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
Port Exhaustion
Port Exhaustion is the condition in which available transport-layer ports or translated port mappings are depleted for new sessions. It prevents additional sessions from being created.
Operations
Power Supply
A power supply is a device or subsystem that converts, regulates, and conditions electrical input to provide the voltage and current required by a load. It may include conversion, filtering,…
Hardware
Precision Time Protocol
PTP is a network synchronization protocol that exchanges timing messages so devices can estimate path delay and correct their local clocks against a reference time source.
Protocol
Predictive Maintenance
Predictive Maintenance is a maintenance approach that uses condition data and analysis to predict when equipment is likely to need service, enabling scheduled intervention before failure occurs.
Operations
Prefix
A prefix is a contiguous block of IP addresses identified by a base address and a prefix length. In routing, it is the unit that systems advertise, aggregate, filter, and…
Concept/Framework
Protocol Translation
Protocol translation is the process of converting communications between protocol families so endpoints that do not natively interoperate can exchange useful data.
Concept/Framework
Public Key Infrastructure
PKI is the set of services, policies, and cryptographic mechanisms that create and manage trusted digital identities using public and private keys and certificates.
Concept/Framework
QOS
QOS is a set of mechanisms used to prioritize and manage network traffic by controlling how bandwidth, delay, and loss are handled for different traffic classes.
Operations
Quality of Experience
The end-user's actual perceived satisfaction with an application or service, shaped by underlying network-level performance metrics such as latency and throughput but not reducible to any single one of them,…
Concept/Framework
Quality Of Service
Quality Of Service is the degree to which a service or network meets defined performance characteristics such as delay, loss, and bandwidth.
Operations