Verilink Access Manager 2000 (896-502037-001) Product Manual - Manual (Page 348)

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Point-to-point A term used to describe a circuit that interconnects two points directly.
Port The point of access into a computer network or other electronic device.
Power Supply
(PAC/PDC) A power supply is the device which converts AC to DC or DC to a
different DC voltage for use by the NCCs, TACs, DIUs, etc.
Privileged
Password A password that allows an ACSII terminal operator to perform network
management functions on a Access System 2000 module.
Q, R
QRSS See Quasi-Random Signal Sequence.
Quasi-Random
Signal Sequence One of four test patterns sent from the CSU. It is used to diagnose
problems with either equipment or the telco DS-1 line.
RAI See Remote Alarm Indication.
RAM See Random Access Memory.
Random Access
Memory A memory device whereby any location in memory can be written to or
retrieved from with the same average speed. RAM is usually measured
in kilobytes.
Read-Only
Memory A memory device which can only be read.
Remote Alarm
Indication See Yellow Alarm.
Remote Alarm
Indication
Seconds The number of seconds during which a CSU is in Yellow Alarm. The
RAIS counts are stored by the NCCs and CSUs in Access System 2000
nodes.
Register A circuit in a CSU that stores a T1 circuit performance data parameters
for retrieval by an ASCII terminal operator or AM2000. Each register
can be reset by an authorized operator after data retrieval.
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