Provisioning (technology)
process of preparing, deploying, and making available IT infrastructure, network services, or other technology resources
In telecommunications, provisioning involves the process of preparing and equipping a network to allow it to provide new services to its users. In National Security/Emergency Preparedness telecommunications services, "provisioning" equates to "initiation" and includes altering the state of an existing priority service or capability.
The concept of network provisioning or service mediation, mostly used in the telecommunication industry, refers to the provisioning of the customer's services to the network elements, which are various equipment connected in that network communication system. Generally in telephony provisioning this is accomplished with network management database table mappings. It requires the existence of networking equipment and depends on network planning and design.
In a modern signal infrastructure employing information technology (IT) at all levels, there is no possible distinction between telecommunications services and "higher level" infrastructure. Accordingly, provisioning configures any required systems, provides users with access to data and technology resources, and refers to all enterprise-level information-resource management involved.
Organizationally, a CIO typically manages provisioning, necessarily involving human resources and IT departments cooperating to:
Give users access to data repositories or grant authorization to systems, network applications and databases based on a unique user identity.
Appropriate for their use hardware resources, such as computers, mobile phones and pagers.
As its core, the provisioning process monitors access rights and privileges to ensure the security of an enterprise's resources and user privacy.
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