ISP & telecom terms
158 glossary entries tagged ISP & telecom, listed alphabetically.
- "5 GHz Wi-Fi is always better"
- "more bandwidth means a faster connection"
- 5G
- ADSL
- aerial vs. underground plant
- Amplification and reflection attacks
- ANATEL
- ARC (Authenticated Received Chain)
- ARPANET
- AS (autonomous system)autonomous system
- ASNautonomous system number
- ATMAsynchronous Transfer Mode
- attenuation
- backhaul
- BCP 38 (source address validation)
- bufferbloat
- BYOIP
- CAA record
- Cable landing station
- Cable repair ship
- Carlos Afonso and Alternex
- Carrier
- carrier hotel
- Carterfone
- CDN
- CERT.br and the CGI.br system
- CGI.br
- CGNAT
- circuit switching
- clean pipe
- CMTS
- cold-potato vs. hot-potato routing
- Computer Inquiry
- CPE
- dark fiber
- Data PBX
- default-free zone
- demarcation point
- Demi Getschko
- DHCP option 82
- DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance)
- DOCSIS
- Donald Davies
- DPI (Deep Packet Inspection)
- drop cable
- DSLAM
- dual stack
- DVMRPDistance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
- DWDMDense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- E1E1 (2.048 Mb/s, 32 timeslots)
- edge computing
- EGPExterior Gateway Protocol (the class, and the historical protocol)
- EMBRATEL
- eyeball network
- FAPESP
- five nines
- Frame RelayFrame Relay (packet-switched WAN)
- FTTH
- full table
- fusion splice
- GPON
- GTS / GTERGTS and GTER - NIC.br's network security and network engineering working groups
- Guglielmo Marconi
- HFC
- IGPInterior Gateway Protocol
- Infovia Brasília
- internet exchangeIX
- Internet shutdown
- IP transit
- IPoE
- ISPinternet service provider
- IXP
- jitter
- Joybubbles (Joe Engressia)
- LACNICLatin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry - and the region's operator meetings
- LANELAN Emulation (over ATM)
- last mile
- Legion of Doom (LOD)
- LEO constellation
- Liane Tarouco
- lit fiber
- looking glass
- LoRa
- LTELong Term Evolution
- maintenance window
- Masters of Deception (MOD)
- MDF / IDF
- meet-me room
- mesh Wi-Fi
- middle mile
- MPLS
- MTA-STS (and DANE for mail)
- MTTR
- MWCMobile World Congress - the GSMA's Barcelona telecom mega-show
- NANOGNorth American Network Operators' Group - the operators' town hall since 1994
- NewEdge
- NFV
- NIC.br
- node split
- NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
- number porting
- OC levels (OC-3 to OC-768)SONET Optical Carrier levels and their SDH STM equivalents
- OLT
- ONT
- optical power budget
- optical splitter
- OTDR
- oversubscription
- packet switching
- Pager
- patch panel
- Paul Baran
- peering
- Phiber Optik (Mark Abene)
- Phreaking
- PIMProtocol Independent Multicast
- pole attachment
- PONPassive Optical Network
- PoP
- Port-block allocation (deterministic NAT)
- PoSPacket over SONET/SDH
- POTS
- PPPoE
- provisioning
- RADIUS
- remote hands
- RMA
- RNP (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa)
- Route leak
- Shared address space (100.64.0.0/10)
- SIMSubscriber Identity Module
- Single-mode fiberSingle-mode optical fiber (OS1/OS2)
- SISCOMIS (Sistema de Comunicações Militares por Satélite)
- SLA
- SNR
- SONETSynchronous Optical Network (SDH internationally)
- Source-port logging
- spectrum
- SS7
- Statistical multiplexer
- Submarine cable
- Susan Headley (Susy Thunder)
- T1T1 / DS1 (1.544 Mb/s, 24 channels)
- Tadao Takahashi
- TELEBRÁS
- TELESP
- the Great Split (IRC, 1996)
- Throttling (as censorship)
- TR-069
- truck roll
- upstream / downstream
- Usenet
- UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy)
- walled garden
- War dialing
- Wi-Fi site survey
- X.21ITU-T X.21 (circuit-switched serial interface)
- X.25ITU-T X.25 (packet-switched WAN)