| Term | Unabridged | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Anypoint Platform | Anypoint Platform | A platform that is designed to provide capabilities such as API creation, publishing and governance. (https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/) |
| API | Application Programming Interface | A set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service. |
| Assure | Assure | The collective term for the processes and systems used for Enable’s faults logging and resolution processes/channel. |
| ATA | Analog Terminal Adapter | A device that allows a normal PSTN line to connect to the Internet to make or place telephone calls. |
| Authentication | Authentication | The API authentication is the token that is returned from the Auth API. It is used to grant access. |
| Card | Card | See Line Card. |
| CloudHub | CloudHub | An integration platform as a service (iPaaS), which allows sophisticated cross-cloud integration applications. |
| Count | Count | In context of pagination, count is the number of items to return. |
| Fibre Product | Fibre Product | A service on Enables Fibre Network. |
| GET | GET | An API method - read (or retrieve) a representation of a resource. |
| GPON | Gigabyte Passive Optical Network | A fibre standard that supports point-to-multipoint delivery of fibre to multiple premises. |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | A lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, and easy for machines to parse and generate. This API always returns response bodies in JSON format. |
| Line Card (or Card) | Line Card | Electronic interface that connects the Access Network to Inside Plant equipment. |
| Line Test | Line Test | Diagnostic of a service. Real time or historical. |
| Offset | Offset | Within pagination the offset is the number of items to skip before starting to collect the result set. |
| OLT | Optical Line Terminal | A PON Access Node that provides for the delivery of GPON/XGSPON services. |
| ONT | Optical Network Terminal | General term for a specialised piece of network equipment that terminates a single dark fibre and is located at the End User premises. |
| ONT Status | ONT Status | A value indicating the status of a target ONT. In the context of this API: a test to establish the status of a target ONT. |
| Optical Info | Optical Info | A measure of optical power attenuation levels across an optical cable. |
| PON | Passive Optical Network | A line consisting of optical fibres spliced end-to-end possibly via a splitter. |
| POST | POST | An API method - create a new resource. |
| Product ID | Product ID | Used to identify the target product/service to be tested when reading product info or initiating tests. |
| Line Test | Line Test | The name of this API. |
| REST | Representational State Transfer | A design pattern for web services that treats objects on the system side as resources that can be created, removed, or otherwise manipulated. A RESTful service is required to be stateless. It is an architectural style, not a specification. |
| RGW | Residential Gateway | Next generation gateway - an item in the premise used to centralise communications. |
| RGW Bandwidth | RGW Bandwidth | A measure of the bandwidth usage of an RGW. |
| RSP | Retail Service Provider | A business/organisation that has applied to become an RSP (reseller of products). |
| Staging | Staging | A version of this API that returns stubbed responses, used for application development. |
| Service ID | Service ID | This is the unique Identifier that is provided to the Line Test API to start a line test. |
| Status over time | Status over time | A set of values indicating the status of a target ONT over a period of time. In the context of this API: a test to establish the status of a target ONT over a period of time. |
| Test ID | Test ID | When an asynchronous request to initiate a test is sent, a reference test ID is returned, which is later used to retrieve the test. |
| TLC | Terralink Location Code | The location code from a standardised address database, replacing the need to enter an address. Enable does not use this. |
| UNI | User Network Interface | The ONT interface specification facing the End User. |
| UNI Port | UNI Port | A single Ethernet port on an ONT. |