Glossary of Terms

Understand basic Public Safety definitions and terms.

NOC

Definition:

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

WIN

Wireless Intelligent Network. Term used by cellular carriers in the wireless industry. SS7 based, Standardization Activity (IS‐53), MIN based...

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NNI

IP Network to Network Interface.

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MAC Address

Media Access Control address. A unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses...

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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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