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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.

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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OFCS

Offline Charging System

OS

Operating System

OSA

Open Service Access

OSI

Open System Interconnection

OSI Reference Model

OSI Reference Model

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

OSS

Operations Support System

Out of Band Signalling

Out of Band Signalling

P-CSCF

Proxy - Call Session Control Function

P-SCH

Primary Synchronization Channel

P-TMSI

Packet - Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

PageState

PageState

Passkey

Passkey

Path Loss

Path Loss

PCS

Personal Communication System

PDCP (UMTS)

Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDP Address

PDP Address

PDS

Packet Data Session

PDSN

Packet Data Serving Node

PES

PSTN Emulation Subsystem

PFS

Perfect Forward Secrecy

Photonics

Photonics

PHS

Personal Handyphone System

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