Telecom & IT Glossary: The Jargon, Translated

Connects your sites across multiple links and reroutes automatically when one fails.

Networking and zero-trust security delivered together as one cloud service.

Cloud phone, video and messaging on a single platform, billed per user.

A circuit reserved for your business alone, with guaranteed speed and an SLA.

The private carrier network SD-WAN is steadily replacing.

Renting data center space, power and connectivity for your own hardware.

A second path that carries your full load, not a 5G stopgap.

Running more than one cloud deliberately, to avoid lock-in.

Trust nothing by default. Verify every request against identity and context.

Auditing invoices against contracts to recover errors and cut dead lines.

Fewer suppliers, fewer invoices, one point of accountability.

Outsourced round-the-clock threat detection and response, without your own SOC.

The bandwidth, data access and controls an AI tool needs before it works.

Tracking and optimizing cloud spend the way finance tracks budget.

An outsourced team running your security stack day to day.