Description
The skill phones is about phone operations, this includes knowledge on the electronics of phones to network protocols and software managing phone connections(like asterisk and freepbx)
A Phone or Telephone is a device that enables two or more users to communicate via audio, mainly voice. It does this by translating sounds into electronic signals in order to transmit them over longer distances.
Lexicon
A glossary of terms
- VOIP = Voice Over IP
- POTS = Plain Old Telephone System (Analogue phone system)
- ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Network (Digital phone/video system)
- PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network (what POTS & ISDN run on)
- ATA = Analogue Telephone Adapter (connecting analogue phones to VOIP, functions as an FXS)
- SIP = Session Initiation Protocol
- IAX2 = Inter-Asterisk eXchange (protocol)
- FXO#Foreign_exchange_office) = Foreign Exchange Office (analogue phones, faxes, modems)
- FXS#Foreign_exchange_station) = Foreign Exchange Station (analogue telephone interface that provides power, dial-tone and ringing-voltage)
VOIP
- Wiki on VOIP: http://www.voip-info.org/