Glossary
Breaking down the technologies, terminologies and acroyms across telecommunications.
What is Optical?
Optical On Demand Your guide to Layer 1, On Demand networking Back to Colt On Demand Part One Optical networking on-demand provides economical, high-performance DC inter-connection Application and network administrators have realised that there isn’t one perfect theatre of operation, and a hybrid approach is being used to take advantage of the best features of…
Read More
What is Smart Manufacturing?
The importance of connectivity for smart manufacturing: Is your network best suited to overcome the connectivity challenges associated with smart manufacturing? Three reasons why connectivity cannot be an afterthought Manufacturing companies are operating in an era of accelerated disruption and uncertainty. Optical On Demand Connectivity It’s not easy to be successful in the manufacturing world.
Read More
What are Inbound Numbers?
Inbound Voice is a cloud-based telephony service for both geographic and non-geographic numbers that provides online access to a full range of call routing
Read More
What is digital infrastructure?
| 15 min read What is digital infrastructure? How a flexible, secure and intelligent foundation can make the difference to your business. Check your connectivity What is digital infrastructure? Digital infrastructure is the foundation of any connected business. It enables success, powers transformation and connects people around the world. It includes connectivity, cloud, compute, security,…
Read More
What are APIs
Get the lowdown on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) The ABCs of APIs There’s been plenty of talk and interest in APIs over the past few years, with them becoming more prevalent in our day-to-day lives as well in the business world. At Colt we use APIs across our voice and network portfolio, to increase automation…
Read More
What is UCaaS?
UCaaS stands for Unified Communications as a Service and is a cloud-delivered model that provides a variety of communication and collaboration applications and services, as a single managed service. The cloud-delivered unified communications structure can support up to six main functions: With UCaaS, the underlying infrastructure is owned, operated, maintained and delivered by the provider…
Read More
What is SDN?
With recent exponential growth of network demand with the rise of multimedia on demand content, cloud computing and increasing mobile usage – businesses have been facing increasing pressure to reduce costs & maintain capacity to keep in line with customer demand. In this guide, we aim to break down the compontents, advantages & industry implications of moving to SDN.
Read More
What is Universal CPE?
uCPE (or Universal Customer Premise equipment), is a general purpose platform that integrates compute, storage and networking on a commodity, off-the-shelf server, allowing it to provide network services (such as SD WAN, firewall etc.) as virtual functions to any site on a network. uCPE is the equivalent of a “Cloud for network services”, but at the customer premise.
Read More- « Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
