Glossary
New or novice users my find this basic glossary useful when using their Asterisk VOIP, a few telephone industry acronyms CDR: Call Data Records or Call Detail Records. These are logs of calls that have passed through the phone system. GUI: Usually pronounced “gooey”, Acronym for Graphical User Interface, the graphical administration software used to manipulate the phone system Inbound call: This is a call from a regular telephone number to your PBX. Also referred to as Origination ITSP: Acronym for Internet Telephony Service Provider. This is a company that allows calls to and from ‘normal’ telephone numbers (PSTN) NGN: Acronym for Non Geographic Numbers,…