Glossary

3GP

3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones. 3G2 (3GPP2 file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the 3GPP2 for 3G CDMA2000 multimedia services. It is very similar to the 3GP file format but consumes less space & bandwidth also has some extensions and limitations in comparison to 3GP. (Source: Wikipedia 16.11.2021 3gp)

AES

Advanced Encryption standard is a widespread encryption method that is used for secure data transmission.

Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service; Cloud storage

APAC

Asia-Pacific is the part of the world near the western Pacific Ocean. The Asia-Pacific region varies in area depending on context, but it generally includes Asia, Australia, and Oceania, (02.03.2022 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific)

API

Application Programming Interface

AVI

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is a video container format introduced by Microsoft and which is based on RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) introduced for Windows 3.1. Audio Video Interleave refers to the way that audio and video data are saved. (Source: Wikipedia 19.05.2021)

AWS S3

Amazon Web Services (AWS); cloud storage; object storage service S3: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). (05.09.2022 Source: https://aws.amazon.com/de/s3/?did=ap_card&trk=ap_card)

Azure Datalake

Azure Data Lake Storage is a set of capabilities dedicated to big data analytics, built on Azure Blob Storage. (16.11.2022 Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-introduction)

Blob Storage

Blob Storage is a Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn't adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data. (03.02.2022 Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-overview)

Bloomberg Vault

Bloomberg Vault is an integrated compliance and surveillance solution designed to help international financial services providers meet their regulatory obligations and business standards. Vault enables companies to capture, control, archive, reconstruct, and analyze their electronic communication, trade, and audio data across the entire trade cycle in real time or historically. (05.09.2022 Source: www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/vault/)

Bucket

In the cloud storage environment, a bucket is a container for storing objects in a compartment. Any number of objects can be stored in a bucket. (04.05.2022 Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingBucket.html)

CSV

Comma-separated values is a file format which stores tabular data in plain text form.

DTMF

Dialed Dual Tone Multi Frequency keys represent dialing signals on the analog connecting cable of the telephone. This is a method to transmit the phone number to the telephone network or to a PBX.

EMEA

EMEA is an abbreviation for the European Economic Area, Middle East, and Africa. However, the term is not completely clear, and while it usually refers to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, it is not uncommon for business and other institutions to slightly tweak the countries they include under this umbrella term. (03.02.2022 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East_and_Africa)

EVOlPneo

Name of ASC’s recording solution between Neo Suite and Recording Insights.

FTP

File Transfer Protocol: Network protocol for file transfer

GRS

Geo-redundant storage (GRS) copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS. It then copies your data asynchronously to a single physical location in a secondary region that is hundreds of miles away from the primary region. A write operation is first committed to the primary location and replicated using LRS. The update is then replicated asynchronously to the secondary region. When data is written to the secondary location, it's also replicated within that location using LRS. (03.02.2022 source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy#geo-redundant-storage)

HubStor

HubStor is a SaaS cloud data platform that unifies backup and archive as a service, helping organizations protect their data, simplify their IT infrastructure, and achieve compliance. HubStor uniquely converges data protection, archive, cloud storage, and content indexing as a simple and reliable software service running in any major cloud region around the world. (05.09.2022 Source: www.hubstor.net)

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LRS

Locally redundant storage (LRS) copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region. LRS is the least expensive replication option, but is not recommended for applications requiring high availability or durability. (03.02.2022 source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy)

M4A

MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. (Source: Wikipedia 16.11.2021) The only filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files as defined by the specification is .mp4. MPEG-4 Part 14 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a standard specified as a part of MPEG-4.

M4V

The M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may optionally be protected by DRM copy protection. (Source: Wikipedia 16.11.2021)

MOV

QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. Filename extension: .mov, .qt (Source: Wikipedia 16.11.2021 QuickTime_File_Format)

MP3

With regard to audio compression, MP3 uses lossy data-compression to encode data using inexact approximations and the partial discarding of data. MP3 compression works by reducing (or approximating) the accuracy of certain components of sound that are considered (by psychoacoustic analysis) to be beyond the hearing capabilities of most humans. The remaining audio information is then recorded in a space-efficient manner.

MP4

MP4 is a video container format. MP4 file format is based on Apple QuickTime file format. MP4 files allow saving multimedia content as several audio and video tracks as well as subtitles, 2D and 3D graphics. This content may be replayed locally with a dedicated software or streamed via a network. (Source: Wikipedia 07.02.2020)

PGP

Encryption of files with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

RoD

Record on demand

RSA

RSA is one of the first public-key cryptosystems and is widely used for secure data transmission. In such a cryptosystem, the encryption key is public and it is different from the decryption key which is kept secret (private). In RSA, this asymmetry is based on the practical difficulty of the factorization of the product of two large prime numbers, the "factoring problem". [1] A user of RSA creates and then publishes a public key based on two large prime numbers, along with an auxiliary value. The prime numbers must be kept secret. Anyone can use the public key to encrypt a message, but with currently published methods, and if the public key is large enough, only someone with knowledge of the prime numbers can decode the message feasibly. (Source: Wikipedia 24th April 2018)

SFTP

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) has been created for Secure Shell (SSH) as an alternative to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allowing encryption.

TTL

Time to live is the retention period indicating for how long a recording is supposed to be held available in the system.

UPN

User Principal Names (source 2023-03-13: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/active-directory/hybrid/plan-connect-userprincipalname#upn-in-azure-ad)

URL

A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL, also known as web address, is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource. (Source: Wikipedia 2nd August 2023)

WAVE

WAVE file format is a container format to digitally save audio data and is based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) defined by Microsoft for Windows. (Source: Wikipedia 23rd February 2021)

WMV

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Media framework. (Source: Wikipedia 16.11.2021 Windows_Media_Video) Microsoft: File types supported by Windows Media Player, see In-detail information on supported file types. (Source: Microsoft 16.11.2021 https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/topic/von-windows-media-player-unterst%C3%BCtzte-dateitypen-32d9998e-dc8f-af54-7ba1-e996f74375d9)

XLSX

XLSX stands for Excel Spreadsheet (XML). XLSX is a file format used by Microsoft Excel to save table calculations. It is based on Open XML format using a combination of XML and ZIP compression. Files with the extension .xlsx are compatible with most current table calculation programs.