Glossary of Terms

Understand basic Public Safety definitions and terms.

MAC Address

Definition:

Media Access Control address. A unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical
network segment. MAC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including
ethernet.

Ping

A computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network. Ping works by sending ICMP “echo request” packets...

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NNI

IP Network to Network Interface.

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NOC

Network Operations Center. Carrier group responsible for the day‐to‐day care of a network.

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E-UTRAN

Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network. An air interface to 3GPP's Long Term Evolution (LTE) upgrade path for mobile networks.

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