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Glossary of Terms

Understand basic Public Safety definitions and terms.

Micro Cell

Definition:

A cellular base station with a range of 250 meters or less. Commonly used to describe PCS cells because of their smaller
footprint compared to a cellular cell.

Erlang

Intrado : Jul 24, 2024, 3:23:03 PM

A measure of traffic intensity in a telecommunications system or network. One Erlang is one fully occupied traffic path. It is one traffic path...

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Presence

Intrado : Jul 26, 2024, 10:41:04 AM

Presence, or presence information, conveys the ability and willingness of a user to communicate with other users on a network, across a set of...

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InterLATA

Intrado : Jul 25, 2024, 11:48:58 AM

A term used to describe services, revenues, and functions that relate to telecommunications originating in one LATA and terminating in another LATA...

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