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Definition PSTN, Cellular,

Access Network Service (ANS) Operator

Cable Service Provider, Data Service Provider and Internet Service Provider who have a direct access with the subscribers or end users;

Access Network PSTN, Cellular, Cable Service Provider and ISPs who have a direct access Service Operators with the subscribers. (ANS Op shall include IGW Operators, ICX Operators, IX Operators and such licensed operators whose network shall have the provisions to provide interconnection with the networks of other operators.

Access Provider

Application Form means a form prescribed for applying for the license for Application Form the operation of NIX services.

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) is the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia-Pacific region. APNIC provides number resource Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (IP and AS number) allocation and registration services that support the global operation of the Internet. It is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization whose members include Internet Service Providers, National Internet Registries, and similar organizations.

Autonomous System Number (ASN): Autonomous System (AS) is a Autonomous System Number (ASN) collection of IP networks in the Internet and routers under the control of one entity (or sometimes more) that presents a common routing policy to the Internet. A unique ASN is allocated to each AS for use in BGP routing. With

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Definition BGP, AS numbers are important because the ASN uniquely identifies each network on the Internet.

Bi-Lateral Peering Agreement (BLPA), where NIX will only provide Bi-Lateral Peering layer-2 connection/switch port to ISPs and every ISPs will arrange necessary Agreement (BLPA) peering arrangement with other ISPs by their mutual business understanding.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol of the Internet. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) It works by maintaining a table of IP networks or prefixes which designate network reach ability among autonomous systems (AS). It is described as a path vector protocol. BGP does not use traditional IGP metrics, but makes routing decisions based on path, network policies and/or rule sets.

Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)

means high speed mobile wireless internet access and the subscribers will be allowed to use their equipment as fixed, nomadic or mobile.

BTCL

means the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited under the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board Ordinance, 1979 and any of its successors

BTTB

means the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board established under the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board Ordinance, 1979 and any of its successors .

refers to the increasing trend of relocating entire business function and processes to either self-owned or third party service providers, typically in Business Process low cost location. The most common examples of BPO are Call Centers, Outsourcing Human Resources Management, Back Office Banking, Accounting, (BPO) Insurance Claim, Tax, Payroll, and other business data process outsourcing.

Call Detail Records (CDR)

The detail records generated by all types of switches and HUB in binary or any other form or file that includes all types of records of outgoing or

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Definition incoming calls or calls in transit with caller and called party number, origin and destination of calls, call duration, calling time, location, etc.

CCTLD is the Countrys Top Level DNS (i.e. dot bd or .bd for Bangladesh). CCTLD Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) usually offers full software and hardware package for Internet Interconnection Exchanges.

Connection means the visible or invisible or logical linking of Connection telecommunication network.

Term

Definition Deep Packet Investigation (DPI) is a form of computer network packet filtering that examines the data and/or header part of a packet as it passes an inspection point, searching for non-protocol compliance, viruses, spam, predefined criteria to decide if the packet can pass or if it needs to be routed to a different destination, or for the purpose of collecting statistical information.

Deep Packet Investigation (DPI)

Fast Ethernet (FE) is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s in computer networking. Fast Ethernet (FE) Gigabit Ethernet (GE) is a term describing various technologies for Gigabit Ethernet (GE) transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a Gigabit per second.

International Long Distance Telecommunication Services Policy (existing or to be formulated by the Government from time to time ILDTS Policy

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Definition Switching system which provides interconnection among telecommunication networks of operators and allows monitoring, lawful interception (LI) facilities and

Interconnection Exchange (ICX)

roaming number portability.

Switching systems through which international voice traffic is sent and received, with provisions for International Gateway (IGW) allowing physical monitoring of the traffic flow;

International Internet Gateway (IIG) International Long Distance Cable (ILDC) International Private Leased Circuit (IP

International Internet Gateway (IIG) refers to switching systems through which international data traffic is sent and received. It allows non-business computer-based voice traffic (messenger etc.).

means submarine cable (SC) and/or International Terrestrial Cable (ITC) service provider.

International point to point leased circuit.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Inernet standards, cooperating closely with the World Wide Web Consortium and ISO/IEC standard bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite. It is an open standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements. All participants and leaders are volunteers, though their work is usually funded by their employers or sponsors.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

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Definition switching system which connects all the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and equivalent service providers to an exchange having two parts, to wit(1) International Internet Gateway (IIG) providing for global internet connectivity and (2) National Internet Exchange (NIX) providing for connectivity with domestic Internet Service Providers and equivalent service providers.

Internet Exchange (IX)

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth iteration of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. IPv4 is the dominant network layer protocol on the Internet. It uses 24 bit for Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Addressing.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer for PacketSwitched Internet works. It is designated as the successor of IPv4, the current version of the Internet Protocol, for general use on the Internet. The main change brought by IPv6 is a much larger address space that allows Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides Internet services to the end Internet Service Provider (ISP) users. greater flexibility in assigning addresses. It uses 128 bit for Addressing.

The telephone system allowing voice to travel over data networks using Internet Protocol. IP Telephony

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Definition

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Definition International Telecommunication Union

ITU Lease means providing authority to others for using telecommunication transmission facilities for telecommunication purpose in consideration for a rental. Lease Licensee means a company registered in Bangladesh under the Companys Act 1994 that has been permitted and awarded a license to develop, build, operate, maintain and to lease out National Internet Exchange. Licensee Looking Glass Server is a Route Collector. It collects all routes available for global view. Looking Glass Mobile Switching Center (MSC) is the primary service delivery node for GSM, responsible for handling voice calls and SMS as well as other services (such as conference calls, FAX and circuit switched data). The MSC sets up and releases the end-to-end connection, handles mobility and hand-over requirements during the call and takes care of charging and real time prepaid account monitoring. Mobile Switching Center (MSC) Page 20 of 27

Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is free software for monitoring Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) and measuring the traffic load on network links. It allows the user to see

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Definition traffic load on a network over time in graphical form.

Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement (MLPA), where each ISP will simply peer with a route server installed in the NIX. Route server will collect and Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement distribute only the directly connected routes to every peers. (MLPA) National Internet eXchange (NIX) is the exchange point for passing Internet traffic within the country according to the agreement among or National Internet eXchange (NIX) between the ISPs.

is a packet based network able to provide services including telecommunication services and able to make use of multiple broadband, QoS-enabled transport technologies and in which service related functions are independent from underlying transport related technologies. It offers unrestricted access by users to different service providers. It supports Next Generation Network (NGN) NTP server is a server to provide Network Time Protocol (NTP) service for the ISP and other authorized users under NIX. NTP server Number Portability is the term used to describe capability of individuals, business and organizations to retain their existing telephone number(s) and the same quality of service when switched to another local service provider. Number Portability a method to move data around on the Internet. In packet switching, the data is broken up into chunks, attached with address and allows many people to use same line at the same time. Packet Switching Performance Bank Guarantee from a scheduled Bank mentioned in Bangladesh Bank Order 1972 (P.O. No. 127 of 1972). PBG generalized mobility which will allow consistent and ubiquitous provision of services to users.

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Definition Peering is voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or sender keeps all, meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic, instead, each derives revenue from its own customers.

Peering physical location at which two or more networks interconnect through Point of Interconnection (POI) switches, nodes or other facilities and offering access to the operator/service operators.

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Definition Point of Presence (POP) means setting up of switching center and transmission center of appropriate capacity to provide on demand service of prescribed quality and grade of service in a non

Point of Presence (POP)

discriminatory manner.

PSTN is the network of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks. PSTN is evaluated on the basis of measures on the grade of service, calls lost due to wrong processing, bit error rate, response time, acceptable number of faults per unit subscribers served, and Mean Time To Restore (MTTR), Quality of Service (QoS) faults carried over beyond the MTTR, etc.

Quarter means a period of three months. Quarter Root Server or Root Server or Root Name Server is a DNS server that answers Root Name Server

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Definition requests for the DNS root zone, and redirects requests for a particular TopLevel Domain (TLD) to that TLDs name servers. Although any local implementation of DNS can implement its own private root name servers, the term root name server is generally used to describe the thirteen wellknown root name servers that implement the root namespace domain for the Internets official global implementation of the Domain Name System.

Route Server serves as BGP information exchange to other BGP routers. Each ISPs BGP router only peers to Route Server. Unlike normal BGP router, Route Server must have several routing tables for managing different routing policies for each BGP speaker. Route Server an application layer protocol that uses text format messages to setup, manage and terminate multimedia communication sessions. SIP enables the audio signals and dialled digits to be converted into packets that can be routed through a data network i.e. Internet

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) forms part of the Internet protocol suite as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). SNMP is used in network management systems to monitor networkattached devices for conditions that warrant administrative attention. It Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP SS7 consists of a set of standards for network management, including an Application Layer protocol, a database schema, and a set of data objects.

Signaling system number 7 which is an ITU-T common channel signaling

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Definition protocol

rates, charges payable by a subscriber for service provided and related conditions at which telecommunication services may be provided including rates and related conditions at which messages shall be transmitted, deposits, installation fees, rentals, free calls, usages charges and any other related fees or service charge and also the term tariff shall have the same meaning as contained in the telecommunication TARIFF orders issued by the Commission. Tariff mapping of telephone numbers to Uniform Resources Identifiers (URIs) tElephone NUmber Mapping (ENUM) using the Domain Name System (DNS) in the domain e164.arpa. and enabling convergence between PSTN/PLMN and Internet.

Value-added service (VAS) is a non-core telecommunication service. Services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions generally fall under VAS. In mobile industry, technologies like SMS, MMS and GPRS are usually considered value-added services.

Value-added service (VAS)

Very Small Aperture Terminal-HUB (VSAT-HUB) is a two-way satellite ground station with a dish antenna that is around 9.3 meters diameter. It is used for overall control of the Remote Terminal/VSAT network and manages

Very Small Aperture Terminal- the Hub itself. HUB (VSAT-H

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

usually refers to a network in which some of the parts are connected using the public internet but the data sent across the internet is encrypted, so the entire network is Virtually Private.

is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP network. The voice data flows over a general-purpose packet-switched network, instead of the traditional dedicated, circuit-switched voice Voice over Internet transmission lines. Protocol (VoIP)

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Definition Wi Fi (Wireless fidelity), is used generically to refer to WLAN (IEEE 802.11) technology providing short-range, high data rate connections between mobile data devices and access points connected to a wired network .

Wi Fi WiMAX ( Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access ) is a telecommunication protocol that provides fixed and fully mobile Internet access. The current WiMAX revision provides up to 40 Mbit/s with the IEEE 802.16m update expected to offer up to 1Gbit/s fixed speeds. The name WiMAX was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformity and interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX as a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL. WiMAX