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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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PCRF

Policy and Charging Rules Function

PCS

Personal Communication System

PCU

Packet Control Unit

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

PDCH

Packet Data Channel

PDCP (LTE)

Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDCP (UMTS)

Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDF

Policy Decision Function

PDH

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy

PDI

Packet Detection Information

PDN

Public Data Network or Packet Data Network

PDN-GW

PDN Gateway

PDP Address

PDP Address

PDP Context

PDP Context

PDP Type

PDP Type

PDR

Packet Detection Rule

PDS

Packet Data Session

PDSN

Packet Data Serving Node

PDTCH

Packet Data Traffic Channel

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PE

Provider Edge

PEAP

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

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