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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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SGW

Security Gateway

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SGW-C

Serving Gateway Control plane function

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SGW-U

Serving Gateway User plane function

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SHA1

Secure Hashing Algorithm 1

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Shannon's law

Shannon's law

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Shared Secret

Shared Secret

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Shareware

Shareware

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SHCCH

Shared Channel Control Channel

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SHF

Super High Frequency

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SI

Stall Indicator

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SI-RNTI

System Information

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SIB

Service Independent Building Block

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SIB

System Information Block

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SIB1-BR

SIB1 Bandwidth Reduced

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SID

Silence Descriptor

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Sidelink

Sidelink

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SIDF

Subscriber Identity De-concealing Function

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SIF

Service Information Field

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SIFS

Short Interframe Space

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SIG

Special Interest Group

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SIG

SS7 to IP Gateway

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SigComp

Signalling Compression

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Sigfox

Sigfox

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Signal processing gain

Signal processing gain

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