Dialogic M7324 User Manual

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1.  How to Use This Manual 
1.1.  Audience 
This manual is intended for programmers and engineers who choose to use 
Dialogic
®
 PBX Integration Boards and Dialogic
® 
APIs to develop a computer 
telephony application for use on a PBX.  
When this manual addresses “you,” it means “you, the programmer,” and when 
this manual refers to the “user,” it means an end-user of an application program. 
1.2.  Product Terminology 
This manual includes information relevant to those choosing to use a Private 
Branch Exchange
 (PBX) or Key Telephone System (KTS) with a Dialogic
® 
PBX 
Integration Board. A PBX is a privately owned, mini version of a telephone 
company’s central office (CO) switch. Grouped with PBXs are KTSs, which are 
generally smaller versions of a PBX that provide direct access to CO telephone 
lines. For simplicity, the term PBX is sometimes used herein to denote a PBX, a 
KTS, or both. 
In a PBX environment a line from the CO is called a trunk and a phone is called a 
lineextension, or station
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