Telecom Management Glossary

Important definitions and terminologies used in Telecom Management

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A

AAA Server (authentication, authorization, and accounting) in Telecom Management
Access Point in Telecom Management
Access Point Name (APN) in Telecom Management
Access SBCs and Interconnect SBCs in Telecom Management
Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) in Telecom Management
Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) in Telecom Management
Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) in Telecom Management
Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate (AMBR) in Telecom Management
Amazon Web Services in Telecom Management
Anonymous Call Rejection (ACR) in Telecom Management
Ansible in Telecom Management
Answer-Seizure Ratio (ASR) in Telecom Management
Application Acceleration in Telecom Management
Application Delivery Controller (ADC) in Telecom Management
Application Delivery in Telecom Management
Application Delivery Network (ADN) in Telecom Management
Application Deployment in Telecom Management
Application Hosting in Telecom Management
Application Performance Monitoring in Telecom Management
Application Programming Interface (API) in Telecom Management
Application Server in Telecom Management
Application Server Incoming Leg Control Model (AS-ILCM) in Telecom Management
Application Server Outgoing Leg Control Model (AS-OLCM ) in Telecom Management
Artifical Intelligence (AI) in Telecom Management
Asynchronous Communication in Telecom Management
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) in Telecom Management
Attribute Value Pair (AVP) in Telecom Management
Audio Conferencing in Telecom Management
Authentication Token (ATUN) in Telecom Management
Auto Attendant (AA) in Telecom Management
Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) in Telecom Management
Automatic Number Identification (ANI) in Telecom Management
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in Telecom Management
Automation Platform in Telecom Management
Average Call Duration in Telecom Management

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B

B Channel in Telecom Management
Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA) in Telecom Management
Backhaul in Telecom Management
Bandwidth in Telecom Management
Base Station in Telecom Management
Basic Call State Model (BCSM) in Telecom Management
Basic Rate ISDN (BRI) in Telecom Management
Bearer Independent Call Control (BICC) in Telecom Management
Bearer Protocol in Telecom Management
Bearer Service (BS) in Telecom Management
Big Data in Telecom Management
Billing in Telecom Management
Bit Rate in Telecom Management
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in Telecom Management
Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF) in Telecom Management
Broadband in Telecom Management
Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) in Telecom Management
Business Support Systems (BSS) in Telecom Management

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C

Cable Entrance Facility in Telecom Management
Cache Poisoning in Telecom Management
Call Center in Telecom Management
Call Control in Telecom Management
Call Detail Records in Telecom Management
Call Forwarding in Telecom Management
Call Processing Language (CPL) in Telecom Management
Call Routing in Telecom Management
Call Session Control Function (CSCF) in Telecom Management
CAMEL Application Part (CAP) in Telecom Management
CAMEL Service Environment (CSE) in Telecom Management
Capacity Planning in Telecom Management
Carrier Access Billing System (CABS) in Telecom Management
Carrier Ethernet in Telecom Management
Carrier in Telecom Management
Cause Code Mappings in Telecom Management
Cellular Network in Telecom Management
Central Automatic Message Accounting (CAMA) in Telecom Management
Central Office (CO) in Telecom Management
Centralized Message Distribution System (CMDS) in Telecom Management
Centrex (Central Office Exchange Service) in Telecom Management
Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit (CSU-DSU) in Telecom Management
Channel-Associated Signaling (CAS) in Telecom Management
Charging Data Record (CDR) in Telecom Management
Circuit Switched in Telecom Management
Circuit Switching in Telecom Management
Class 4 Switch in Telecom Management
Clear Channel Signaling (CLEAR) in Telecom Management
Cloud Communications in Telecom Management
Cloud Computing Architecture in Telecom Management
Cloud Computing in Telecom Management
Cloud Computing Security in Telecom Management
Cloud Computing Services in Telecom Management
Cloud Service in Telecom Management
Co-location in Telecom Management
Committed Information Rate (CIR) in Telecom Management
Common Carrier in Telecom Management
Common Channel Signaling (CCS) in Telecom Management
Competitive Access Provider (CAP) in Telecom Management
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in Telecom Management
Congestion Control in Telecom Management
Connected Home in Telecom Management
Connectivity in Telecom Management
Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) in Telecom Management
Content Delivery Network (CDN) in Telecom Management
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) in Telecom Management
Control Plane in Telecom Management
Conventional Signaling (CS) in Telecom Management
Conversational User Interface in Telecom Management
Core Network (CN) in Telecom Management
Custom Local Area Signaling Services (CLASS) in Telecom Management
Customer Access Line Charge (CALC) in Telecom Management
Customer Billing Services System (CBSS) in Telecom Management
Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) in Telecom Management
Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) in Telecom Management
Customized Application Mobile Enhanced Logic in Telecom Management
Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) in Telecom Management

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D

D Channel (Delta Channel) in Telecom Management
Data Center in Telecom Management
Data Communication Equipment in Telecom Management
Data Roaming in Telecom Management
Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) in Telecom Management
Data Traffic in Telecom Management
Denial of Service & Distributed Denial of Service (DoS & DDoS) in Telecom Management
Destination Point Code (DPC) in Telecom Management
Development and Operations (DevOps) in Telecom Management
Device Management in Telecom Management
Diameter (Protocol) in Telecom Management
Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) in Telecom Management
Diameter Routing Agent in Telecom Management
Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) in Telecom Management
Digital Cross-Connect System (DCS) in Telecom Management
Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) in Telecom Management
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) in Telecom Management
Digital Transformation in Telecom Management
Direct Inward Dialing/Direct Outward Dialing (DID/DOD) in Telecom Management
Disk Operating System (DOS) in Telecom Management
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) in Telecom Management
Domain Name System (DNS) in Telecom Management
Download Manager in Telecom Management
Dual Homing in Telecom Management
Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) in Telecom Management
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) in Telecom Management

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E

E-UTRAN in Telecom Management
E.164 Number Mapping (ENUM) in Telecom Management
EC2 in Telecom Management
Echo Return Loss (ERL) in Telecom Management
Elastic Compute Cloud in Telecom Management
Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) in Telecom Management
Enterprise Session Border Controller (eSBC) in Telecom Management
Ethernet in Telecom Management
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in Telecom Management
Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in Telecom Management
Evolved Packet System (EPS) in Telecom Management
Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in Telecom Management
Extended Superframe (ESF) in Telecom Management
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) in Telecom Management
Extensible Markup Language (XML) in Telecom Management
Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol (EGP) in Telecom Management

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F

Fault Management in Telecom Management
FAX in Telecom Management
Fax Over IP (FoIP) in Telecom Management
Fax Server in Telecom Management
Femtocell in Telecom Management
Fiber Optic Communications in Telecom Management
Fiber Optic in Telecom Management
Fiber to the X (FttX) in Telecom Management
Firewall in Telecom Management
Fixed Wireless in Telecom Management
Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) in Telecom Management
Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) in Telecom Management
Front End Optimization (FEO) in Telecom Management

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G

Gateway in Telecom Management
Gateway Mobile Switching Center (GMSC) in Telecom Management
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in Telecom Management
Generic User Profile (GUP) in Telecom Management
Geolocation in Telecom Management
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in Telecom Management
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) in Telecom Management
GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) in Telecom Management
Ground Start (GS) Signaling in Telecom Management

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H

H.323 in Telecom Management
Hacktivism in Telecom Management
Half-Duplex (HDX) in Telecom Management
HD Voice in Telecom Management
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) in Telecom Management
High Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) in Telecom Management
High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) in Telecom Management
High-Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL) in Telecom Management
Home Location Register (HLR) in Telecom Management
Home Public Land Mobile Network (HPLMN) in Telecom Management
Home Public Mobile Network (HPMN) in Telecom Management
Home Subscriber Server (HSS) in Telecom Management
Hotspot in Telecom Management
Hybrid Cloud in Telecom Management
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in Telecom Management

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I

IM Services Identity Module (ISIM) in Telecom Management
IMS Authentication and Key Agreement (IMS-AKA) in Telecom Management
IMS Charging ID in Telecom Management
IMS Communication Service Identifier (ICSI) in Telecom Management
IMS Credentials in Telecom Management
Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) in Telecom Management
Independent Telephone Company in Telecom Management
Information Security in Telecom Management
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in Telecom Management
Instant Messaging (IM) in Telecom Management
Integrated Circuit Card Identifier (ICCID) in Telecom Management
Integrated Digital Loop Carrier (IDLC) in Telecom Management
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) in Telecom Management
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) in Telecom Management
Intelligent Network (IN) in Telecom Management
Intelligent Video Analytics in Telecom Management
Inter Operator Identifier (IOI) in Telecom Management
Inter-IMS Network to Network Interface (II-NNI) in Telecom Management
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) in Telecom Management
Interconnect in Telecom Management
Interconnect Session Border Controller (I-SBC) in Telecom Management
Interconnection Border Control Function (IBCF) in Telecom Management
Interconnection Facility in Telecom Management
Interconnection Point (POI) in Telecom Management
Interexchange Carrier (IXC) in Telecom Management
International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) in Telecom Management
International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) in Telecom Management
International Switching Center (ISC) in Telecom Management
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Telecom Management
Internet of Things (IoT) in Telecom Management
Internet Protocol (IP) in Telecom Management
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in Telecom Management
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPV4) in Telecom Management
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPV6) in Telecom Management
Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Telecom Management
Interrogating Call Session Control Function (I-CSCF) in Telecom Management
Interworking Function (IWF) in Telecom Management
Inverse Multiplexing (IMUX) in Telecom Management
IP Address in Telecom Management
IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) in Telecom Management
IP Multimedia Service Control (ISC-IMSC) in Telecom Management
IP Multimedia Services Identity Module (ISIM) in Telecom Management
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in Telecom Management
IP Packet Exchange (IPX) in Telecom Management
IP Security (IPSec) in Telecom Management
IP Transport Subsystem (ITS) in Telecom Management
IPTV in Telecom Management
ISDN User Part (ISUP) in Telecom Management

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J

Java in Telecom Management
Java Telephony Application Programming Interface (JTAPI) in Telecom Management
JavaScript in Telecom Management
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in Telecom Management

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K

Key Telephone System (KTS) in Telecom Management
Kilobits per second (Kbps or Kbs) in Telecom Management
KnowBot in Telecom Management
Kubernetes (K8s) in Telecom Management

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L

Latency in Telecom Management
Load Balancer (LB) in Telecom Management
Load Balancing in Telecom Management
Local Access and Transport Area (LATA) in Telecom Management
Local Area Network (LAN) in Telecom Management
Local Breakout (LBO) in Telecom Management
Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) in Telecom Management
Local Loop in Telecom Management
Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Telecom Management
Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in Telecom Management

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M

Machine Learning in Telecom Management
Machine to Machine (M2M) in Telecom Management
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) in Telecom Management
Managed Services in Telecom Management
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) in Telecom Management
Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF) in Telecom Management
Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) in Telecom Management
Media Gateway in Telecom Management
Media Resource Broker (MRB) in Telecom Management
Media Server in Telecom Management
Media Streaming in Telecom Management
Medium Access Control (MAC) in Telecom Management
Mobile Application Part (MAP) in Telecom Management
Mobile Applications in Telecom Management
Mobile Broadband in Telecom Management
Mobile Cloud Computing in Telecom Management
Mobile Country Code (MCC) in Telecom Management
Mobile Device Management (MDM) in Telecom Management
Mobile Equipment (ME) in Telecom Management
Mobile Network (MN) in Telecom Management
Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in Telecom Management
Mobile Originating (MO) in Telecom Management
Mobile Station (MS) in Telecom Management
Mobile Station International ISDN Number in Telecom Management
Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) in Telecom Management
Mobile Terminating in Telecom Management
Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in Telecom Management
MQTT Protocol in Telecom Management
Mulitplexer (MUX) in Telecom Management
Multi-Line Hunting Group (MLHG) in Telecom Management
Multicast in Telecom Management
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) in Telecom Management
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) in Telecom Management
Multimedia Resource Function (MRF) in Telecom Management
Multimedia Resource Function Controller (MRFC) in Telecom Management
Multimedia Resource Function Processor (MRFP) in Telecom Management
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) in Telecom Management
Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) in Telecom Management

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N

Network Access Identifier (NAI) in Telecom Management
Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) in Telecom Management
Network Address Translation (NAT) in Telecom Management
Network Architecture in Telecom Management
Network Attached Storage (NAS) in Telecom Management
Network Effectiveness Ratio (NER) in Telecom Management
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in Telecom Management
Network in Telecom Management
Network Management in Telecom Management
Network Operations Center (NOC) in Telecom Management
Network Operators in Telecom Management
Network Optimization in Telecom Management
Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) in Telecom Management
Network Protocol in Telecom Management
Network Security in Telecom Management
Network to Network Interface (NNI) in Telecom Management
Network Virtualization in Telecom Management
Next Generation Networks (NGN) in Telecom Management
Next Unit of Computing (NUC) in Telecom Management
Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) in Telecom Management
Non-Access Stratum (NAS) in Telecom Management
NoSQL in Telecom Management
Number Portability (NP) in Telecom Management

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O

On-Hook in Telecom Management
Online Charging System (OCS) in Telecom Management
Online Video Platform (OVP) in Telecom Management
Open Compute Project (OCP) in Telecom Management
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) in Telecom Management
Open Network Architecture (ONA) in Telecom Management
Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in Telecom Management
Open Services Architecture (OSA) in Telecom Management
OpenStack in Telecom Management
Operations Support Systems (OSS) in Telecom Management
Optical Network in Telecom Management
Orchestration Platform in Telecom Management
Order and Service Management (OSM) in Telecom Management
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in Telecom Management
Outside Plant in Telecom Management
Over-The-Top (OTT) in Telecom Management

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P

Packet Data Network (PDN) in Telecom Management
Packet Data Protocol (PDP) in Telecom Management
Packet Switched/Packet Switching (PS) in Telecom Management
Packet Switching in Telecom Management
Packet Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (P-TMSI) in Telecom Management
Platform as a Service (PaaS) in Telecom Management
Point of Presence (PoP) in Telecom Management
Policy and Charging Control (PCC) in Telecom Management
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) in Telecom Management
Private Branch Exchange (PBX) in Telecom Management
Private Cloud in Telecom Management
Private Mobile Network (PMN) in Telecom Management
Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) in Telecom Management
Public Cloud in Telecom Management
Public Globally Routable User Agent URI (P-GRUU) in Telecom Management
Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) in Telecom Management
Public Service Identity (PSI) in Telecom Management
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in Telecom Management

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Q

QoS Class Identifier (QCI) in Telecom Management
Quality of Service (QoS) in Telecom Management

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R

Radio Access Network (RAN) in Telecom Management
Radio Access Technology (RAT) in Telecom Management
Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Telecom Management
Real-Time Communications (RTC) in Telecom Management
Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) in Telecom Management
Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP/RTCP) in Telecom Management
Redundancy in Telecom Management
Remote Access in Telecom Management
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) in Telecom Management
Remote Monitoring in Telecom Management
Request for Comment (RFC) in Telecom Management
Ring-Down in Telecom Management
Ringtone in Telecom Management
Roaming in Telecom Management
Robbed Bit Signaling (In-band Signaling) in Telecom Management
Router in Telecom Management
Routing in Telecom Management

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S

Secondary Directory Number (SDN) in Telecom Management
Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) in Telecom Management
Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) in Telecom Management
Self Optimizing Network (SON) in Telecom Management
Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM) in Telecom Management
Service Control Point (SCP) in Telecom Management
Service Platform Trigger Points (STP) in Telecom Management
Service Switching Function (SSF) in Telecom Management
Service Switching Point (SSP) in Telecom Management
Session Border Controller (SBC) in Telecom Management
Session Description Protocol (SDP) in Telecom Management
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in Telecom Management
Session Initiation Protocol with encapsulated ISUP (SIP-I) in Telecom Management
Short Message Service (SMS) in Telecom Management
Short Range Wireless in Telecom Management
Signal Transfer Points (STP) in Telecom Management
Signal Transport (SIGTRAN) in Telecom Management
Signal Unit (SU) in Telecom Management
Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP) in Telecom Management
Signaling Gateway in Telecom Management
Signaling Protocol in Telecom Management
Signaling System 7 (SS7) in Telecom Management
SIP Application Server in Telecom Management
SIP Client in Telecom Management
SIP Trunk in Telecom Management
Smart Home in Telecom Management
Softswitch in Telecom Management
Software as a Service (SaaS) in Telecom Management
Software Defined Networking (SD-WAN) in Telecom Management
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in Telecom Management
Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) in Telecom Management
SQL Injection in Telecom Management
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) in Telecom Management
Subcarrier in Telecom Management
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) in Telecom Management
Subscriber Management in Telecom Management
Switched Network in Telecom Management
Synchronous Communication in Telecom Management
System Architecture Evolution (SAE) in Telecom Management
System Integration in Telecom Management