3GPP
3rd Generation Partnership Project: a cooperation of international standards bodies for the promotion of 3G wireless.
BSS
Business Support Systems: the systems that a telephone operator or telco uses to run its business operations. They typically deal with customers, supporting processes such as taking orders, processing bills, and collecting payments.
CABS
Carrier Access Billing System: the term applied to inter-carrier settlement within the North American market. (InterconnecT-CABS is the name of the Intec product for carrier access billing).
CDR
Call Detail Record: a record containing information relating to a single call or session. CDRs are generated by telephone provider switches and generally refer to voice calls. The term EDR is used to refer to all records generated within a network
Convergent billing
The process of preparing billing data for multiple convergent communications services.
Convergent Billing
Intec's Singl.eView module providing convergent billing
Convergent Mediation
Captures Call Data Records (CDRs) records and Event Data Records (EDRs) from the network, processes and transforms those records for preparation to pass to upstream OSS/BSS. Combines forward (post-event) mediation, active mediation and reverse mediation (activation). Content Partner Management.
CPM
Content Partner Management.
Customer Management
Intec's Singl.eView module providing customer management/ care.
EDR
Event Data Record: the term applied to network data records.
Enterprise software solutions
Software applications applied to the management of commercial enterprises.
Go-to-market partner
Commercial partner, working with Intec in the context of business development activity.
IFRS
International Financial Reporting Standards
IMS
IP Multimedia Subsystem: an integrated network for telecommunications carriers that uses the IP protocol as its foundation for packetized voice, video and data. Standards defined by the 3GPP.
Intec CCF
Intec's support for IMS off-line charging function.
Inter-activatE
Name of Intec’s service activation software product.
InterconnecT / InterconnecT PREP
Name of Intec’s interconnect billing event capture and formatting software product.
Interconnect billing
Inter-carrier Billing, which involves settlement between carriers for traffic carried and terminated on each others’ networks.
Inter-mediatE
Name of Intec’s post-event convergent mediation software product.
Inter-sessioN
Name of Intec’s active mediation software product.
IPTV
IP (Internet Protocol) Television.
Least Cost Routing (LCR)
Is the process that ensures that inter-carrier traffic is routed in the most cost effective way possible, to maintain a competitive cost base and acceptable call quality.
MVNO
Mobile Virtual Network Operator: a wholesale arrangement that allows the Mobile Network Operator (MNO) to sell excess capacity for resale by more diversified, specialised or other markets through hosting a service on its network to an MVNO.
Offline charging
Post-event charging, particularly associated with next generation services.
Optimal Routing
The process whereby LCR is enabled.
OSS
Operational Support Systems: network systems dealing with the telecom network, supporting processes such as maintaining network inventory, provisioning services, configuring network components, and managing faults.
Post Event Mediation
Post mediation platforms collect EDRs, convert them into a normalised output format, and then distribute it to third-party applications such as billing, traffic analysis, fraud management systems etc.
PRM
Partner Relationship Management.
Retail billing
End customer billing, which can include consumer as well as enterprise billing.
Singl.eView
Name of Intec's charging, billing and customer care suite
Telemanagement Forum
Telecom Trade Association.
UK GAAP
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
VoIP
Voice over IP: Use of Internet Protocol (IP, see TCP/IP) to carry and route two-way voice communications.
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network: a short range radio network normally deployed in traffic hotspots such as airport lounges, hotels and restaurants. WLAN enables suitably equipped users to access the fixed network wirelessly, providing high speed access (up to 11Mbit/s download) to distant servers.
WiMAX
World Interoperability for Microwave Access, Inc: An organisation that promotes the IEEE 802.16 wireless broadband standard and provides certification for devices for compliant devices. WiMAX is designed to extend local Wi-Fi networks across greater distances such as a campus, as well as to provide last mile connectivity to an ISP or other carrier many miles away.
