The ground-based infrastructure required for delivery of third-generation (3G) wireless communications services, including high-speed mobile access to the Internet. The RAN must be able to manage a wide range of tasks for each 3G user, including access, roaming, transparent connection to the public switched telephone network and the Internet, and Quality of Service (QoS) management for data and Web connections.
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Regional Advanced Networks. These provide connections to CANARIE’s high performance IP/ATM network, CA*netII. RIS - Radiological Information System
Regional area network. A data network that interconnects businesses, residences and governments in a specific geographic region. RANs are larger than local area networks (LANs) and metropolitan area networks (MANs), but smaller than wide area networks (WANs). RANs are usually characterized by very high-speed connections using fiber optic cable or other digital media.
Radio Access Network - The 'local loop' of a cellular network, incorporates the antennas, MBS, Node B and RNC in a 3G network.
Radio Access Network. A RAN is a network for wireless access comprising of transceivers and base station controllers connected in a radio network infrastructure excluding the core network, e.g. UTRAN (UMTS RAN) in a UMTS network.
Radio Access Network is a network station in the BGAN system.
Regional Access Node. These aggregates many DSLAM's connections and then feed the data to an ISP.