Glossary

Find definitions for Bandwidth related telecom terminology.

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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 Extensible Markup Language (BXML)

Bandwidth Phone Numbers Dashboard

Bandwidth Voice & Messaging Dashboard

Billing Telephone Number/Account Telephone Number (BTN/ATN)

Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC)

C

Caller ID Lookup/Caller Name Lookup

Caller Name (CNAM)

Carrier Identification Code (CIC)

Cloud Call Center

Cloud Communication Platform

Coder-Decoder (Codec)

Communication 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)

Digital Signal 3 (DS3)

Directory Assistance

Disputed Porting

Dynamic Location Routing

Dynamic Number Insertion (DNI)

E

Enhanced 911 (E911)

Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) Alerts

EVS 911 Call Routing

F

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

G

Group Messaging

H

I

Inbound Calling

Interconnection Agreement (ICA)

International Messaging

International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF)

J

L

Least Cost Routing (LCR)

Letter of Authorization (LOA)

Local Calling Area

Local Exchange Carrier (LEC)

Local Number Portability (LNP)

Local Routing Number (LRN)

Location/SIP Peer

M

Master Street Address Guide (MSAG)

Mean Opinion Score (MOS)

Message Callback

Messaging Application Programming Interface (API)

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)

Number Management

Number Portability

Number Verification

O

Origination / Inbound Calling

Over-the-Top (OTT)

P

Person-to-Person (P2P)

Phone Call API / Voice Calling API

Post Dial Delay (PDD)

Primary Rate Interface (PRI)

Private Branch Exchange (PBX)

Programmable Messaging

Programmable SIM Card

Programmable Voice

R

Real-Time Communication

S

Service Record (SRV Record)

Session Border Controller (SBC)

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Short Message Service (SMS)

Software Development Kit (SDK)

Standard Address Routing

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)

T

Telephone Number (TN)

Termination/Outbound Calling

Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)

Toll-Free Calling

U

Underlying Carrier (ULC)

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

V

Virtual Phone Number

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

W

What is STIR/SHAKEN?