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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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CID

Charging Identity

CIDR

Classless Inter Domain Routing

CINR

Carrier to Interference plus Noise Ratio

CIoT

Cellular Internet of Things

Ciphertext

Ciphertext

CIR

Committed Information Rate

Circuit Switching

Circuit Switching

CK

Cipher Key

CKSN

Cipher Key Sequence Number

Class A Terminal

Class A Terminal

Class B Terminal

Class B Terminal

Class C Terminal

Class C Terminal

Classmark

Classmark

CLI

Calling Line Identity

CLID

Calling Line Identification

Client

Client

CLIP

Connected Line Identification Presentation

CLIR

Connected Line Identification Restriction

CLK

Clock

CLKE

Clock Estimate

CLKN

Clock Native

Closest Match Routing

Closest Match Routing

CLP

Cell Loss Priority

CM

Connection Management

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