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American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
A professional technical association that supports standards for transmission, protocol, and high-level languages. ANSI
standards are for voluntary use in the US.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
The standard code that small computers use to convert letters, characters, numbers, and control codes into digital form.
Each character is represented by an 8-bit code that includes a parity bit. See also Extended Binary-Coded Decimal
Interexchange Code (EBCDIC).
American Wire Gauge (AWG)
The US standard to measure the gauge of copper, aluminum, and other nonferrous conductors.
AMW
Automatic Message Waiting
AN
Analog
analog
The representation of information by continuously variable physical quantities such as amplitude, frequency, and phase.
See also
digital.
analog data
Data that is transmitted over a digital facility in analog form. The data must pass through a modem at both ends, or at a
modem pool at the distant end.
analog telephone
A telephone that receives acoustic voice signals and sends analog electrical signals along the telephone line. Analog
telephones are usually served by a single wire pair that is known as tip and ring. The model-2500 telephone set is an
example of an analog telephone.
analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
A device that converts an analog signal to a digital signal. See also
digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
ANI
See
Automatic Number Identification (ANI).
announcements
Recorded messages that a telephone system plays for callers.
ANSI
See American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
.
answerback code
A number that is used to respond to a page from a code-calling or a loudspeaker-paging system, or to retrieve a parked
call.
AOL
Attendant-offered load
AP
See applications processor (AP).
applications processor (AP)
A special-purpose computer that attaches to a telephone system, and that is used for voice mail and other applications.
APLT
See Advanced Private-Line Termination (APLT)
.