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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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Soft Handover

Soft Handover

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Space diversity

Space diversity

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SPD

Security Policy Database

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Spectral density

Spectral density

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Spread spectrum

Spread spectrum

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SSD

Shared Secret Data

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SSDT

Site Selection Diversity Transmission

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SSID

Service Set Identifier

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Standby State

Standby State

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Standby Time

Standby Time

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Standing wave

Standing wave

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Store-and-forward

Store-and-forward

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Subnet address

Subnet address

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Subscribed QoS

Subscribed QoS

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Supplemental Code Channel

Supplemental Code Channel

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Synchronization Code

Synchronization Code

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T-ADS

Terminating Access Domain Selection

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T-DMB

Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Terrestrial)

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TAD

Traffic Aggregate Description

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TADIG

Transferred Account Data Interchange Group

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TD-CDMA

Time Division

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TDD

Time Division Duplex

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TDF-C

Traffic Detection Function Control plane function

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TDF-U

Traffic Detection Function User plane function

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