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3G—Third-generation technology in the context of mobile phone.technology. The services associated with 3G include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data within a mobile environment.
3GPP—Third-Generation Partnership Project.
3GPP2—Third-Generation Partnership Project 2.
ACL—Access Control Lists.
BTS—Base Transceiver Station.
CDMA—Code Division Multiple Access.
CDMA2000—Hybrid 2.5G/3G protocol of mobile telecommunications standards that use CDMA, a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data, and signaling data (such as a dialed telephone number) between mobile phones and cell sites. CDMA2000 is considered a 2.5G protocol in 1xRTT and a 3G protocol in EVDO.
CHAP— Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol.
EDGE—Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) or Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS).
EVDO—Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only.
GGSN—Gateway GPRS support node.
GPRS— General Packet Radio Service.
GSM—Global System for Mobile Communications.
HA—Home Agent.
HSDPA—High-Speed Downlink Packet Access or High-Speed Downlink Protocol Access.
HWIC—High-Speed WAN Interface Card.
IPCP— IP Control Protocol.
MIP—Mobile Internet Protocol.
NAI—Network Address Identifier.
PCF—Packet Control Function.
PDP—Packet Data Protocol.
PDSN— Packet Data Serving Node.
PPP—Point-to-Point Protocol.
PSTN—Public Switched Telephone Network.
QoS—Quality of Service.
RAN—Radio Access Network.
SGSN—Serving GPRS Support Node.
SIM—Subscriber Identity Module.
SIP—Simple Internet Protocol.
SMB—Small-to-Medium Business.
UMTS—Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is one of the 3G mobile phone technologies.
WCDMA—Wideband Code Division Multiple Access.
Wi-Fi—Wireless Fidelity.