channel. V.120 is more software-intensive than the V.110 B-channel

standard.

Videotex—A two-way information-retrieval service that can be accessed by terminals and by a TV set (with installed decoder). Allows

interactive retrieval of information pages from a central resource. See also

ISDN

virtual circuit—A logical connection. Used in packet switching wherin a logical connection is established between two devices at the start

of transmission. All information packets follow the same route and arrive in sequence (but do not necessarily carry a complete address).

X.25—ITU-T’s definition of a three-level packet-switching protocol to be used between packet-mode DTEs and network DCEs. X.25

corresponds with layer 3 of the 7-layer OSI model.

X.75—An ITU-T standard for linking X.25 packet-switched networks. X.75 defines the connection between public networks, i.e., for a

gateway between X.25 networks.