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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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CAPEX

Capital Expenditure

CAPIF

Common API Framework for 3GPP northbound APIs

CAPWAP

Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points

CAS

Channel Associated Signalling

CAST-128

CAST-128

CAT

Customized Alerting Tone

CAZAC

Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation

CCA

Credit Control Answer

CCA

Clear Channel Assessment

CD/CAICH

CPCH Collision Detection/Channel Assignment Indicator Channel

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CDMA Candidate Frequency

CDMA Candidate Frequency

CDMA Channel

CDMA Channel

CDMA Channel Number

CDMA Channel Number

CDMA Frequency Assignment

CDMA Frequency Assignment

CDMA Preferred Set

CDMA Preferred Set.

CDMA2000

CDMA2000

cdmaOne

cdmaOne

Cell - ATM

Cell (ATM)

Cell Relay

Cell Relay

Channel Coding

Channel Coding

CHAP

Challenge/Handshake Authentication Protocol

Chargeable Event

Chargeable Event

CIA

Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability

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