Glossary of Terms

Understand basic Public Safety definitions and terms.

PST

Definition:

Public Safety Telecommunicator (formerly known as a TC). This is the person who answers 9-1-1 calls (Call Taker), or dispatches the patrolman (Dispatcher). In smaller ECCs, a Public Safety Telecommunicator is likely to handle both call taking and dispatching from the same workstation. In larger ECCs, the call taking and dispatching staff may be assigned to different PSTs working at different workstations.

Traceroute

Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool used to track the pathway taken by a packet on an IP network from source to destination in real time,...

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Loopback

A type of diagnostic test in which a transmitted signal is returned to the transmitting device and then compared to the original signal.

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ANSIRULE TABLE

For CDMA or TDMA calls, this table on the FMCC defines the parameter that will trigger the FMCC to behave in a test scenario rather than how it would...

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End User

The 9‐1‐1 caller. Customers who use (rather than provide) telecommunications services; those who either originate or terminate telecommunications.

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