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Glossary

Explore our library of thousands of telecoms terms and acronyms defined for on-the-job reference or learning new material.

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NAK

Negative Acknowledgement

NAM

Number Assignment module

Name Discovery

Name Discovery

Namf

AMF Service-based Interface

NAPTR

Naming Authority Pointer

NAS

Non Access Stratum

NAS - IuCS

Non Access Stratum (IuCS)

NAS - Iur

Non Access Stratum (Iur)

NAS - UMTS

Non Access Stratum (UMTS)

NAS EMM

NAS EPS Mobility Management

NAS ESM

Non Access Stratum EPS Session Management

NASS

Network Access Sub System

NAT

Network Address Translation

NAT-T

NAT-Traversal

Nausf

AUSF Service-based Interface

NAV

Network Allocation Vector

NBA

NASS-IMS Bundled Authentication

NBAP

Node B Application Part

NENA

National Emergency Number Association

NG RAN

NextGen RAN

NGAP

NG Application Protocol

NSA NR

Non-Standalone New Radio

NSAPI

Network Service Access Point Identifier

NSSAI

Network Slice Selection Assistance Information

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