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Oracle® Communications Session Monitor Mediation Engine Connector User's Guide
Release 3.3.80

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Glossary

AOR

Address Of Record.

B2BUA

Back-to-back User Agent. A logical entity that receives a request and processes it as a UAS. In order to determine how the request should be answered, it acts as a UAC and generates requests. See RFC 3261 for details.

BSS

Business Support System.

Call leg

A call leg is the portion of the call between two SIP devices.

CDR

Call Detail Record.

Codec

COmpressor/DECompressor, algorithms for compressing and decompressing data.

CSV

Comma Separated Values. An exchange format for tabular data understood by Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org, and many other applications.

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Used for automatically assigning network addresses.

Diameter

Network protocol for data exchange, database access, accounting and policy control, successor of Radius.

DNS

Domain name service.

DoS

Denial of Service.

ENUM

Protocol based on DNS used within IMS for routing decisions.

E-Model

Computational model for use in transmission planning. Defined by the ITU in recommendation G.107.

Egress device

An egress device is the SIP device through which the call leaves the platform.

A more formal definition: An egress call leg is one which has as source a device from the platform, and the destination IP address is from outside the platform. A device is an egress device from a call if it is the source device of an egress call leg. If the call is terminated by a gateway device, this device is also considered an egress device.

Ethernet

Family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs).

FTP

File Transfer Protocol.

HA

High Availability.

HTML

HyperText Markup Language.

HTTP cookie

Information unit from a web server for purposes of identification and customization. It is stored by the web browser and accessed by the server during subsequent visits.

H.248

Gateway control protocol.

H.323

VoIP protocol defined by ITU-T.

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol. Defined in RFC 792.

Ie-eff

Effective equipment impairment factor. See ITU recommendation G.107.

IMS

IP Multimedia Subsystem.

Ingress device

An ingress device is the SIP device through which the call enters the platform.

A more formal definition: An ingress call leg is one which has as destination a device from the platform, and the source IP address is from outside the platform. A device is an ingress device from a call if it is the destination device of an ingress call leg. If the call is created by a gateway device, this device is also considered an ingress device.

IP

Internet Protocol. Defined in RFC 791.

ISUP

ISDN user part.

ITU

International Telecommunication Union.

Javascript

A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to web pages.

Jitter

A measure of the variability over time of the latency across a network. Term generally used in the VoIP environment describing the variation in delay between packets.

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight computer data interchange format.

LISP

Mature high-level programming language based on lambda calculus.

ME

Mediation Engine. The ME is the core of the Session Monitor product family running the real-time data processing and serves the frontend and interfaces.

Megaco

Gateway control protocol.

MEGACO TerminationID

Termination IDs of physical Terminations are provisioned in the Media Gateway.

MEGACO ContextID

A Context is an association between a number of Terminations. The Context describes the topology (who hears/sees whom) and the media mixing and/or switching parameters if more than two Terminations are involved in the association.

MEGACO Transaction

MEGACO Commands between the Media Gateway Controller and the Media Gateway are grouped into Transactions.

MGCP

Media Gateway Control Protocol.

MIB

Management Information Base.

MOS

The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) provides a numerical indication of the perceived quality of the received media. The MOS is expressed as single number in the range of 1 to 5. MOS is always measured by humans. Software products and devices like Session Monitor Operations Monitor can only estimate it, the result being MOS-LQE (listening quality estimate).

The estimation is done based on a set of static parameters and taking into account a set of factors related to the flow of the voice packets throughout the network. The content of the packets is not deeply inspected. This can have an impact in such cases where a call is hopping over multiple media processors, resulting in multiple legs, some of which are not available to Session Monitor Operations Monitor (like foreign network segments, TDM etc). In these cases, only the maximum possible voice quality over the inspected segments is provided, rather then an absolute estimate, end-to-end.

In other words, if one of the media legs not accessible to Session Monitor Operations Monitor will degrade the quality, a processor downstream will decode the signal and re-packetize it to good parameters, but without enhancing it back, Session Monitor Operations Monitor might rate the call higher then the human listener will actually perceive it.

MOS Quality Impairment
5 Excellent Imperceptible
4 Good Perceptible but not annoying
3 Fair Slightly annoying
2 Poor Annoying
1 Bad Very annoying

NIC

Network Interface Card.

NTP

Network Time Protocol.

OID

Object IDentifiers.

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection. A joint ISO and ITU-T standard for computer networks and communication protocols.

OSS

Operations Support System.

PCAP

Packet Capture file format. Used by many network analyzers including the open source tool Wireshark. The stored messages contain TCP/UDP headers, IP header and Layer 2 headers, plus the timestamp at which the message was received.

PDF

Portable Document Format. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

Probe

A probe is a software to collect raw signaling and/or media traffic. Probes can be configured to be running locally within the Mediation Engine, externally on dedicated probe machines or integrated with Oracle Communications Session Border Controller.

Proxy

An intermediary entity that acts as both a server and a client for the purpose of making requests on behalf of other clients. A proxy server primarily plays the role of routing. See RFC 3261 for details.

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network.

R-Factor

Voice quality score on a scale from 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service is a networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) management for computers to connect and use a network service.

REST

Representational State Transfer. A convention for web services.

RSPAN

Remote SPAN.

RTP

Real-time Transport Protocol. Used for transporting media. Defined in RFC 3550.

RTCP

Real-time Transport Control Protocol. Used for reporting end point media quality information.

RTT

Round-Trip Time. The time elapsed for a message to a remote target and back again.

SBC

Session Border Controller. Used in some VoIP networks to offer decoupling, interoperability, and to hide the internal topology. They are typically involved in the signalling and often also relay the media streams. From the SIP point of view, they are usual B2BUAs.

SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol. Is a Transport Layer protocol ensuring reliable, insequence transport of messages with congestion control.

SDP

Session Description Protocol. Defined in RFC 4566.

SIGTRAN

Suite of protocols to enable the use of SS7 over IP networks.

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol. Defined in RFC 3261.

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol.

SPAN

Switched Port Analyzer.

SPIT

SPAM over Internet Telephony.

SS7

Signaling System 7

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol.

UAC

User Agent Client. The SIP element that creates a new request; usually the caller's SIP device in case of calls, or the user's SIP device in case of registrations. For details, see RFC 3261, Section 6.

UAS

User Agent Server. The SIP element answering the request; usually the callee's SIP device, or a SIP server. For details, see RFC 3261, Section 6.

UDP

User Datagram Protocol.

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier.

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network.

VRRP

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol. A redundancy protocol described in RFC 3768.

XML

The eXtensible Markup Language is a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents.