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- Active Directory (AD)
Microsoft’s directory system, which consolidates a network’s user and device information.
- address signaling
The process of transmitting dialed digits.
- a-Law
A companding (that is, COMpressing exPANDING) algorithm used in countries outside the U.S. and Japan, which has a superior signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio for lower-volume samples, as compared to u-Law.
- aliasing
Reconstructing samples incorrectly due to a lack of sufficient samples being taken.
- alternate mark inversion (AMI)
An approach of representing binary 1s as voltages with alternating polarities.
- amplitude
The volume of a waveform.
- analog
A continuously varying waveform.
- auxiliary VLAN
The VLAN (that is, subnet) used to carry voice packets.
- availability
A measurement indicating ...
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