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911
911 Dashboard
911 Number Provisioning
A
Account Notifications
All-IP Voice Network
Application Program Interface (API)
Application-to-Person (A2P)
Appointment Reminders
Area Code Emergency Call Routing
Automatic Location Identification (ALI)
Automatic Location Identification (ALI) Database
Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
B
Bandwidth APIs
Bandwidth Extensible Markup Language (BXML)
Bandwidth Phone Numbers Dashboard
Bandwidth Voice & Messaging Dashboard
Billing Telephone Number/Account Telephone Number (BTN/ATN)
Bulk SMS
C
Call Masking
Call Recording
Call Routing
Call Screening
Call Tracking
Caller ID Lookup/Caller Name Lookup
Caller Name (CNAM)
Carrier Identification Code (CIC)
Cloud Call Center
Cloud Communication Platform
Coder-Decoder (Codec)
Communications API
Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS)
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
Coordinate Based 911 Routing
Customer Service Record (CSR)
D
Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS)
DID
Digital Signal 3 (DS3)
Directory Assistance
Disputed Porting
DLR SMS
DTMF
Dynamic Location Routing
Dynamic Number Insertion (DNI)
E
E.164
Enhanced 911 (E911)
Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) Alerts
EVS 911 Call Routing
F
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
FOC
G
Group Messaging
GSM-7
H
Hosted SMS
HTTP Voice
I
ILEC
Inbound Calling
Interconnection Agreement (ICA)
International Messaging
IVR
J
Jitter
L
LATA
Latency
Least Cost Routing (LCR)
LERG
Letter of Authorization (LOA)
LIDB
Live Chat
Local Exchange Carrier (LEC)
Local Number Portability (LNP)
Local Routing Number (LRN)
Location/SIP Peer
Long Code
LSR
M
Mean Opinion Score (MOS)
Message Callback
Messaging Application Programming Interface (API)
MM4
MMS
MMSC
Mobile Originated (MO) Message
Mobile Terminated (MT) Message
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) API
Multipart Messages
N
Network Operations Center (NOC)
New Number Ordering
Next Generation 911 (NG 911)
NPA
NPAC
Number Management
Number Orders
Number Portability
O
Omni-Channel
Origination / Inbound Calling
Over-the-Top (OTT)
P
Packet Loss
Person-to-Person (P2P)
Phone Call API / Voice Calling API
Phone Number
Phone Tree
PIDF-LO
PON
Post Dial Delay (PDD)
Primary Rate Interface (PRI)
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
Programmable Messaging
Programmable Voice
PSAP
PSTN
R
Rate Center
Real-Time Communication
RespOrg
REST APIs
RLEC
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Service Record (SRV Record)
Session Border Controller (SBC)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Short Code
Short Message Service (SMS)
SIP Phone
SIP Trunk
SMPP
SMS API
SMSC
Snapback
Snowshoeing
Soft Switch
Software Development Kit (SDK)
SPAM
Standard Address Routing
STIR/SHAKEN
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TCPA
Telephone Number (TN)
Termination/Outbound Calling
Text-to-Speech (TTS)
Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)
Toll-Free Calling
Toll-Free SMS
U
Underlying Carrier (ULC)
Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
V
Virtual Phone Number
Voice Callback
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
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What is RCS Messaging?
