premicell & gsm: glossary of terms
sjg provides you here with a basic guide to some of the terminology & abbreviations used in the field of GSM, FCT & Premicells
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premicell & gsm: glossary of terms
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sjg provides you here with a basic guide to some of the terminology & abbreviations used in the field of GSM, FCT & Premicells
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| Term | Explanation |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line aka 'Broadband' |
| A.s.h.T.R.a.y | Receptacle used for depositing spent cigarettes & associated ash deposits - also matches |
| ASP | Application Service Provider |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor: low power logic circuit |
| CF Card | CompactFlash Card - memory storage device for palm-sized & handheld PCs, which don't have HDD |
| CODEC | Coder/Decoder |
| DDR (memory) | Double data Rate Synchronous - evolutionary technology derived from SDRAM |
| Dpi | Dots per inch - measure of output device resolution and quality - ussually regarding printers |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| EDGE | Enhanced Data through GSM Evolution (aka Evolved GSM or GSM 384) |
| EGSM | Extended GSM |
| Ethernet | The most common type of connection of computers to a LAN |
| Extranet | business to business Intranet allowing limited, controlled, secure access between a company's Intranet and designated, authenticated users from remote locations |
| GPRS | An Extension to the GSM standard to include packet data services |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSM | Groupe Special Mobile or Global Systems for Mobile Communications: the world standard for digital cellular networks that originated in Europe - operates at 900MHz, 1800MHz & 1900MHz |
| HSCSD | High Speed Circuit Switched Data is a GSM enhancement that allows several channels combined for data transmission - by combining two channels, it can increase the throughput to 19299 bits/second |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| IAP | Internet Access Provider |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| Intranet | An internal network that functions like the internet - except access must be authorised and is protected by a firewall |
| IrDA | Infrared Data Association |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network, international telecommunications standard that enables a communications channel to carry digital data simultaneously with voice & video information. |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider [eg Demon] |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| Li-lon | Lithium Ion batteries: lightweight and can be recharged multiple times |
| ME | a name i call myself |
| MMS | Multi Messaging Service |
| MMC | MultiMedia Card |
| PAN | Personal Area Network |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnection - a high performance 32-bit or 64-bit bus designed to be used with devices that have high bandwidth requirements, such as a display subsystem |
| PBX | Private Branch Exchange [aka telephone system] |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association: the body for setting the standards for the mobile computer slots that accommodate data cards, now referred to as PC Cards |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PIM | Personal Information Management |
| POS/EFT terminals | Point of Sales/Electronic Funds Transfer |
| Ppm | Pages per minute |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telecommunications Network [ie BT] |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| SATNAV | Satellite Navagation [system]: system using satellites to provide exact global position - uses GPS |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface: a fast systems-level interface which can support up to 8 devices but only uses one resource in the PC |
| SD Card | Secure Digital Card |
| SDRAM | Synchronous DRAM |
| SIM | Subscriber Identity Module: a computer chip set in a small piece of plastic that is inserted into a GSM device - it contains the information needed to identify the user and make the GSM device [ie phone] work |
| Smarphone | A phone with computing capabilities, or a PDA and mobile phone in one |
| SME | Small-to-Medium Enterprise |
| SMS | Short Message Service: a facility on GSM cellular systems to send short messages of up to 160 alphanumeric characters between compatible devices |
| SoHo | Small Office, Home office |
| SVGA | Super Video Graphs Array: the term given to video cards which can display a varying range of resolutions with different numbers of colours - the user can also adjust the refresh rate of the screen via the card settings to eliminate screen flicker |
| SyncML | Synchronisation Markup language |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - protocol used by networked computers to communicate |
| TFT | Thin Film Transistor - the active matrix LCD panel which offers the highest quality display for portable PCs - TFT can display 16 million colours at high resolutions |
| Tri-band | Specific to handsets, a tri-band cellular phone will operate on three different frequencies, depending on the available network |
| UMTS (3G) | Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus: allows up to 127 different devices to be connected to one port on the computer by utilising hubs - all the devices connected via the USB use only the one resource in the PC |
| USP | Unique Selling Point |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network - a WAN is like a LAN but bigger and unlike LANs, WANs are not limited to a single location |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol: standard for bringing advanced applications and Internet content to digital mobile telephones |
| W-CDMA | Wideband CDMA |
| Wireless LAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WTP | Wireless Transaction Protocol |
| XGA | screen resolution of 1024 x 768, now the most commonly used resolution on lappys & PCs. replaced SVGA as the current "standard" |
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