Let’s face it—there are quite a bit 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 preserve studying to peruse the phrases listed underneath 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 information about IP addresses which are accessible via its community and declares that information throughout different networks utilizing standardized BGP routing tables.
Autonomous System Quantity (ASN)
A singular id quantity {that a} community should have in an effort to seem within the world routing tables.
Common Visitors
The sum of all 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. May additionally 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 Charge
The quantity of capability transmitted by a single wavelength.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
A standardized gateway protocol that exchanges routing info amongst autonomous techniques on the web.
Channel
Transmission path for a telecommunications sign.
Colocation
The lease of area to deal with transmission gear on the similar bodily location of a provider or ISP.
Compound Annual Development Charge (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 akin to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, in addition to content material supply networks and plenty of others.
Cross-connect
A bodily cable interconnecting gear (servers, switches, routers) in an information heart.
And there is extra—however you may should obtain the e-book to learn it.
The State of the Community Report is our annual telecom check-in, knowledgeable by one other yr of information assortment and evaluation from TeleGeography’s bigger analysis portfolio.
Within the report, we extract the foremost world bandwidth headlines, take a snapshot of the worldwide web, peruse the newest in information facilities, test in on the cloud, and end with an replace from the voice market.
