Glossary for Avaya Voice Portal

Glossary for Avaya Voice Portal 3.0.1.1 June 2006

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Preface This section contains the following topics: Purpose on page 7 Audience on page 7 Related documents on page 7 Purpose The purpose of this guide is to provide definitions for the terms used in Avaya Voice Portal. Audience This guide is intended primarily for everyone who uses Avaya Voice Portal. Related documents The other documents in the Voice Portal library include: Planning for Avaya Voice Portal Installing, Upgrading, and Configuring Avaya Voice Portal Administering Avaya Voice Portal Managing Speech Applications for Avaya Voice Portal Troubleshooting Avaya Voice Portal Events and associated alarms Glossary for Voice Portal June 2006 7

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Glossary ADR AES ANI API Application Detail Record ARIA ASR Automatic Number Identification Automatic Speech Recognition Call Data Handler Call Detail Record CCXML CDH CDR See Application Detail Record. Advanced Encryption Standard. A symmetric data encryption standard which uses 128-bit block size for encryption. Automatic Number Identification. A service that provides the originating telephone number of a call coming in to the system. Application Programming Interface. A set of routines, protocols, and tools used as building blocks for creating software applications. Abbreviated ADR. Data records which contain historical information about an application used as part of a session. These records include information such as the session ID number, a timestamp, and a "friendly name" string determined by the developer who created the application. Legacy voice messaging software. See Automatic Speech Recognition. See ANI. Abbreviated ASR. Technology that allows a computer to recognize spoken words and respond appropriately. Abbreviated CDH. The component within the VPMS responsible for downloading and storing data from the MPP pertaining to call history events. The types of records downloaded include the Call Detail Record, the Session Detail Record, and the Application Detail Record. Abbreviated CDR. Data records which contain historical information pertaining to a call. These records may include information such as the ANI (Automatic Number Identification) of the caller, the duration of the call, and the outcome of the call. Call Control extensible Markup Language. An emerging XML specification, being developed to work in conjunction with VoiceXML and which addresses some of the technical limitations of VoiceXML. It enables the processing of asynchronous events, filtering and routing of incoming calls, and placement of outbound calls. Note that it is not intended to replace VoiceXML but rather to supplement it. For more information, see Ian Moraes s excellent article, "VoiceXML, CCXML, SALT: Architectural Tools for Enabling Speech Applications," on the Internet. See Call Data Handler. See Call Detail Record. Glossary for Voice Portal June 2006 9

CPU CPU Data Encryption Standard DNIS fault management Central Processing Unit. The part of a computer that interprets and executes instructions. Abbreviated DES. A symmetric data encryption standard which uses 56-bit block size for encryption. Dialed Number Identification Service. A service that identifies for the receiving system what telephone number was dialed by the caller. In the Voice Portal system this is often used to direct the call to a particular speech application, which is identified with that dialed number. Detection, isolation, and correction of failures or performance degradation in network elements. These failures or errors are commonly known as events and alarms. fault tolerance The ability of a system to recover, without intervention, from one or more system failures or errors to a reliable, stable state, even if only to a less functional state. H.323 A hierarchical, IP-based telephony standard for connecting IP telephones and speech applications to switches. IDE INADS Integrated Development Environment Intuity LDAP Media Processing Platform Media Resource Control Protocol MMS Integrated Development Environment. A software application that typically provides a GUI environment, a text and/or code editor, a compiler and/or interpreter, and a debugger. This allows application or web developers to develop, test, and build their applications or websites within a single integrated space. Initialization and Administration System. Used by Avaya Services personnel located at the Technical Service Center (TSC) to initialize, administer and troubleshoot customer communications systems remotely. SSG - Secure Services Gateway. Device on customer network that provides secure remote access and alarming via Avaya Services. See IDE. Legacy Avaya messaging platform. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A set of protocols and standards for accessing information directories. Abbreviated MPP. The component of the Avaya Voice Portal system that is responsible for accepting incoming calls, accessing the appropriate speech applications, coordinating speech resources, and communicating with the switches or gateways, using H.323 or SIP. Abbreviated MRCP. A communication protocol which allows speech servers to provide various speech services (such as speech recognition and speech synthesis) to its clients. MPP Management Service. A Web service on the MPP that the VPMS uses to send heart-beat requests, configuration changes, and commands. 10 Glossary for Voice Portal June 2006

Session Initiation Protocol MPP MRCP MultiVantage NMS OAM&P OMS OMS Poller Operations Management Server persistence persistent data RTP RTSP SDR Secure Services Gateway Session Detail Record Session Initiation Protocol See Media Processing Platform. See Media Resource Control Protocol. An Avaya call-processing software and PBX product line. Network Management System. The system responsible for managing a network or a portion of a network. The NMS can also listen for traps from devices. Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning. See Operations Management Server. A component of VPMS which: Periodically polls each MPP to retrieve status information Distributes telephony ports Sends configuration information and state commands to manage the MPP Abbreviated OMS. The Avaya server used by the OMS Poller. The characteristic that allows a software object to continue to exist despite changes in time, location, or the context in which the object was established. Data which is held in storage in such a way that it is retained or archived, even when the system on which it resides is shut down. Examples include Call Detail Record and system configuration data. Real-time Transfer Protocol. A protocol for transmitting "real-time" data, such as audio or video data, across the Internet. This protocol does not guarantee "real-time" delivery of such data, but it does provide mechanisms to support data "streaming." Real Time Streaming Protocol. A protocol for use in streaming media systems which allows a client to remotely control a streaming media server, issuing VCR-like commands such as "play" and "pause", and allowing time-based access to files on a server. See Session Detail Record. Abbreviated SSG. Device on customer network that provides secure remote access and alarming via Avaya Services. Abbreviated SDR. Data records which contain historical information pertaining to a caller s session. These records may include information such as the statistics related to the speech recognition or text-to-speech (TTS) technologies employed as part of the session. See SIP. Glossary for Voice Portal June 2006 11

Simple Network Management Protocol Simple Network Management Protocol SIP SNMP Speech User Interface SSG SSL SUI TCP/IP Telephone User Interface TTS TUI UDP VoiceXML See SNMP. Session Initiation Protocol. A signaling protocol for the Internet that makes it possible to set up conferencing, telephony, events notification, and instant messaging. Within a VoIP framework, it initiates call setup, routing, authentication, to endpoints within an IP domain. Simple Network Management Protocol. Provides a means to monitor and control network devices, and to manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security. See SUI. See Secure Services Gateway. Secure Sockets Layer. A protocol for transmitting private data securely over the Internet. By convention, URLs that use SSL require a connection using the HTTPS protocol, rather than just HTTP. Speech User Interface. Any software interface that allows the user to interact with the system using speech commands and audio prompts. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A protocol for communication between computers, used as a standard for transmitting data over networks and as the basis for standard Internet protocols. See TUI. Text-to-Speech. Technology that allows information in text format to be rendered as audio output using a speech synthesis engine to simulate human speech. Telephone User Interface. Any software interface that allows the user to interact with the system using a telephone or similar device. User Datagram Protocol. A connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive datagrams over an IP network. It is used primarily for broadcasting messages over a network. (Sometimes VXML) Voice extensible Markup Language. A specification that allows a user to interact with Internet-based resources using voice recognition technology. Instead of a typical Web browser that requires a combination of HTML, keyboard, and mouse device, VoiceXML relies on an Internet voice browser and/or telephone. Using VoiceXML, the user interacts with the Web "page" by listening to audio outputs (either pre-recorded or using a technology such as TTS) and by submitting input in the form of the user s natural speaking voice and/or manual responses, such as telephone key presses. 12 Glossary for Voice Portal June 2006

XML Voice Portal VPMS VXML WebLM WSDL XML Avaya Voice Portal is an internet protocol (IP) based platform that supports interactive voice response (IVR) functions. Voice Portal provides an IP-based environment for automated self-service telephone transactions that an operator, attendant, or contact center agent might otherwise perform. Voice Portal Management System. The VPMS is the centralized management system for Voice Portal. Each Voice Portal deployment has a single instance of the VPMS that manages all MPPs within the same system. The VPMS also provides a Web interface for administering a Voice Portal system. See VoiceXML. Avaya License Server which manages licenses for various products. Web Services Description Language. An XML-formatted language used to describe a Web service s capabilities. extensible Markup Language. A specification for the presentation of Internet documents, one which expands on the capabilities of HTML. A pared down version of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), XML allows designers to create their own customized tags, which allows them to do things over the Internet that cannot be done using simple HTML. Glossary for Voice Portal June 2006 13