A Quick Post on Telecom Terms

I plan to talk a little about Telecom in the near future. I think it will be helpful to those whose background is not in Telecom to have a little Cheat Sheet. I will add another or probably more, but I want to give you some of the common terms, since this is such an acronym heavy industry.

POTS Line - Plain Old Telephone Service, this is a plain old phone line into your house or business. This is traditional phone service, not voice over IP, like the service provided by a cable provider.

T1.5 - A "T One" is a high speed line 1.5 megabit per second line used for a variety of telecom services. It can be channelized into 24 channels for voice use. The channels can all inbound (incoming 800; Toll-Free numbers) Outbound for making outgoing calls or dynamically allocated so the number of channels for Toll-Free & Outbound will vary according to the calling pattern at any given time. It can be a 1.5 megabit per second Internet connection. The reason businesses will use this instead of a cable modem or DSL line is that with a T1.5, they have Service Level Agreements (SLA's) that guarantee availability of that bandwidth for something like 99.99X%, so it is essentially always available for their usage.

More to follow!