Category: Technology
Company: Gartner
Created by: consultant
Number of Blossarys: 2
English (EN)Within a mobile radio system, a base station is a fixed radio station providing communication with mobile stations and, where applicable, with other base stations and the public telephone network.
A base station controller (BSC) is a network element that controls and monitors a number of base stations and provides the interface between the cell sites and the mobile switching center (MSC).
A base transceiver station (BTS) is a fixed radio transceiver in any mobile network. The BTS connects mobile devices to the network. It sends and receives radio signals to mobile devices and converts ...
Baseband is the transmission of a signal in its original, unmodulated form. A baseband signal can be analog (e.g., originating from a telephone) or digital (e.g., originating from a computer).
The basic input/output system (BIOS) is the part of an operating system that links the specific hardware devices to the software. It obtains the buffers required to send information from a program to ...
Basic trading area (BTA) is a geographic area designation that was used for the allocation of 800MHz cellular licenses to mobile service providers in the U.S., which determines where they can ...
Batch processing is the processing of application programs and their data individually, with one being completed before the next is started. It is a planned processing procedure typically used for ...
