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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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Glossary Results

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UDR

Unified Data Repository

UDSF

Unstructured Data Storage Function

UDT

UNITDATA

UDTS

UNITDATA Service

UMD

Unacknowledged Mode Data

Unbalanced line

Unbalanced line

Unicode

Unicode

Unidirectional channel

Unidirectional channel

Unnumbered command

Unnumbered command

Unnumbered response

Unnumbered response

US-TDMA

US-TDMA

USSD

Unstructured Supplementary Service Data

VAD

Voice Activity Detector

VDSL

Very high data rate Digital Subscriber Line

VDSL

Very High Digital Subscriber Line

VDSL2

Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line

VID

VLAN Identifier

Videophone

Videophone

VNFFDG

VNF Forwarding Graph Descriptor

Vocoder

Vocoder

VoDSL

Voice over DSL