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
MQTT
A lightweight, broker-mediated publish-subscribe messaging protocol running over TCP/IP, designed to minimize message overhead and support constrained devices and unreliable or low-bandwidth network conditions, commonly used for IoT telemetry and…
Protocol
Multi Cloud
Multi Cloud is the use of services from more than one cloud provider within a single organization or system strategy. It introduces provider diversity and integration needs.
Service Model
Multicast
Multicast is a communication method that delivers the same data to a selected group of receivers instead of to one receiver or everyone. It reduces duplicate transmission through network-based replication…
Protocol
NB-IoT
A 3GPP-standardized cellular radio access technology optimized for low-power, low-data-rate, wide-area IoT connectivity, operating within licensed cellular spectrum and typically deployable via a software upgrade to existing LTE or 5G…
Protocol
Network Automation
The use of software to execute network configuration, provisioning, and remediation tasks without manual, step-by-step human execution, replacing repetitive manual network operations work with programmatic, repeatable processes.
Concept/Framework
Network Densification
Network Densification is the increase in the number of network nodes, access points, or base stations in a given area to improve capacity or coverage.
Operations
Network Function Virtualization
Network Function Virtualization is the implementation of network functions in software on general-purpose compute rather than dedicated purpose-built appliances.
Software
Network Planning
Network planning is the discipline of assessing current and future requirements, then translating them into a network design, capacity model, and implementation roadmap. It determines what must be built, upgraded,…
Operations
Network Telemetry
Network Telemetry is the collection and export of operational data from network devices and services for monitoring and analysis.
Operations
Observability
Observability is the ability to infer the internal state of a system from its external outputs such as logs, metrics, and traces.
Software