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S8100 Installation and Upgrades 393
November 2003
circuit pack
A card on which electrical circuits are printed, and IC chips and electrical components are installed. A
circuit pack is installed in a switch carrier.
CMC1
A cabinet formerly called a CMC (compact modular cabinet) which, when equipped with protocol-
conversion hardware and software such as an S8100 Media Server, is a media gateway.
Communication Manager
The communication application that runs on Avaya servers to provide call control and telephony
features. Formerly called MultiVantage software or Avaya Call Processing (ACP).
communications system
The software-controlled processor complex that interprets dialing pulses, tones, and keyboard
characters and makes the proper connections both within the system and external to the system. The
communications system itself consists of a digital computer, software, storage device, and carriers
with special hardware to perform the connections. A communications system provides voice and data
communications services, including access to public and private networks, for telephones and data
terminals on a customer’s premises. See also, switch
on page 399.
compact modular cabinet (CMC)
See CMC1
on page 393 and media gateway on page 396.
The chassis and shelf hardware used to support an S8100’s hardware platform, derived from (actually
the same as) a DEFINITY ProLogix cabinet.
correlation ID
A temporary number that is created during the FET process. This number needs to be entered in RFA
during the switch-configuration file’s upload process.
CSA
Canadian Safety Association
D
digital
The representation of information by discrete steps. See also, analog
on page 391.
digital trunk
A circuit that carries digital voice and/or digital data in a telecommunications channel.
E
E1
A digital transmission standard that carries traffic at 2.048 Mbps. The E1 facility is divided into
32 channels (DS0s) of 64-kbps information. Channel 0 is reserved for framing and synchronization
information. A D channel occupies Channel 16.
F
FAC
Feature access code
FAS
Facility-associated signaling