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Appendix - Glossary
The interconnection between the internal house telephone wiring
and a conventional telephone service provider’s equipment. These
wiring connections are normally housed in a small plastic box
located on an outer wall of the house. It is the legal demarcation
between the subscriber’s property and the service provider’s
property.
PacketCable A project with the objective of developing a set of necessary
telephony specications and operations support interface
specications for Advanced Cable Gateways and associated
equipment used over the DOCSIS based cable network.
PSTN - (Public Switched Telephone Network)
The worldwide voice telephone network which provides dial tone,
ringing, full-duplex voice band audio and optional services using
standard telephones.
Provisioning The process of enabling the Media Terminal Adapter (MTA) to
register and provide services over the network.
TCP/IP - (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
A networking protocol that provides communication across
interconnected networks, between computers with diverse
hardware architectures and various operating systems.
TFTP - (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
The system by which the Media Terminal Adapter’s conguration
data le is downloaded.
TSP - (Telephony Service Provider)
An organization that provides telephone services such as dial tone,
local service, long distance, billing and records, and maintenance.
Universal Serial Bus - (USB)
USB is a “plug-and-play” interface between a computer and add-
on devices, such as an Advanced Cable Gateway.
Xpress Technology
One of the popular performance-enhancing WiFi technologies,
designed to improve wireless network efciency and boost
throughput. It is more efcient in mixed environments, and it can
work with 802.11a/b/g networks.