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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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SFN

Cell System Frame Number

SFN

System Frame Number

SFP

Small-form Factor Pluggable

SHF

Super High Frequency

SIDF

Subscriber Identity De-concealing Function

SIF

Service Information Field

SIFS

Short Interframe Space

Sigfox

Sigfox

Signaling Traffic

Signaling Traffic

SLF

Subscription Locator Function

SMF

Service Management Function

SMF

Session Management Function

SMSF

Short Message Service Function

Sniff Mode

Sniff Mode

Soft Handover

Soft Handover

Soft key

Soft key

SR3 Frequencies

SR3 Frequencies

SRF

Specialized Resource Function

SSCF

Service Specific Coordination Function

SSF

Service Switching Function

Store-and-forward

Store-and-forward

Superframe

Superframe

Surface wave

Surface wave

Surface Web

Surface Web

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