The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provision \Pro*vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provisioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Provisioning.] To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
They were provisioned for a journey.
--Palfrey.
Wiktionary
n. An act of supplying with provisions. vb. (present participle of provision English)
Wikipedia
In telecommunication, 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. 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. As a secondary responsibility, it ensures compliance and minimizes the vulnerability of systems to penetration and abuse. As a tertiary responsibility, it tries to reduce the amount of custom configuration using boot image control and other methods that radically reduce the number of different configurations involved.
Discussion of provisioning often appears in the context of virtualization, orchestration, utility computing, cloud computing, and open-configuration concepts and projects. For instance, the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC) defines an XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource, and service-provisioning information - SPML (Service Provisioning Markup Language) for "managing the provisioning and allocation of identity information and system resources within and between organizations".
Once provisioning has taken place, the process of SysOpping ensures the maintenance of services to the expected standards. Provisioning thus refers only to the setup or startup part of the service operation, and SysOpping to the ongoing support.
Cruise ships consume vast amounts of food every day; as an example, the following is a list of supplies provisioned on board the Celebrity cruise ship Constellation, carrying up to 1,950 passengers and 999 crew, for an average 7 day cruise.
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of beef
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of lamb
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of pork
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of veal
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of sausage
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of chicken
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of turkey
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of fish
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of crab
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of lobster
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of fresh vegetables
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of potatoes
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of fresh fruit
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of milk
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of cream
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of ice cream
- 9,235 dozen eggs
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of sugar
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of rice
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of cereal
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of jelly
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of coffee
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of cookies
- 2,450 tea bags
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of herbs and spices
- 3,400 bottles of assorted wines
- 200 bottles of champagne
- 200 bottles of gin
- 290 bottles of vodka
- 350 bottles of whiskey
- 150 bottles of rum
- 45 bottles of sherry
- 600 bottles of assorted liqueurs
- 10,100 bottles/cans of beer
Of course, not all this food will be consumed during the voyage, the ship must keep a percentage in reserve to allow for delays, etc. The figure includes all supplies for cooking meals in the three restaurants and buffets, room service, bars and lounges, as well as all baking and confectionery supplies, for officers and crew as well as passengers.
The Constellation at full capacity feeds 3 meals a day to over 1950 passengers and 999 officers and crew, comparable to the provisions that any small town might consume in one week.
Provisioning means equipping a telecommunications network
Provisioning may also refer to:
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Provisioning (cruise ship), supplying a vessel for an extended voyage
- Provisioning of the USS Constitution
- Mass provisioning, a form of parental behavior in which an adult insect stocks all the food for each of her offspring in a small chamber
- Progressive provisioning, a form of parental behavior in which an adult feeds its larvae directly after they have hatched
Usage examples of "provisioning".
Ah, but the manses will always require provisioning, and even offensive meat is still meat!
They also take men, for thralls, lieutenants, and for the provisioning of the manse.
Of course, there is always the provisioning: a manse has its needs no less than its inhabitants.
Or, if Tzonov's men should prove too valuable for use in the provisioning, then they (and their weapons, of course) could always be recruited.
Thus the great brute met his end in the provisioning of the Lord Vormulac's melancholy Vormspire, which I believe was my father's fate before him .
Understanding that whales appeared in the Offshore Ground in November, Pollard resolved to make one final provisioning stop in South America, where he'd secure plenty of fruits, vegetables, and water.
In 1815, Hezekiah Coffin, the father of Pollard's young cousin Owen, had died during a provisioning stop in the islands off Timor, between Java and New Guinea.
Lord Doombody was also provisioning, and likewise the rest of the vampire Lords.
Perhaps he'd had wind of Lord Doombody's provisioning and other preparations for war, and the accompanying rumour that Drama!
I am now in favor of provisioning Fort Sumter, no matter what the risk.
A week ago, I sent a clerk from the War Department down to Charleston to read to Governor Pickens a note from me to the effect that if they did not try to stop us from provisioning our fort, we would in no way add to its manpower or fire power.
The instructions took longer than the provisioning,' and she grinned maliciously.
Slowly but surely, the task of provisioning the Weyr was being handled by the Holds so, one way or another, the dragonriders often ate far better than holders.
The matter of supply and provisioning, for example, weighs heavily on all competent commanders.
Meanwhile, merchant vessels of every kind and description arrived in port fully laden with supplies of grain, oil, wine, and livestock, for the provisioning of the crusaders.