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

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Radio Spectrum

Radio Spectrum

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RAND

Random Number

RANDBS

Base Station Random Variable

RANDC

Random Challenge

RANDU

Unique Random Variable

RAPID

Random Access Preamble Identifier

Rayleigh Fading

Rayleigh Fading

RD

Route Distinguisher

Ready State

Ready State

Received Signal Code Power

Received Signal Code Power

Redundancy

Redundancy

Redundancy check

Redundancy check

Refractive index

Refractive index

Regular PDU

Regular PDU

Requested QoS

Requested QoS

Required Eb/No+Io

Required Eb/(No+Io) (dB)

Reservation Access Mode

Reservation Access Mode

Residual error rate

Residual error rate

Reverse CDMA Channel

Reverse CDMA Channel

Reverse Dedicated Control Channel

Reverse Dedicated Control Channel

Reverse Fundamental Channel

Reverse Fundamental Channel

Reverse Supplemental Code Channel

Reverse Supplemental Code Channel

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