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BT glossary This glossary is here to help you understand some of the acronyms you may encounter in this site. Select a letter below that your word begins with. ! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.
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Abbreviation	Term	Definition
	Radio	Mesh radio is a high capacity wireless network where information is received and transmitted at broadband speeds via an antenna at your home or office.
RF ! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Radio frequency	Describes the portion of the spectrum used to transmit radio signals. Often used adjectivally.
RFI ! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Radio frequency interference	A characteristic by which signals radiated from one system cause misoperation of another.
! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Radiopaging	See Paging.
RISC ! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Reduced Instruction-Set Computer/Computing	Compared to CISC processors, RISC chips have smaller, but more, instructions that execute faster. A snag is that they need more memory. See also CISC.
RBOC ! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Regional Bell operating company	One of the companies providing local telephone service in the USA, created by the divestiture of the old AT&T organisation.
RSA ! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Rivest, Shamir and Adleman	An asymmetric encryption technique, named after its inventors Rivest, Shamir and Adleman. Based on the assumption that the factoring of the product of two large prime numbers is very difficult.
! Empty <p> tag. Remove the empty <p> tag or add some content.	Router	A modem capable of providing service to more than one computer in your home or office.