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

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

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?