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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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STM

Synchronous Transport Module

STM-1

Synchronous Transfer Module 1

STN-SR

Session Transfer Number for SRVCC

Store-and-forward

Store-and-forward

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair

STP

Signalling Transfer Point

STR

Session Termination Request

Stream Cipher

Stream Cipher

STS

Space Time Spreading

STUN

Simple Traversal of UDP through Network Address Translation

SU-MIMO

Single User - MIMO

SUA

SCCP User Adaptation

Sublayer

Sublayer

Subnet address

Subnet address

Subscribed QoS

Subscribed QoS

Subscriber

Subscriber

SUCI

Subscription Concealed Identifier

Superframe

Superframe

Supplemental Channel

Supplemental Channel

Supplemental Code Channel

Supplemental Code Channel

Surface wave

Surface wave

Surface Web

Surface Web

SVC

Switched Virtual Circuit

Switch

PSTN Telephony Switch

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