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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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S-GW

Serving Gateway

S-NSSAI

Single - Network Slice Selection Assistance Information

S-RNTI

Serving RNC Radio Network Temporary Identifier

S-SCH

Secondary Synchronised Channel

S-TMSI

Serving Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

S/MIME

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

S/P

Supplementary/Polling

S1AP

S1 Application Protocol

SA

Service Area

SA

Security Association

SA NR

Standalone New Radio

SAAL

ATM Adaptation Layer for Signalling

SABM

Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode

SAC

Service Area Code

SACCH

Slow Associated Control Channel

SACK

Selective Acknowledgement

SAE

System Architecture Evolution

SAI

Service Area Identifier

SAM

ubsequent Address Message

Sampling rate

Sampling rate

SAP

Session Announcement Protocol

SAP

Service Access Point

SAPI

Service Access Point Identifier

SAPSD

Scheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery

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