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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.

# 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

SB

Synchronisation Burst

SBA

Service Based Architecture

SBC

Session Border Controller

SBCF

Session Based Charging Function

SBI

Service Based Interface

SBLP

Service Based Local Policy

Selective Call Barring

Selective Call Barring

SgNB

Secondary gNB

SIB

Service Independent Building Block

SIB

System Information Block

SIB1-BR

SIB1 Bandwidth Reduced

Source Base Station

Source Base Station

SRB

Signalling Radio Bearer

Standby State

Standby State

Standby Time

Standby Time

STB

Set Top Box

Sublayer

Sublayer

Subnet address

Subnet address

Subscribed QoS

Subscribed QoS

Subscriber

Subscriber

Surface Web

Surface Web

Sxb Interface

Sxb Interface

T-BCSM

Terminating Basic Call State Model

T-DMB

Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Terrestrial)