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ACD

Automatic call distribution – director

The VOSS Services team can rapidly adapt VOSS data and device models, configuration templates, orchestration workflows and IT integrations, all within a highly agile, core product framework, to better match your business requirements.

ADSL

Asymmetric digital subscriber line

AMA

Automatic message accounting

ANI

Automatic number identification

API

Application programming interface

Auto Attendant

Automated attendant or auto attendant system

AXL

AVVID XML layer

B number

Called number

BCOM

Business communications operations management

BRI

Basic rate interface

Business Process Automation

The automation of IT workflows and processes to fit any business environment

The term “Business Transformation” encapsulates the way that organizations are introducing automation and digital technology into all areas of their business to revolutionize the way they operate and deliver value to customers.

BYOD

Bring your own device

CC

Country code

CCIS

Common channel interoffice signalling

CDRs

Call Data Records

CEPB

Communications enabled business processes

CER

Cisco Emergency Responder

CF

Call forward

CID

Caller ID

Cisco Jabber

Cisco IM & Presence multi-device client

Cisco Presence

Cisco Unified Presence is a standards based platform that collects information from multiple sources

Cisco SRST

Cisco secure survivable remote site telephony

Cisco UCS

Cisco Unified Computing System

Cisco Webex

Solution for video conferencing, online meetings, screen share, webinars, web conferencing, and cloud calling

CLI

Command-line interface or calling line identification

CLID

Caller ID – Caller line ID

CLIP

Calling line identification presentation

CLIR

Calling line identification restriction

Cluster ID

(CID) ID assigned to each CUCM PBX cluster

Cognitive collaboration is the practice of applying specific behavioral guidelines to an environment, giving staff the support and guidance they need to create a better atmosphere that improves collaboration. It completely transforms the way we think about company culture and helps employers find ways to improve the employee experience and remove any factors that are detrimental to productivity.

COLP

Connected line presentation

Known as call centers and contact centers – includes the contact center hardware solutions and contact center software solutions.

CoS

Class of service

CPID

Call processing identifier (unique system-wide) or call processing ID

CSP

Communications Service Provider

CSS

Calling search space

CT

Call type

CTI

Computer telephony integration, also called computer-telephone integration or CTI, is technology that allows interactions on a telephone and a computer to be integrated or co-ordinated. As contact channels have expanded from voice to include email, web, and fax, the definition of CTI has expanded to include the integration of all customer contact channels (voice, email, web, fax, etc.) with computer systems.

CUCM

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

CUCx

Cisco Unity Connection

CUPS

Cisco Unified Presence Server

DDCO

Direct dial central office (opposite of DID)

DDD

Direct distance dialling

DDI

Direct dial inward (same as DID)

DECT

Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications

Device Model Generator

Automatically generates the driver used to communicate with external applications and associated devices (like phones, and other communications devices).

DHCP

Dynamic host configuration protocol

Dial plan

A dial plan establishes the expected number and pattern of digits for a telephone number, including country codes, access codes, area codes, extension numbers and all combinations of digits dialed. Dial plans must comply with the telephone networks to which they connect.

DID

Direct dial inward (same as DDI)

The term “Digital Business Transformation” encapsulates the way that organizations are introducing automation and digital technology into all areas of their business to revolutionize the way they operate and deliver value to customers.

The virtual equal of a physical office space, and includes employee devices, apps, tools, software, and platforms.

A central point of control over the whole environment, to make it faster, easier, and more repeatable to execute any given task, respond to any given problem, or scale to support new services or higher headcount.

A digital workplace solution – also known as digital workplace tools – should include the full suite of unified communications and collaboration tools (audio phones, audio messaging, audio conferencing, instant messaging, presence awareness, soft phones, web conferencing, video conferencing, workplace collaboration i.e. Teams rooms, unified messaging, and other services spanning both real-time and non-real-time communication engagements), plus productivity tools (such as collaborative digital file sharing, collaborative digital whiteboards etc).

Organizations should have a clear set of objectives for their digital workplace, accompanied with a timeline for execution. This is the digital workplace strategy.

DMS

Digital multiplex system

DN

Directory number

DNIS

Dialled number identification system

DP

Dial plan

DPCODE

Dial peer code

DPNSS

Digital private network signalling system

DSL

Digital subscriber line

DTMF

Dual-tone multi-frequency

Dynamic Data Processing and Delivery

A method for distributed processing of data and multi-threaded distribution within heterogeneous cluster-based and standalone server architectures.

E164

ITU-T recommendation defining PSTN numbering plan E164

E164 numbers

E164 numbers must always be unique

EDRs

Event data records

EISUP

Extended ISDN user part

EOL

End of line / End of life

EXT

Extension and external prefix

EXTN

Extension

FCAPS is an acronym for the following operational systems:

– Fault management
– Configuration management
– Accounting management
– Performance management
– Security management

The purpose for ISO’s FCAPS initiative was based on everyone understanding that the full suite of FCAPS was necessary to maintain your IT and network systems to a high level.

FDM

Frequency-division multiplexing

FINT or Fint

Full internal number = CPID + RID + SLC + EXTN Cisco Unified CM DN

FMC

Fixed mobile convergence

FNN

Full national number

GK

Gatekeeper

Glassfish

Open source application server

GPRS

General packet radio service

GSM

Global system for mobile communications

GUI

Graphical user interface

GW

Gateway

H.264

Standard for video encoding

HCS

Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution

H-UCS

Hosted Unified Communication Solution (HUCS) is a comprehensive, converged IP communications system of data, voice, video, and mobility applications, enabling more effective and secure personal communications that directly affect both sales and profitability

H – M-UCS

Hosted – managed – unified communications solution

Hosted UCS

Hosted unified communications solution

A hybrid working model is where staff are free to perform their daily tasks from home or from the office.

ICPID

Call processing identifier, IPPBX-based

IDDD

International direct distance dialling

ILEC

Incumbent local exchange carrier

IM

Instant messaging

IMACS

Stands for Installs, Moves, Adds and Change

IMS

IP multimedia subsystem

Industry 4.0 (also known as the fourth industrial revolution or 4IR) is changing the way that companies manufacture, improve, and distribute their products. By adopting and integrating the very latest technologies (including IoT, cloud computing, performance management and analytics, AI, machine learning and RPA), organizations are harnessing interconnectivity and smart automation to improve the industrial landscape.

IOS

Internetwork operating system

IP

Internet protocol

IP-PBX

An IP (Internet Protocol) PBX (Private branch exchange) is a PBX that provides audio, video, and instant messaging communication through the TCP/IP protocol stack for its internal network and interconnects its internal network with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) for telephony communication.

IP addressing

IP addressing should be unique

IPT

Internet protocol telephony (IP telephony)

IP Unity

Now Movius

ISC

Cisco IP Solution Centre

ISD

International subscriber dialling

ISDN

Integrated services digital network

ISP

Inter-site prefix

ISR

Integrated services router

ISUP

ISDN user part

ITIL stands for the IT Infrastructure Library. According to CIO.com, ITIL is a framework of best practices for delivering IT services. CIO explains that ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale and change.

IT Service Management (ITSM) is the process in which a team manages the end-to-end delivery of IT services to customers. At the heart of ITSM is the belief that IT should be delivered as a service. ITSM includes all processes and activities to design, create, deliver, and support IT services.

IVR

Interactive voice response

Location name

Location name must be unique within a customer

LDAP

Lightweight directory access protocol

LRID

Routing identifier, location-based

VOSS MaaS (Management as a Service) provides all the capabilities and benefits of our award-winning and industry-leading VOSS product suite, with the added convenience and benefit of a hosted delivery model. VOSS MaaS makes it faster and easier to implement and realize the benefits of an end-to-end collaboration automation solution.

MAC address

A media access control address

MACs

Moves, Adds, Changes

MACDs

Moves, Adds, Changes, Deletes

MDF

Main distribution frame

MF

Multi-frequency

MF

Multi-frequency

MGCP

Media gateway control protocol

MML

Man-machine language

MSP

Managed Service Provider

MT

Multi-tenant

MWI

Message waiting indicator

NANP

North American numbering plan

Netwise

Netwise CMG telephony server

NGN

Next generation network

NOA

Nature of address

NTP

Network time protocol

OSS

Operations support systems

OTT

Over the top players, such as Amazon, Google

OVA

Open virtual appliance

OVF

Open virtualization format

PABX

Private automated branch exchange

PBX

Private branch exchange

PCC

Padded country code

PGW

PSTN gateway

Phone MAC address

See the MAC Address glossary entry

Phone Server is a telephony application server that provides registration and call handling features for devices (SIP Phones, Clients and End-Points). It is installed into the same network as the client end-points and then connected (SIP Trunking) into the existing UC or telephony system.

PMBX

Private manual branch exchange

POTS

Plain old telephone service

PRI

Primary rate interface

PSTN

Public switched telephone network

PTT

Push to talk

QoS

Quality of service

QSIG

Q signalling

PCC

Padded country code

Protocol Gateway

Cisco PGW (Protocol Gateway)

RCMAC

Recent change memory administration centre

REST

In computing, representational state transfer (REST) is the software architectural style of the worldwide web. REST gives a coordinated set of constraints to the design of components in a distributed hypermedia system that can lead to a higher-performing and more maintainable architecture.

RESTful

To the extent that systems conform to the constraints of REST they can be called RESTful. RESTful systems typically, but not always, communicate over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with the same HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) which web browsers use to retrieve web pages and to send data to remote servers. REST interfaces with external systems using resources identified by Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

RID

Routing ID

ROI

Return on investment

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation technology that makes it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate human actions and interact with digital systems and software.

SCCP

Skinny client control protocol

Scripting Engine

Automate external scriptable operations including automatically configuring devices like routers and switches, executing external shell operations, file and data handling, and text-based data processing to name just a few.

SDN

Software defined networking

SDP

Service delivery platform

SF

Single frequency supervision tone (2600)

SIMPLE

Session initiation protocol for instant messaging & presence leveraging extensions (SIP IM & Presence)

SIP

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol, widely used for setting up and tearing down multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over the Internet.

SIP Trunking

An internet telephony service provider would provide SIP trunking to enterprises that want to make full use of their installed IP-PBXs and communicate internally and externally over IP. Unlike in traditional telephony, where bundles of physical wires were once delivered from the service provider to a business, a SIP trunk allows a company to replace these traditional fixed PSTN lines with PSTN connectivity via a SIP trunking service provider on the internet.

SLC

Site location code (unique within a customer)

SME

Small to medium sized enterprise

SMS

Short message service or text messages

SNMP

Simple network management protocol

SNR

Single number reach

SOAP

Simple object access protocol

SP

Service provider

SRST

Survivable remote site telephony

SS7

Signalling system 7

SSO

Single sign on

STD

Subscriber trunk dialing

TAPI

Telephony application programming interface

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership

TCP/IP Network

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite (IP), and is so common that the entire suite is often called TCP/IP

TON

Type of number

TTS

Text to speech

UAX

Unit automatic exchange

UC

Unified communications

UC&C

Unified communications and collaboration

UC SDP

Unified communications service delivery platform

Unified communications as a service

UC SDP

Unified communications service delivery platform

Virtualization

The decoupling of logical resources (such as processing power, memory, and storage) from physical assets (such as computational hosts)

VM

Virtual machine

VOIP

Voice over internet protocol

VOSS-4-UC

Modular UC management architecture from VOSS, now known at VOSS Automate

VOSS Automate

Digital workplace management platform

UC performance management platform

VOSS Migrate

UC big data transformation platform

WAP

Wireless application protocol

WebRTC

Web real-time communication

WTAI

Wireless telephony applications interface

XML

Extensible markup language

XMPP

Extensible messaging & Presence protocol (Jabber)