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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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Received Signal Code Power

Received Signal Code Power

Recipient network

Recipient network

Reverse Power Control Subchannel

Reverse Power Control Subchannel

RTWP

Received Total Wideband Power

S-GW

Serving Gateway

Search Window

Search Window

Search Window Offset

Search Window Offset

SEGW

Security Gateway

Service Provider Network

Service Provider Network

Serving Network

Serving Network

SGw

Signalling Gateway

SGW

Security Gateway

SGW-C

Serving Gateway Control plane function

SGW-U

Serving Gateway User plane function

Shannon's law

Shannon's law

Shareware

Shareware

Sky wave

Sky wave

Standing wave

Standing wave

Store-and-forward

Store-and-forward

Surface wave

Surface wave

Surface Web

Surface Web

Switch

PSTN Telephony Switch

SwMI

Switching and Management Infrastructure

SWP

Single Wire Protocol

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