Acronym
Acronym
3GPP 3PNEM
Description
3rd Generation Partnership Project 3rd Party Network Element Manager
A
AAA AAL5
Steady-state availability
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Server ATM Adaptation Layer Type 5
ACU
ADMF API
APN
ATM
BAM
BG
BNET BPL
BSSGP
CDR CG CGF
CGF CGI CK CN CNEOMI
CommHub Communication Hub CompactPCI Compact PCI COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf CPU Central Processing Unit
CS CSD Circuit Switched Circuit Switched Domain
Dispatch time: time to detect fault, locate craft & spare parts, and dispatch craft. Cisco Dynamic Feedback Protocol Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Domain Name Server Domain Name Service/Server
Domain Name Server
DPM DRP
DS DSCP
E1
EDGE
FE FRU
FTP FW
Ga Gb Gd Ge GGSN
GGSN
Interface between C-SGSN and CGF. Interface between C-SGSN and PCU. Interface between C-SGSN and SMS-GMSC/SMS-IWMSC. Interface between C-SGSN and CAMEL/GSM-SCF. Gateway GPRS Support Node
Gateway GPRS Support Node
Gn Gp GPRS
GPRS
Interface between C-SGSN and GGSN. Interface between C-SGSN and external PLMN. General Packet Radio System
General Packet Radio Service
Gr Gs
GSM
Interface between C-SGSN and HLR. Interface between C-SGSN and MSC/VLR.
Global System for Mobile communications
GSN GSN
GSN
GTP
GTP GTP-C GTP-U HA HLR
Hot Standby Routing Protocol HyperText Markup Language CommHub Hardware Input/Output
Intrusion Detection System Information Element Internet Engineering Task Force Integrity Key Inverse Multiplex ATM International Mobile station Equipment Identity International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IOS
IP
IPSec
IPv4
ISA
ISDN
ISS
LA LEA LIAN
LPU MCG MM
MNEM
MP MPU MRM MS
MS MSISDN
Midplane Main Processing Unit Markov Reward Model Mobile Station (= TE + MT)
Mobile Station Mobile Station International ISDN Number
N+M
Mobile Termination Mean Time To Failure Mean Time To Repair Notation for Active/Active redundancy where N active units are provisioned for capacity and M active units are provisioned for redundancy. Notation for Active/Standby redundancy where N active units are provisioned for capacity and M standby units are provisioned for redundancy.
Network Address Translator Network Equipment Building System
NAT NEBS
Networking Processing Unit Network Processing Engine Network Services Engine Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
Operations and Maintenance
OIR OMC-G
OMC-R OMC-S
Online Insertion and Removal Operation and Maintenance Center for GPRS
Operations and Maintenance Center - Radio Operations and Maintenance Center - Switch
OMC-S/T
OMC-U
OS
OSA OSS
Operating System
Open Service Architecture Operations Support Systems
PA PCI
PCU
PDN PDP PDU
PLMN PMC
PPP PS PSA PSD PSE
Processor Service Module, used to refer to either PSM0, PSM1 or PMC2 Processor Service Module 0 Processor Service Module 1 Processor Service Module 2 Public Switched Telephone Network
Public Switched Telephone Network
R R&A
RA
Repair time. (Time to repair equipment, once on site.) Reliability and Availability
Routing Area
RAID RAM
RANAP
RBD RCU
RDB RF RNC RNS
RQMS
RQMS RRC SCCP
SDRAM
SFRAS
SGSN
SIP
SM
SMG SNMP
Section Management
Special Mobile Group Simple Network Management Protocol
SPOF SPU
SRNC
SS7
SUMI
SW T TE TM
TS
Software Travel time. (Time to travel to site. T=0 for staffed site.) Terminal Equipment Transition Module
Technical Specification
PSM Auxiliary Control Unit. Companion bridge board to URCU. PSM Back Interface Unit. Transition module used by URCU. PSU Back Storage Unit. Transition module with disk used by UOMU and UCDR. PSM Charging Data Record processor board.
User Datagram Protocol User Equipment UMTS Encryption Algorithm UMTS Integrity Algorithm Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
USP USPU
UTRAN VHE
UMTS System Product PSM SS7 Processing Unit. Processes SS7 protocol.
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network Virtual Home Environment
VLR VPD
VPN
Visitors Location Register Virtual Product Data. (Data in Flash memory defining personality of boards.)
Virtual Private Network