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  • API
    An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software. API is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components and makes it easier to develop a computer program by providing all the building blocks.
  • Broadband Technology
    Term Definition of Broadband Technology Broadband is a broad bandwidth data transmission having the capacity to concurrently transmit numerous signals as well as website traffic types. This technology is either coax , fiber optics, radio transmission or twisted pair. Due to the fact that a large band of frequencies offered, info is multiplexed in addition […]
  • BSS
    Business support systems (BSS) are the components that a teleco service provider (or telco) uses to run its business operations. Together with operations support systems (OSS), they are used to support various end-to-end teleco services. BSS and OSS have their own data and service responsibilities. The two systems together are often abbreviated OSS/BSS, BSS/OSS or simply B/OSS.
  • CMDB
    A configuration management database (CMDB) is a repository that acts as a data warehouse for information technology (IT) installations. It holds data relating to a collection of IT assets (commonly referred to as configuration items (CI)), as well as to descriptive relationships between such assets.
  • CORD
    Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) design. CORD is an open community project targeting service providers that combines new-age technologies including software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) with cloud-enabled agility, commodity servers, white-box switches, disaggregated access technologies and open source software
  • Dark Fiber
    Dark fiber – refers to unused fiber-optic cable. Often times companies lay more lines than what’s needed in order to curb costs of having to do it again and again. The dark strands can be leased to individuals or other companies who want to establish optical connections among their own locations.
  • Enhanced Telecom Operations Map – eTOM
    Term definition of the Enhanced Telecom Operations Map eTOM is defined as Enhanced Telecom Operations Map. The business process structure is an operating design framework for telecommunications companies in the telecom sector. This version explains the basic business service operations of service companies, but also specifies key components and how they need to be engaged. This […]
  • ETSI
    ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and Internet technologies. Our standards enable the technologies on which business and society rely. For example, our standards for GSM™, DECT™, Smart Cards and electronic signatures have helped to revolutionize modern life all over the world.
  • IaaS
    Information as a Service (IaaS) is a proven approach to efficient service provision. Thinking about information and data as separate from the processes that use them is one key element. Information is often delivered through SOA infrastructure.
  • Modularity
    Modularity – is one measure of the structure of networks or graphs. It was designed to measure the strength of division of a network into modules (also called groups, clusters or communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the nodes within modules but sparse connections between nodes in different modules.
  • MPLS
    Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a type of data-carrying technique for high-performance telecommunications networks. MPLS directs data from one network node to the next based on short path labels rather than long network addresses, avoiding complex lookups in a routing table.
  • Network Operations Center (NOC)
    What is a Network Operations Center, NOC? A network operations center (NOC) is a location that administrators monitor, manage and sustain a telecommunications network. Big businesses with massive networks in addition to huge network support providers usually have a network operations center. It consists of an area containing images of the networks which are getting […]
  • Open Source Software
    The phrase “open source” refers to anything individuals can modify and share because its layout is publicly available. Historical Facts About Open Source Software Open source software is computer software with source code that anybody can examine, modify, and improve. In the infancy of computers, programmers and developers both used computer applications to understand from […]
  • Operational Support System
    What is an Operational Support System? The definition of an operational support system is a group of applications which support communications services suppliers keep track of, manage, evaluate and control a phone or pc network. As the standard voice phone systems combines with packet-oriented net traffic including VoIP, broadband applications like tele-conferencing and DSL, sophisticated […]
  • Operational Support Systems (OSS) Fulfillment?
    This short article delves in to the functions of the operational support systems and business support systems in today’s ever changing marketplace. Both play an important role in the telecommunications industry’s evolution as well as in the role of technology. What are Operational Support Systems? Operational support systems are software programs and sometimes computer hardware […]
  • PaaS
    Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.
  • RFID
    Term definition of RFID RFID refers to Radio-Frequency Identification. The phrase is attributed to refers to minute electronic devices which are made up of miniature chip and a receiver. The chip normally is able to carry 2k bytes or less of information and data The Radio-Frequency Identification device accomplishes the identical objective as either the […]
  • SaaS
    Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet. SaaS is one of three main categories of computing, alongside infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a  service (PaaS).
  • Service Fulfillment
    Visionael uses  data about services stored in the Inventory, which  triggers a dynamic fulfillment process as part of the OSS Suite.
  • SNMP
    Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol for network management. It is used for collecting information from, and configuring, network devices, such as servers, printers, hubs, switches, and routers on an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
  • WDM
    In fiber-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using different wavelengths (i.e., colors) of laser light.