Automatic Meter Reading ; technology of automatically collecting AMR consumption, diagnostic, and status data from devices and

transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing. API Application Programming Interface an approach which brings Telecommunications network providers and Application developers together to combine their network and web abilities in creating Enablement and delivering high demand advanced services and new intelligent applications. ARPU Average Revenue Per User ASP Application Service Provider Business Process Management; a holistic management approach focused on BPM aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate Common Base Event; an IBM implementation of the Web Services Distributed CBE Management Web Event Format standard. CDMA Code Division Multiple Access ; a channel access method Common Event Infrastructure; a unified set of APIs and infrastructure for the creation, transmission, persistence and distribution of a wide range of CEI business, system and network Common Base Event formatted events. COO Cost of Operation CSP Communications Service Provider DA Device Application DEP Date End Point a subset of nodes in a cluster that share device resources. More specifically, Device nodes in a device domain can participate in a switching action for some Domain collection of resilient device resources. DIA Device to Application Interface DIP Data Integration Point EJB Enterprise JavaBeans EPCIS Electronic Product Code Information Services Enterprise Service Bus; a software architecture construct which provides fundamental services for complex architectures via an event-driven and ESB standards-based messaging engine (the bus) ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute GA Gateway Application General Packet Radio Service; a packet oriented mobile data service on GPRS the 2G and 3G cellular communication systems global system for mobile communications (GSM) GPS Global Positioning System; Global System for Mobile Communications ; a standard set developed by GSM the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe technologies for second generation (or "2G") digital cellular networks Java Message Service; a Java Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) API for JMS sending messages between two or more clients. Java Server Faces; a Java-based Web application framework intended to JSF simplify development integration of web-based user interfaces.

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol; an application protocol for reading and editing directories over an IP network. Machine-to-Machine Machine to Application Interface Machine to Device Interface Message Queuing Interface Network Application Object Authority Manager Personal Communications Service Radio Frequency Identification ; a technology that uses communication through the use of radio waves to transfer data between a reader and an electronic tag attached to an object for the purpose of identification and tracking. Return on Investment Service Capabilities; A service can be seen as a container for a collection of related functions. These functions are called service capabili ties and those exposed via a service contract establish a basic API by which the service can be invoked. Service Component Architecture; provides a model for composing applications that follow Service-Oriented Architecture principles. Service Data Objects; a technology that allows heterogeneous data to be accessed in a uniform way. Service Message Objects Service-Oriented Architecture; a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration in co mputing Typically, any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics Telecommunications and Internet Converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking Universal Description, Discovery and Integration ; a platformindependent, Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet and a mechanism to register and locate web service applications. Web Services Business Process Execution Language; an standard executable language for specifying actions within business processes with web services. Web Services Description Language; n XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations; a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents