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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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Shared Secret

Shared Secret

Shareware

Shareware

SHCCH

Shared Channel Control Channel

SHF

Super High Frequency

SI

Stall Indicator

SI-RNTI

System Information

SIB

Service Independent Building Block

SIB

System Information Block

SIB1-BR

SIB1 Bandwidth Reduced

SID

Silence Descriptor

SIDF

Subscriber Identity De-concealing Function

SIF

Service Information Field

SIFS

Short Interframe Space

SIG

Special Interest Group

SIG

SS7 to IP Gateway

SigComp

Signalling Compression

Sigfox

Sigfox

Signal processing gain

Signal processing gain

Signaling Connection

Signaling Connection

Signaling Traffic

Signaling Traffic

Signalling

Signalling

Signalling Plane

Mission Critical Signalling Plane

Sigtran

Signalling Transport