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Broadband Phone Glossary

Broadband Phone Terms and Features

Here we have provided a list of broadband phone terms and there descriptions. Some of these terms may come in handy when dealing with or looking for a broadband phone provider.

ATA

An adapter that connects to a high-speed Internet connection. It simply turns an analog phone into an IP telephone.

broadband

Broadband refers to communications medium that uses wide-bandwidth channels for sending and receiving large amounts of data, video or voice information.

CALEA

Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act. 1994 legislation that gives law enforcement agencies the right to place wiretaps on new digital wireless networks. CALEA also requires wireless and wireline carriers to make their digital networks able to support law enforcement eavesdropping and wiretapping equipment and activities.

CLEC

Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. A company that creates and operates communication networks and provides customers with an alternative to the local telephone company.

E911

Enhanced 911. A location technology advanced by the FCC that will enable mobile or cellular phones to process 911 emergency calls and enable emergency services to locate the geographic position of the caller.

FCC

Federal Communications Commission - The FCC has the authority to regulate all interstate communications originating in the United States.

Firewall

Security software or appliance that sits between the Internet and the individual PC or networked device. Firewalls can intercept traffic before it reaches network routers and switches, or between router/switch and PC, or both. Because the job of firewalls is to prevent access from specific packets over specific network ports, some must be specially configured to allow VoIP traffic to pass through.

FoIP

The fax counterpart to VoIP, available from some providers either free or at additional cost.

IP Telephony

The transmission of voice and fax phone calls over a packet-based IP data network; synonymous with VoIP.

Jitter

The variation in the amount of Latency among Packets being received

Latency

Also called Delay. The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination. Together, latency and bandwidth define the speed and capacity of a network. In telephony, the lower the latency, the better the communication.

Packet

In data communication, the basic unit of information transferred.

PBX

An in-house telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other, as well as to the outside telephone network.

POTS

This is an acronym for Plain Old Telephone Service.

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network. Also know as Plain Old Telephone System, this refers to the world's collection of interconnected public telephone networks designed primarily for voice traffic.

QOS

Quality of Services. A measure of the service quality for a telecommunication service. This typically involves the specification of latency, jitter, loss, availability etc...

RTP

Real-Time Transport Protocol. Commonly used with IP networks. RTP is designed to provide end-to-end network transport functions for applications transmitting real-time data, such as audio, video, or simulation data, over multicast or unicast network services. RTP provides such services as payload type identification, sequence numbering, time stamping, and delivery monitoring to real-time applications.

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol. An application-layer control protocol, a Signaling protocol for Internet Telephony. SIP can establish sessions for features such as audio/videoconferencing, interactive gaming, and call forwarding to be deployed over IP networks thus enabling service providers to integrate basic IP telephony services with Web, e-mail, and chat services. In addition to user authentication, redirect and registration services, SIP Server supports traditional telephony features such as personal mobility, time-of-day routing and call forwarding based on the geographical location of the person being called.

Softphone

A softphone is a multi-media application that works in association with VoiP technology enabling you to make calls direct from your PC or laptop. Appearing as an image of a telephone on your computer, it can be downloaded from our web site.

Virtual Number

A feature of VoIP that allows you to attach additional phone numbers with different area codes to your basic VoIP service. This feature allows people to phone you without incurring long-distance charges from the same or adjacent nontoll area codes.

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol. The technology behind Internet phones. VoIP works by digitizing voice signals and sending them as packets through the same networking channels as your data.