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> what a telecom engineer would call an “NANP E.164”. NANP and E.164 are standards. NANP stands for North America Numbering Plan. E.164 is the international an
by nulbyte 5y ago
> what a telecom engineer would call an “NANP E.164”.
NANP and E.164 are standards. NANP stands for North America Numbering Plan. E.164 is the international analog to NANP for public numbers. No telecom engineer would call a number an "NANP E.164." The number of a network element like an SMSC is simply called an address.
- daneel_w 5y agoAs a former software developer in telecom who worked a lot with SMPP, I'd just call it a special-purpose MSISDN.
- nulbyte 5y agoThat sounds entirely reasonable. I just wish authors would stop trying to add random (and wrong) technical information to sound cool. The topic was interesting on its own without embellishment.
- djbusby 5y agoAuthor is in Romania, and those two items are each unique links to their respective Wikipedia articles. It's not embellishments, it's information