Grandstream Networks GXW-410xv User Manual

FQDN  Fully Qualified Domain Name.  A FQDN consists of a host and domain name, including top-lev
domain. For example, 

el 

www.grandstream.com

 is a fully qualified domain name. www is the host, 

Grandstream is the second-level domain, and and.com is the top level domain.  
 
FXO  Foreign eXchange Office.  An FXO device can be an analog phone, answering machine, fax, or 
anything that handles a call from the telephone company like AT&T. They should also operate the s
way when connected to an FXS interface.  

•  An FXO interface will accept calls from FXS or PSTN interfaces. All countries and regions have 

their own standards.  

ame 

•  FXO is complimentary to FXS (and the PSTN).  

tation.  An FXS device has hardware to generate the ring signal to the FXO 

xtension (usually an analog phone).  

TS+PSTN for the phone.  

•  The FXS Interface connects to FXO devices (by an FXO interface, of course).  

rotocol (DHCP) is an Internet protocol for automating the 

, to 

vide 

 
FXS  Foreign eXchange S
e

•  An FXS device will allow any FXO device to operate as if it were connected to the phone 

company. This makes your PBX the PO

 
DHCP  The Dynamic Host Configuration P
configuration of computers that use TCP/IP. DHCP can be used to automatically assign IP addresses
deliver TCP/IP stack configuration parameters such as the subnet mask and default router, and to pro
other configuration information such as the addresses for printer, time and news servers. 
 
ECHO CANCELLATION  Echo Cancellation is used in 

 to describe the process of removing 

improving quality, this process improves 

silence suppression

 by 

.  There are two types of echo of relevance in telephony: 

acoustic echo and hybrid echo. 

Speech compression

 techniques and 

digital processing

 delay often 

contribute to echo generation in 

telephone networks

. 

 
H.323  A suite of standards for multimedia conferences on traditional packet-switched networks. 

yper Text Transfer Pr

 
HTTP  H

otocol; the World Wide Web protocol that performs the request and retrieve 

function

general term for 

e technologies that use the Internet Protocol's packet-switched connections to exchange voice, fax, and 

acket-switched 

etworks; the process is reversed at the receiving end. The terms IP Telephony and Internet Telephony 

 

P 

s.  

R  IVR is a software application that accepts a combination of voice telephone input and touch-tone 

d 

erhaps other media.  

s of a server 

 
IP  Internet Protocol. A packet-based protocol for delivering data across networks. 
 

BX  IP-based Private Branch Exchange 

ele hony  (Internet Protocol telephony, also known as Voice over IP Telephony) A 

th
other forms of information that have traditionally been carried over the dedicated circuit-switched 
connections of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The basic steps involved in originating an 
IP Telephony call are conversion of the analog voice signal to digital format and compression/translation 
of the signal into Internet protocol (IP) packets for transmission over the Internet or other p
n
are often used to mean the same; however, they are not 100 per cent interchangeable, since Internet is
only a subcase of packet-switched networks. For users who have free or fixed-price Internet access, I
Telephony software essentially provides free telephone calls anywhere in the world. However, the 
challenge of IP Telephony is maintaining the quality of service expected by subscribers. Session border 
controllers resolve this issue by providing quality assurance comparable to legacy telephone system
 
IV
keypad selection and provides appropriate responses in the form of voice, fax, callback, e-mail an
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