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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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ARIB

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses

ARJ

Admission Reject

ARL

Adjusted Ring Length

ARP

Allocation and Retention Priority

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA

Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPF

Authentication Credential Repository and Processing Function

ARPU

Average Revenue Per User

ARQ

Automatic Repeat Request

ARU

Audio Response Unit

ASBR

Autonomous System Boundary Router

Asynchronous

Asynchronous

ATM Forum

ATM Forum

AUTHR

Authentication Response

Auto Correlation Function

Auto Correlation Function

Automated Key Distribution

Automated Key Distribution

Average Transmit Power

Average Transmit Power

AVRCP

Audio/Video Remote Control Profile

b-number

b-number

B-RAS

Broadband Remote Access Server

Backdoor

Backdoor

Backdoor Accounts

Backdoor Accounts

BAR

Buffering Action Rule

Bastion Server

Bastion Server

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