A full form is the detailed name of an abbreviation. The abbreviation is good for easy to remember, same time full form is to know its meaning. Here we will cover the most popular full forms related to the telecom network. In telecom, most of the terms are used with abbreviations. E.g SMS, the full form of SMS is a short message service. But all the time we use SMS. As a network engineer or programmer, we should know the full form to understand a telecom term better.
Abbreviation |
Full form |
| IMSI | International Mobile Subscriber Identity |
| LTE | Long Term Evolution |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| VoIP | Voice Over IP |
| RTP | Real-Time Transport Protocol |
| SS7 | Signaling System 7 |
| MVNO | Mobile Virtual Network Operator |
| MNO | Mobile Network Operator |
| MSC | Mobile Switching Centre. |
| IVR | Interactive Voice Response |
| VoLTE | Voice Over LTE |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| PSTN | A public switched telephone network |
| SIM | Subscriber Identity Module |
| WCDMA | Wideband Code Division Multiplexing Access |
| HSPA | High-Speed Packet Access |
| HSDPA | High-Speed Downlink Packet Access |
| HSUPA | |
| UMTS | |
| EPBX | |
| URL | |
| HTTP and HTTPS | |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |