Skip to content
Join the Live Open Session - Introduction to 5G, 27th October, 13:00 (UK Time). Free for Unlimited Access users | £95.00 for non-members
We’re attending MWC Barcelona 2026
From 2–5 March 2026, meet the Mpirical team and explore industry-led telecoms training. Find us in Hall 4, Stand CS300
Glossary header - telecoms antenna at height over fields

Glossary

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

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Glossary Results

18 19 20 21 22 ...

SOC

Security Operations Centre

SOCKS

SOCKS

SOCR

Service Option Connection Reference

Soft Handover

Soft Handover

Soft key

Soft key

SOHO

Small Office Home Office

SoLSA

Support of Localized Service Area

SONET

Synchronous Optical Network

SOR

Support of Optimal Routing

Source Base Station

Source Base Station

Spurious emission

Spurious emission

SRNS Relocation

SRNS Relocation

SSCOP

Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol

Star topology

Star topology

Station

Station

Store-and-forward

Store-and-forward

SU-MIMO

Single User - MIMO

Subscribed QoS

Subscribed QoS

Supplemental Code Channel

Supplemental Code Channel

Synchronization

Synchronization

Synchronization Code

Synchronization Code

Synchronous Transmission

Synchronous Transmission

Target Base Station

Target Base Station

TDOA

Time Difference On Arrival

18 19 20 21 22 ...