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Glossary<br />
Term Description<br />
LEC<br />
LNP<br />
MBN<br />
MEC SPEC<br />
NDM<br />
NSL<br />
number portability<br />
NXX<br />
OBF<br />
ORB<br />
PFTP<br />
PPP<br />
PUC<br />
RAID<br />
local exchange carrier<br />
A company providing local telecommunications transmission and switching services. Originally this<br />
term referred to ei<strong>the</strong>r a BOC or an ITC such as Verizon West 1 or Alltel. These companies are now<br />
called ILECs to distinguish <strong>the</strong>m from CLECs.<br />
local number portability<br />
Permits both ILECs and CLECs to allow customers to take <strong>the</strong>ir telephone numbers with <strong>the</strong>m when<br />
<strong>the</strong>y exchange carriers in <strong>the</strong> same geographical region.<br />
main billing number<br />
Also known as Billing Telephone Number (BTN)<br />
Mechanized Interface Specifications, as published by <strong>the</strong> Order Billing Forum<br />
network data mover<br />
A transfer protocol most DSET products support.<br />
number of secondary lines<br />
Enables customers to keep <strong>the</strong>ir original telephone number when <strong>the</strong>y change exchange carriers.<br />
The first three digits of a station number (in <strong>the</strong> format of <strong>the</strong> NPA-NXX-Line Number) that<br />
identifies <strong>the</strong> central office which serves that number. See also NPA<br />
Order and Billing Forum<br />
An organization of <strong>the</strong> Carrier Liaison Committee (CLC) of <strong>the</strong> Alliance for Telecommunications<br />
Industry Solutions (ATIS) providing a forum for customers and providers in <strong>the</strong> telecommunications<br />
industry to identify, discuss, and resolve national issues which affect ordering, billing, provisioning,<br />
and exchanging information about access services, etc.<br />
object request broker<br />
Software programs that allow different kinds of computer systems to exchange object data with each<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r, required for CORBA programming. Orbix is a CORBA ORB.<br />
partial file transfer protocol<br />
point to point protocol<br />
Public Utility Commission<br />
1. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks<br />
2. Retrieval and Information Database (Microsoft only)<br />
Glossary-iv 4.8.0 <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> April 2009