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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

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