Acronyms in the Telecommunication Network
aGW Access Gateway (MME GW, S-GW, ASN GW)
ASN GW Access Service Network - GateWay
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BFD Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BS Base Station
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BW Bandwidth
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CE Customer Edge
CSG Cell Site Gateway
ECMP Equal Cost Multi-Path
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EPC Evolved Packet Core
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GRE Generic Router Encapsulation
HSPA High Speed Packet Access
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IP Internet Protocol
ITU-T International Telecommunication Union - Telecom
LDP Label Distribution Protocol
LSP Label Switched Path
LTE Long Term Evolution
MASG Mobile Aggregation Site Gateway
MEF Metro Ethernet Forum
MME Mobility Management Entity
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching
MS-PW Multi-segment Pseudowire
OAM Operations, Administration and Management
P Provider
PE Provider Edge
POS Packet over SONET / SDH
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PSC Packet Switch Capable
PSN Packet Switched Network
PW Pseudowire
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network
RC Radio Controller (e.g. BSC, RNC)
RFC Request for Comments
RNC Radio Network Controller
RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering Extensions
S-GW Serving – Gateway
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork
S-PE Switching PE
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TE Traffic Engineering
TNL Transport Network Layer
T-PE Terminating PE
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNI User-to-Network Interface
VCCV Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification
VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPWS Virtual Private Wire Service
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
ASN GW Access Service Network - GateWay
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BFD Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BS Base Station
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BW Bandwidth
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CE Customer Edge
CSG Cell Site Gateway
ECMP Equal Cost Multi-Path
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EPC Evolved Packet Core
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GRE Generic Router Encapsulation
HSPA High Speed Packet Access
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IP Internet Protocol
ITU-T International Telecommunication Union - Telecom
LDP Label Distribution Protocol
LSP Label Switched Path
LTE Long Term Evolution
MASG Mobile Aggregation Site Gateway
MEF Metro Ethernet Forum
MME Mobility Management Entity
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching
MS-PW Multi-segment Pseudowire
OAM Operations, Administration and Management
P Provider
PE Provider Edge
POS Packet over SONET / SDH
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PSC Packet Switch Capable
PSN Packet Switched Network
PW Pseudowire
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network
RC Radio Controller (e.g. BSC, RNC)
RFC Request for Comments
RNC Radio Network Controller
RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering Extensions
S-GW Serving – Gateway
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork
S-PE Switching PE
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TE Traffic Engineering
TNL Transport Network Layer
T-PE Terminating PE
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNI User-to-Network Interface
VCCV Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification
VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPWS Virtual Private Wire Service
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access