voice mail

The intervention of a voice processor in order that a caller can leave a voice message in the event that the incoming call encounters a busy signal or a no answer condition. In such an event, the telephone system (KTS, PBX, Centrex, or CO) directs the call to the voice processor, which answers the call with a default or customized greeting and directs the incoming call to a voice mailbox associated with a particular user or application. The voice processor digitizes, compresses, and stores the voice incoming

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• noise
• nominal
• non-blocking
• non-deterministic
• non-dialable toll points
• non dispersion-shifted fiber (NDSF)
• non-facility associated signaling (NFAS)
• non-line-of-sight (NLOS)
• nonpersistent carrier sense multiple access (Nonpersistent CSMA)
• Nonpersistent CSMA (Nonpersistent Carrier Sense Multiple Access)
• non-real-time (nrt)
• non real-time variable bit rate (nrt-VBR)
• non-repudiation
• non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
• non-wireline carrier
• non-wireline carrier
• Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT)
• Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT)
• normal
• North American Numbering Council (NANC)
• North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
• North American Time Division Multiple Access (NA-TDMA)
• NOS (Network Operating System)
• notation
• Not To Act Like It)