Glossary
Zaptel
The Zaptel project has been renamed 'DAHDI' as of May 2008. DAHDI is a series of drivers for telephony hardware devices.
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VoIP
Voice Over Internet Protocol
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Transcode
The process of converting a channel with one type of encoding to a different type of encoding in real time.
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TDM
Time Division Multiplexing
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SIP
Session Initiation Protocol
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REN
Ringer Equivalency Number
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PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
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PRI
Primary Rate Interface
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PBX
Private Branch Exchange
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Open source
An approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code.
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MGCP
Media Gateway Control Protocol
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IVR
Interactive Voice Response
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IAX
Inter-Asterisk eXchange
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H.323
A VOIP protocol that was deployed early and is widely adopted.
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GSM
A compressed speech codec that uses a rate of 13 kbps.
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G.729
The G.729 codec is an industry standard which allows for stuffing more calls in limited bandwidth to utilize IP voice in more cost effective ways.
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G.711
An uncompressed codec that samples a 64kbps channel at 8 bits per sample using pulse code modulation.
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FXS
Foreign Exchange Station
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FXO
Foreign Exchange Office
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Encode
The process of converting an analog signal into a digital signal that can be manipulated easily by a computer.
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E&M
Ear & Mouth
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Dialplan
A dial plan establishes the expected number and pattern of digits for a telephone number.
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DAHDI
Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface
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Context
The dialplan is composed of one or more extension contexts.
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CODEC
Coder/Decoder
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ACD
Automatic Call Distributor
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