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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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ESA

Extended Service Area

ESInet

Emergency Services IP network

ESM

EPS Session Management

ESN

Electronic Serial Number

ESP

Encapsulating Security Payload

ESS

Extended Service Set

ETACS

Extended Total Access Communications System

Ethernet Address

Ethernet Address

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EVS

Enhanced Voice Services

f-csch

Forward common signaling logical channel

f-dsch

Forward dedicated signaling logical channel

Fast Ethernet

Fast Ethernet

FCAPS

Fault Configuration Accounting Performance and Security

FCS

Frame Check Sequence

FHSS

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

FISU

Fill In Signalling Unit

Fixed Wireless Local Loop

Fixed Wireless Local Loop

Flash

Flash

Flash memory

Flash memory

Flash RAM

Flash RAM

Flash ROM

Flash ROM

FMS

First Missing PDCP Sequence Number

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