Glossary
The acronyms and technical terms used on this website, what they mean and what they are for.
- API: Application programming interface
- A documented way for two systems to exchange information. It allows integration without changing each system internally.
- AI: Artificial intelligence
- Techniques that classify, extract, search or suggest based on data. Useful when applied to a specific problem, with limits and human control.
- IP: Internet Protocol
- The rules for addressing and routing data between networks. "IP transit" is a network's access to the rest of the Internet.
- MPLS: Multiprotocol Label Switching
- A technique used for private networks between sites. It keeps each client's traffic separate and allows critical traffic to be prioritised.
- NIF: Tax identification number
- The number that identifies a company or a person to the Angolan tax authorities.
- OCR: Optical character recognition
- Turns images of documents into searchable text. It requires quality control and human review of exceptions.
- PDF: Portable document format
- A file format for saving or sharing a document so that it looks the same on any device.
- RAG: Retrieval-augmented generation
- A way of building assistants that answer from retrieved documents and show the sources they used.
- SLA: Service level agreement
- Measurable commitments, such as availability and response times, written into the contract.
- VSAT: Very small aperture terminal
- A satellite antenna and equipment for sites with no terrestrial alternative.
- WACS, SACS, SAT-3: West Africa Cable System, South Atlantic Cable System and South Atlantic 3: submarine cables landing in Angola
- Submarine optical fibre cable systems connecting Angola to other continents.
- Angonix: Angola's Internet exchange point
- A place where networks exchange traffic directly within the country, without sending it abroad.
- Mbit/s, Gbit/s: Megabits and gigabits per second
- Measures of link speed. 1 Gbit/s equals 1,000 Mbit/s.
- 24x7: Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
- Indicates a service that is available at all times.
- CSV: Comma-separated values
- An open text format for tables; any spreadsheet can read it.