Provision

How it is used

Very common at operators and in cloud work. Teams provision circuits, SIM cards, IP addresses and new customer services; the noun is 'provisioning', as in the provisioning team or provisioning time. A new business fibre line can take weeks to provision.

Example sentences

1. The carrier needs ten working days to provision the new 1 Gbps circuit.

2. Once the order is approved, the system provisions the customer's line automatically.

Common collocations

• provision a circuit
• provision a service
• provisioning team
• automated provisioning
• provisioning time

Related terms

• carrierA telecommunications company that owns or operates a network and carries voice and data traffic for customers or for other operators.
• ISPShort for internet service provider: a company that sells internet access to homes and businesses, usually over fibre, DSL, cable or mobile networks.
• configureTo set up a device or service by entering the settings it needs, such as addresses, passwords, VLANs and routing, so that it works the way the network requires.
• SD-WANShort for software-defined wide area network: an approach that manages a company's WAN links centrally through software and sends each application over the best available link, such as internet, 4G or MPLS.
• SLAShort for service level agreement: the part of a contract in which a provider promises measurable service levels, such as uptime, repair time and latency, often with penalties if it fails.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• provision · Software Engineering
• provision · Cloud Computing & DevOps
• provision · Finance & Banking
• provision · Accounting & Tax
• provision · Law

More terms: Telecom Operators and Services

• spectrum
• last mile
• backbone
• broadband
• MPLS
• NOC