Nortel Networks NN43021-110 - Manual (Page 66)

66 List of terms
CBT
Core Bus Terminator
CE
Common Equipment
Central Office (CO)
The site where a telephone company terminates customer lines and houses
the switching equipment that interconnects those lines.
central processing unit (CPU)
The main portion of a computer that contains the primary storage, arithmetic
and logic units, and the control unit (may also mean a mainframe computer).
circuit cards
Cards which carry the electronics for particular functions (such as memory
and switching functions). Most cards are housed in the card cage in a
module and connect to the backplane. Some cards must be installed in
dedicated slots in a card cage. (Also called circuit packs or boards.)
CNI
Core-to-Network Interface
CO
See Central Office.
Common Equipment (CE)
A hardware subsystem that houses one or more central processing units
(CPUs), memory cards, disk drive units, and service cards.
configuration
A group of machines (hardware) that are interconnected and are
programmed to operate as a system.
CP
Call Processor
cPCI ®
Peripheral Component Interconnect. PCI provides a high-speed data path
between the CPU and peripheral devices (video, disk, network, etc.).
cPCI Transition card
Peripheral Component Interconnect Transition Card. Connects the Core
module cards to the 3PE cards in the Network modules.
Nortel Communication Server 1000
Communication Server 1000M and Meridian 1 Large System Overview
NN43021-110 01.03 Standard
Release 5.0 18 February 2008
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