Mobile Telephone Switching Office. An office housing switches and computers to which all cell sites in an area are connected for the purpose of eventual connection to the PSTN. The MTSO handles the co [..]

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standard for wireless local area network interoperability.

The next generation of wireless technology beyond personal communications services. The World Administrative Radio Conference assigned 230 megahertz of spectrum at 2 GHz for multimedia 3G networks. Th [..]

ACID is an acronym and mnemonic device for learning and remembering the four primary attributes ensured to any transaction by a transaction manager (which is also called a transaction monitor). These [..]

ActiveX is the name Microsoft has given to a set of "strategic" COM-based object-oriented program technologies and tools.

Analog-to-digital conversion is an electronic process in which a continuously variable (analog) signal is changed, without altering its essential content, into a multi-level (digital) signal.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. A technology for transmitting digital information at high bandwidths on existing phone lines to homes and businesses.

The standard operating system of a wireless network; technologies include AMPS, TDMA, CDMA and GSM.

A procedure or formula for solving a problem.