Time Series Foundation Models - current state and future directions
Telecom Acronyms
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2. Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
AT&T and Verizon
Regulated monopoly, common carrier obligations
Carrier of Last Resort
Subset of that: former Bells
◦ Cincinnati Bell
◦ RBOC = regional Bell Operating companies
◦ I refer to AT&T & VZ as the last RBOCs
IOC (independent operating companies)
◦ CenturyLink, Windstream, TDS, Sprint/Embarq
◦ Frontier, Fairpoint, Hawaii Telecom
◦ Rural LECs (RLECs), like Hargray
3. Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
Have inter-connect agreement w/ILECs
Some ILECs have CLEC operations to provide
revenue to businesses outside their ILEC
territory.
◦ CenturyLink, Windstream, CinBell
CLECs could traditionally cross LATAs that
ILECs could not, so One Bill for Many Sites.
VZ, ATT, TDS are ILEC, CLEC, MSO, cellco
5. multi-system operator (MSO) is an operator
of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite
television systems. (cableco)
◦ Comcast, TWC, Cox, Charter,
Cablevision, Bright House
◦ WOW! Is an overbuilder MSO
◦ DISH, DirecTV = DBS = direct
broadcast satellite
9. Examples Types
Microsoft partners
Cisco VARs
Avaya partners
Agents
Master Agents
VAR
MSP
Inter-Connect
VAD
System integrators (SI)
10. Independent sales organizations that sell for
carriers and service providers.
Agents represent services from ILEC, CLEC,
now cable and ITSP and even cloud
companies.
Only paid for performance.
Agents can be direct with the carrier or sell
through a Master Agent.
11. Organization with multiple direct contracts to
carriers and service providers (SPs).
◦ Act as middleware for Agent to SP
◦ Conduit for SPs to Agents
◦ Handle orders, commissions, marketing
◦ Agents are often referred to as Sub-Agents
◦ Work on co-marketing dollars, commission cut
Examples: Telarus, Microcorp, WTG, TBI
12. Value-added Reseller
Typically sell hardware, install, support
◦ CAPEX model for cash flow
◦ Dealers for companies like HP, Cisco, Vmware
◦ Break/fix shops
◦ Typically handled LAN
◦ Now selling network services and cloud
CDW
Black Box
13. Managed Services Provider
A step up from VAR
Have converted to a recurring revenue model
Handle servers, desktops, VDI, backup, LAN
and router usually
Adding network + cloud, scared of voice
◦ mindShift, Independence IT, Netwolves
14. Value-added Partner
Typically sell software, integration, support
◦ IBM partners
◦ Microsoft partners can fall under this heading
◦ Cloud Sherpas
15. The original PBX sales channel
Typically sell PBX, install, maintenance
◦ Avaya, Mitel, Shoretel
16. Value Added Distributor
Catalog distributor of IT hardware, software
◦ Tech Data
◦ Ingram
◦ SYNNEX
◦ Arrow
TD owns TdMobility, a master agency for
cellular
Ingram, TD have agreements with Masters