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

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a-number

a-number

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A-SBC

Access Session Border Controller

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AB

Access Burst

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ABI

Application Binary Interface

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Abis Interface

Abis Interface

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ABM

Asynchronous Balanced Mode

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ABMF

Account Balance Management Function

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ABNF

Augmented Backus-Naur Form

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ABR

Available Bit Rate

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ABR

Area Border Router

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Ambient Noise

Ambient Noise

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AMBR

Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate

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AMR-WB

AMR Wideband

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Answerback

Answerback

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APN AMBR

Access Point Name Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate

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ARIB

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses

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ASBR

Autonomous System Boundary Router

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ATB

All Trunks Busy

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AUTHBS

Base Station Authentication Response

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Automated Key Distribution

Automated Key Distribution

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B Link

Bridge link

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B-ISDN

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network

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b-number

b-number

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B-RAS

Broadband Remote Access Server

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