Why does this matter operationally?
Service Assurance
The operational discipline of guaranteeing that connectivity services meet defined performance levels, availability targets, and recovery time objectives. Service assurance combines monitoring, SLA management, and proactive intervention to maintain the reliability that industrial operations depend on.
406 terms
MPLS
MPLS is a packet-forwarding and traffic-engineering technology that directs network traffic using labels rather than traditional IP-only routing decisions.
Protocol
Multilateration
A surveillance technique that determines an aircraft's position by measuring the time difference of arrival of its Mode S transponder replies at multiple ground receiver stations, calculating position from those…
Concept/Framework
Multipath
Multipath is a radio propagation phenomenon in which transmitted energy arrives at the receiver over multiple reflected, refracted, or scattered paths. The resulting interference can change the observed signal quality.
Concept/Framework
Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing is the branch of artificial intelligence concerned with processing human language data — text or speech — so that software can classify it, extract meaning from it,…
Concept/Framework
Navigational Warning Dissemination
Navigational Warning Dissemination is the distribution of Maritime safety warnings and notices to vessels and operators. It provides navigational hazard information to inform operational decision-making and route adjustments.
Service Model
NAVTEX
A GMDSS subsystem that automatically broadcasts and receives navigational, meteorological, and maritime safety warnings over a dedicated medium-frequency radio channel, with receiving equipment aboard vessels automatically printing or displaying relevant…
Protocol
Neighbor Exchange
Neighbor exchange is the protocol process by which adjacent routing peers advertise, learn, and maintain reachability information. It is the control-plane dialogue that supports path selection and routing convergence.
Protocol
Network Address Translation
Network Address Translation is the translation of one address space into another, usually to allow private addresses to communicate with public networks. It rewrites address information at a boundary.
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 Connectivity
Network connectivity is the condition in which networked systems can establish and maintain communication paths.
Concept/Framework