LAN

Local Area Network.

ME

Mobile Equipment.

MO

Mobile Origination. For example, an SMS message sent from a mobile terminal.

MMI

Man-Machine Interface.

MS

Mobile Station.

MT

Mobile Termination.

PC

Personal Computer.

PCS

Personal Communications Services, often used to describe GSM1900 networks.

PC Card

A card having physical and electrical characteristics specified by PCMCIA providing extra functionality when inserted into a laptop PC. Typical examples are modems and network cards. Type refers to the thickness of the card. The EDGE PC Card is type II.

PCMCIA

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association – defines specifications for PC Cards. www.pcmcia.org.

PDP

Packet Data Protocol.

Phone book

A memory in the SIM card where phone numbers can be stored and accessed by name or position.

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network, for example ordinary analogue phone line for speech and/or computer modem.

RADIUS

Remote Access Dial-In Service. Facility at the ISP or corporation to manage remote data connections.

RX

Receive

SC

Service Centre (for SMS).

Service Provider

A company that provides services and subscriptions to EDGE PC Card users.

SIM card

Subscriber Identity Module card – a card that must be inserted in any GSM-based mobile terminal. It contains subscriber details, security information and memory for a personal directory of numbers. The card can be a small plug-in type or credit card-sized, but both types have the same functions. The EDGE PC Card uses the small plug- in card.

SMS

Short Message Service. Allows messages of up to 160 characters to be sent and received via the network operator's message centre to a EDGE PC Card.

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

TCP/IPv4

TCP/IP Version 4. Most widely implemented form of TCP/IP today having a 4 byte address format such as 212.161.127.136.

TE

Terminal Equipment. Generic term for GSM terminals such as phones and PC cards.

Terminal Adaptor

Generic term for the equipment terminating a digital comms line such as an ISDN2 line. The EDGE PC Card is a Terminal Adaptor since it interfaces to GSM digital data services.

TLS

Transport Layer Security. Used by Web browsers, for example.

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