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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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NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NMT

Nordic Mobile Telephony

NST

Network Slice Template

NT

Non Transparent

NTP

Network Time Protocol

NTU

Network Termination Unit

Null Traffic Channel Data

Null Traffic Channel Data

Nyquist Theorem

Nyquist Theorem

Object

Object

OFTEL

Office of Telecommunications

OLT

Optical Line Termination

Optical Budget

Optical Budget

OTD

Orthogonal Transmit Diversity

OTDOA

Observed Time Difference On Arrival

OTI

Originating Transaction Identifier

OTN

Optical Transport Network

OTT

Over The Top

Out of Band Signalling

Out of Band Signalling

Overlay Network

Overlay Network

P-RNTI

Paging

P-TMSI

Packet - Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

Packet

Packet

Packet error Ratio

Packet error Ratio

Packet Filtering

Packet Filtering

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