Why does this matter operationally?
Cost Efficiency
The discipline of delivering required connectivity performance at sustainable operational and capital cost. Cost efficiency in connectivity involves trade-offs between link capacity, redundancy, technology choice, and managed service dependency.
197 terms
High Availability
High Availability is a design approach that aims to keep a system or service accessible and operational with minimal downtime through redundancy and failover patterns.
Operations
Historian Database
Historian Database is a time-series database or storage system used to record process values, alarms, events, and operational history over time.
Software
Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud is a cloud model that combines private and public cloud environments so workloads, data, or services can span both. It blends dedicated and shared cloud resources through networking,…
Service Model
In-Band Management
In-Band Management is administrative access to a system over the same network path that also carries production traffic.
Operations
Infrastructure As A Service
Infrastructure As A Service is a cloud model that delivers virtualized infrastructure resources on demand. It provides compute, storage, and networking without requiring the consumer to manage the underlying hardware.
Service Model
Integrated Access and Backhaul
A 3GPP Release 16 capability allowing a 5G base station to wirelessly relay its own backhaul traffic to a parent node using the same NR air interface and spectrum it…
Concept/Framework
Intent Based Networking
Intent Based Networking is a network management approach that translates declared business or operational intent into network configuration and policy. It automates network behavior from stated goals.
Software
Internet Exchange
A shared physical facility where multiple networks interconnect to exchange traffic directly with each other, providing common switching infrastructure that lets many participants establish connectivity in one location rather than…
Concept/Framework
IoT Device Management
The operational practices and platform capabilities for provisioning, configuring, updating, monitoring, and decommissioning connected devices across a fleet, encompassing identity assignment, firmware update orchestration, health and status monitoring, and remote…
Operations
IoT Gateway
A hardware device positioned between constrained edge devices and backend network infrastructure, aggregating device traffic and translating between the device-facing protocol — LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Modbus, and similar — and the…
Hardware