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`lllorch 2003
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`Session iceg
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`swing dial tone speed and incoming matching loss coincide as closely as pos-
`- ‘Service Observing lrllonth.
`oinis The points on the customer's premises where such channels or facil-
`ated in switching equipment used for communications with phones or cus-
`equipment located on the premises.
`or-inisiiiiy Atelephone company ATN term. The ability of an end user to
`We geographic or non-geographic telephone number (NANP numbers) as
`was from one type of service to another. The INC Number Portability Workshop
`Ni’ numbers (eg, BOO, SOO, 555, 950) should not be service ponable for
`‘do of their respective industry approved service definitions or guidelines,
`itions or guidelines exist.
`an
`rofiie Identifier See SPlD.
`raviafer T.
`it
`the broadest sense, a service provider is any company
`esservice to anyone else. Thatmeons a service provider could be a phone com-
`lorrn of either a LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) or IXC (lnterel(change Carrier).
`ASP (Apo|icatior Service Provider). It could be an ISP (Internet Service
`nice provider is thus any company which doesn't itself consume all of the
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`indows Telephony Applications standard which lies between Windows Telephony
`(work. it defines how ‘he network— anything from POTS (Plain Old Telephone
`,fram a key system to a Plill — interfaces to Windows Telephony, which
`‘the Applications F ogramming Interface, which talks to the Windows teleph-
`ans software. See also Windows Telephony.
`{SA computer telephony definition. An addressable entity providing applicafon
`we support to the client environment by responding to client requests and
`operational integrity of the server.
`ovider Interface See SPI. See Windows Telephony.
`wider Messages An SCSA definition. The message informaton
`cl provided by, the senrice provider to perform its functions in the environ-
`lSli15lT]llGil. Contrast with SCSA Message Frotocol Interface. See Servce
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`ovider Network Identifier SPNT. An identilier for the soy-
`raling a particular CDFD network.
`P ovicier Porinbiiity A telephone company AIN term. The ability of
`retain the same geographic or non-geographic telephone number (NA
`/she change form one service provider to another.
`ovisioning Toni What the computer industry calls a network ma -
`_p one industry calls a service provisioning tool. It
`is a complex piece of soft-
`telephone companies to contact their various switches and sundry comput-
`era wide geographic area, to log onto those machines and to upload, down-
`_ ze those machines so they are able to make different, new, updated soft-
`for the telephone industry's customers. Telephone companies use various net-
`their remote switches. Those networks might vary from dial-up to ISON to
`at networls to T-T. The better service provisioning tools allow one technician
`ate and test multiple central offices and computers simultaneously.
`' gr A call center term. A measure of how well stalling matches work-
`often as average delay (in answering a call).
`rnoinnl The equipment needed to terminate the channel and connect to
`_. rotus or customer terminal.
`Tinfiic Management STAT. The platform functionality for detecting
`ated with a specific service and for sending service-specific control mes-
`propriate entities. STAT is the SLEE (Service Logic Execution Environment)
`detecting overloads associated with a specific service and for sending
`Gap messages to the appropriate entities. The SN8.llil (Service Negotiation
`parent) OA (Operations Application)
`also provides
`STAA (Senrice Traffic
`lated capabilities.
`pie Service type and level pair. For example, the service tuple data-band-
`consists of the service type data-bandwidth and the service level 45 Albps.
`itching Point SSP. A telephone company Alli term. A switching sys-
`s remotes, that identifies calls associated with intelligent network services
`ogues with the SCPs in which the logic for the services resides. See SSP.
`gr Iiow easy a system is to configure, service, maintain and repair.
`nnngemem Syslem SllrlS. Administers BOO Data Base Service
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`numbers on a national basis. Customer records for BOO Senrice are entered into the SCP
`through this system. See Eighthunclred Senrice.
`Services Neale SN. A network system in the AIN architecture containing functions
`that enable flexible information interachons between an end user and the network.
`Services On Demand An AT8.T term for the immediate provision of almost any
`network service through universal pans, whenever required by a user; as opposed to pro-
`vision via an expensive, time consuming, inflexible service order process.
`Serving Area: Interface A serving area interface is part of a phone company's
`outside plant. It is a fancy name for a box on a pole, a box attached to a wall or a box in
`the ground that connects the phone company's feeder or subfeeder cables (those coming
`from the central office) to the drop wires or buried service wires that connect to the cus-
`tomer's premises. It‘s also called a cross-wire box. See also Feeder Plant and Drop Wire.
`Serving Close! The general term used to refer to either a riser or a satellite closet;
`Satellite Cabinet, Satellite Closet.
`Serving Mobile Darin Intermediate System A celular radio term.
`The CDPD network entity that operates the llrlobile Serving Function. ile serving Ali]-IS
`communicates with and is the peer endpoint for the llIlDlP connection to the til-ES.
`Serving Office An office of ATKT or its Connecting or Concurring Carriers, from
`which interstate communications services are furnished.
`Serving Wire The term for the phone number that serves the loca‘ion, referring to
`the phone number and terminating wire as one unit. Usually applies to a POTS number.
`Serving Wire Center The wire center from which service is provided to the cus-
`tamer.
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`Servlei An appiet that runs on a sewer. The term usually refers to a ava applet that
`runs within a Web server Web server environment. This is analogous to a ova applet that
`runs within a Web browser browser environment. Java servlets are becarrng increasingly
`popular as an alternative to {GT programs. The biggest difference between the two is that
`a lava applet is persistent. This means that once it is started, it stays in
`emory and can
`fulfill multiple requests. In contrast, a CGi program disappears once it hasfufilled a request.
`The persistence of Java applets makes them foster because there's no wos‘ed time in set-
`ting up and tearing down the process.
`Servo Shortfor servamechanism. Devices which constantly detect a variable, and adiust
`a mechanism to respond to changes. A servo might monitor optical signal strength bounc-
`ing baclc from a disc's surface, and CidiJ5l the position of the head to compensate.
`SERVORD Service Order.
`SIS l. Satellite Earth Stations.
`2. Severely Errored Second. Aseco d in which a severe number of errors are detected
`over a digital circuit. Each error comprses a code violation (CV), such as a bipolar viola-
`tian. The specific definition of SES depends on the type of circuit involved, e.g. T-T, T-3,
`OC-3 and OC48. See also CV and ES.
`3. Source End Station: An Ailtlr ternination point, which is the source of ATM messages
`of a connection, and is used as a reference pointfur ABR services. See DES.
`Sesame Secure European System for Applications in a lilultivendor Environment.
`Developed by the ECAAA (European Conrputer Manufacturers Association), it is intended for
`very large networks of disparate origin.
`Session T.Asetoftransmittars and receivers, and the data streams thatflow between
`them. In otherwords,-on active commuricotion, measured from beginning to end, between
`devices or applications over a network. Often used in reference to terminal-to-mainframe
`connections. Also a data conversation between two devices, say, a dumb terminal and a
`mainframe. It may be possible to have more than one session going between two devices
`simultaneously.
`2. As defined under the Orange Book, a recorded segment of a compact disc which may
`contain one or more backs of any type (data or audio). The session is a purely logical con-
`cept; when a multisession disc is mounted in a multisession CD—ROrlrl player, what the user
`will see is one large session encompassing all the data on the disc.
`Session Description Pretmol See SDP.
`Session Group logically ordered list of sessions based on priority of the sessions.
`All tfle sessions in the session group should be configured to connect the same physical
`mac Ines.
`Session lniliniion Protecel See SIP.
`Session key A digital key that is created by the client, encrypted, and sent to the
`server. This key is used to encrypt data sent by the client. See also Certificate, Digital
`Signature and Key Fair.
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