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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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CDMA Preferred Set

CDMA Preferred Set.

CELP

Code Excited Linear Predictive Coding

CEPT

Conference des administrations Europê des Poste set Telecommunications

CFP

Contention Free Period

CHAP

Challenge/Handshake Authentication Protocol

Chirping

Chirping

CHP

Charging Point

Ciphertext

Ciphertext

CLIP

Connected Line Identification Presentation

CLP

Cell Loss Priority

CMIP

Client Mobile IP

CMP

Certificate Management Protocol

Common Power Control Sub channel

Common Power Control Sub channel

Companding

Companding

Compression

Compression

COPS

Common Open Policy Services

CP

Cyclic Prefix

CP

Connection Protocol

CP

Contention Period

CP-OFDM

Cyclic Prefix – Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

CPCH

Common Power Control Channel

CPCS

Common Part Convergence Sublayer

CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

CPG

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