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The part of the mobile phone network that carries the traffic for the radio access network
What is the core network?
The scarcity of spectra led to this type of network's creation
What is a cellular network?
In a cellular network, the coverage area is divided into these
What are cells?
The year in which the first generation of mobile phone networks began
What is 1982?
The name of the US's first generation phone system
What is AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System)?
Another name for connection-oriented subnets
What are circuit networks?
The primary advantage of circuit networks over packet networks
What is quality?
These components of the UMTS network are used for circuit switching (There are 3 of them)
What are MSC (Mobile Switching Center), GMSC (Gateway Mobile Switching Center), and MGW (Media Gateway)?
The two main services provided by 3G networks
What are voice and broadband?
The year in which the third generation of mobile phone networks began
What is 2001?
This component of cellular networks controls how the spectrum is used
What is the controller node/RNC (Radio Network Controller)?
The year in which the second generation of mobile phone networks began
What is 1991?
This person has been an absolute champion, rock, and inspiration through the past months through their indomitable will and undeniable badassery
Who is the marvelous, fantastic, fabulous, amazing Chidinma Igwe?
The primary advantage of packet networks over circuit networks
What is reliability?
Older mobile phone networks used a core based on this kind of switching
What is circuit-switching?
The most widely used 2G system
What is GSM (Global System for Mobile communications)?
Network operators submit bids for government-issued radio spectrum licenses in a procedure known as this
What is a spectrum auction?
The main 3G system deployed worldwide
What is UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System)/WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access)?
Another name for the base station in a cellular network
What is Node B?
The fancy name for the radio communication protocol that is used between the mobile device and the cellular base station
What is the air interface?
The name for when the same spectrum can be used by two users in different cells
What is frequency reuse?
The cellular base station together with its controller forms this
What is the radio access network?
Another name for connectionless subnets
What are packet networks?
The main scarce resource in mobile networks
What is radio spectrum?
The protocol on which the UMTS air interface is based
What is CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)?