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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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Plaintext

Plaintext

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POC Client

POC Client

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Point to Multipoint

Point to Multipoint

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Point-to-Point

Point-to-Point

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Port Number

Port Number

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POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

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Power Control Bit

Power Control Bit

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Power Down Registration

Power Down Registration

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Power Up Registration

Power Up Registration

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PPTP

Point

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Primitive

Primitive

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Private Key

Private Key

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Proactive SIM

Proactive SIM

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Propagation Delay

Propagation Delay

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Protection Switching

Protection Switching

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Protocol

Protocol

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Protocol Stack

Protocol Stack

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PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

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PTCCH

Packet Timing Control Channel

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PTI

Procedure Transaction Identity

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PTP

Precision Time Protocol

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PTT

Push to Talk

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Qhyst

Qhyst

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Qoffset

Qoffset

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