Let’s face it—there are loads of definitions to memorize within the telecom area. And if you happen to’ve ever racked your mind for what “MVNO” stands for on a Monday morning, you are not alone.
This is a scorching tip: there is a secret Telecom Glossary tucked away on the finish of our free 2022 State of the Community Report.
Put it aside to your telephone. Print it out and show it in your fridge. Or simply maintain studying to peruse the phrases listed beneath A, B, and C.
Addressable Wholesale Capability
The quantity of capability that wholesale operators are in a position to promote within the type of managed bandwidth providers.
Autonomous System (AS)
Organizes knowledge about IP addresses which can be accessible by means of its community and broadcasts that knowledge throughout different networks utilizing standardized BGP routing tables.
Autonomous System Quantity (ASN)
A novel id quantity {that a} community should have with a purpose to seem within the international routing tables.
Common Visitors
The sum of all site visitors throughout a hyperlink in a single month, divided by the variety of seconds within the month.
Bandwidth
A measure of information-carrying capability on a communications channel. Might also be known as “capability.”
Bandwidth Demand
See Used bandwidth.
Bit
A binary unit of knowledge that may have both of two values, 0 or 1.
Bit Price
The quantity of capability transmitted by a single wavelength.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
A standardized gateway protocol that exchanges routing data amongst autonomous techniques on the web.
Channel
Transmission path for a telecommunications sign.
Colocation
The lease of area to deal with transmission tools on the identical bodily location of a service or ISP.
Compound Annual Development Price (CAGR)
This sometimes refers back to the change in worth over a given time frame.
Content material Suppliers
One of many 4 parts of used bandwidth. Consists of networks deployed by operators similar to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, in addition to content material supply networks and plenty of others.
Cross-connect
A bodily cable interconnecting tools (servers, switches, routers) in an information heart.
And there is extra—however you may need to obtain the e-book to learn it.
The State of the Community Report is our annual telecom check-in, knowledgeable by one other 12 months of information assortment and evaluation from TeleGeography’s bigger analysis portfolio.
Within the report, we extract the most important international bandwidth headlines, take a snapshot of the worldwide web, peruse the newest in knowledge facilities, examine in on the cloud, and end with an replace from the voice market.
