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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

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Silent Re-origination

Silent Re-origination

SIMPLE

SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging

Simplex

Simplex

Sky wave

Sky wave

Slave Device

Slave Device

Sleep mode

Sleep mode

Slotted Mode

Slotted Mode

Smart antenna

Smart antenna

SME

Short Message Entity

Sniff Mode

Sniff Mode

Soft Handover

Soft Handover

Soft key

Soft key

SONET

Synchronous Optical Network

Source Base Station

Source Base Station

Space diversity

Space diversity

Spectral density

Spectral density

Spectrum assignment

Spectrum assignment

Speech synthesizer

Speech synthesizer

Spread spectrum

Spread spectrum

Spurious emission

Spurious emission

SR3 Frequencies

SR3 Frequencies

SRES

Signed Response

SRNS Relocation

SRNS Relocation

Standby State

Standby State

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