Groupe Spéciale Mobile (GSM)

Translates from French into Special Mobile Group. Now Global Sys-

tem for Mobile Communications (GSM), the original name derives from the Groupe Spéciale Mobile (GSM) formed in 1982 by the Confederation of European Posts and Telecommunications (CEPT) to design a pan-European cellular radio technology. See also cellular radio, CEPT, and GSM.

• pizza box
• PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
• PKM (Privacy Key Management)
• plain old telephone service (POTS)
• plain text
• plastic optical fiber (POF)
• platform independent
• PLB (Personal Locator Beacon)
• PLC (PowerLine Carrier)
• plenum
• plenum cable
• plesiochronous
• plesiochronous
• Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
• Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
• PLP (Packet Layer Protocol)
• plug
• Plug and Play (PnP)
• plug ’n’ play (plug and play)
• PM
• PMD (Polarization Mode Dispersion)
• PMI (Property Management Interface)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• PNNI
• PnP (Plug and Play)