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Revenue Anticipation Note (RAN)

A short-term municipal debt issue that will be repaid with anticipated revenues, such as sales taxes, from the project.

Revenue Anticipation Note

A municipal bond, with a maturity of one year or less, that is repaid to bondholders with expected revenues from the project the RAN intends to finance. For example, a city may issue an RAN to finance improvements to the local museum. It expects to be able to pay back the bond with money raised on increased ticket sales at the museum after improvements are completed.

RAN

See revenue anticipation note.

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Not any rate is realizable by the radio access network. Typically, a number J of pre-defined formats are defined, each with a specific rate [r.sub.j], j = 1, ..., J.

Enhanced modeling of UMTS radio access network functionality

"The new CommProve deployment will extend the capabilities of Cell C's existing solution to provide IuB interface monitoring and Radio Access Network Insight.

Cell C and CommProve extend partnership

The latest version runs under Motorola's Linux operating system within the recently introduced HXP chassis and offers on-board Ethernet/ATM and H.110 interfaces to provide connectivity to the UMTS radio access network (UTRAN) and the public switched telephone network (PSTN) as well as to IP-based public land mobile networks (PLMN).

Motorola unveils new version of FACT software

Pivotal Commware, inventor of Holographic Beam Forming[R] (HBF), has announced the company has joined the O-RAN Alliance, a carrier-led collaboration aimed at driving openness in the radio access network (RAN) of next generation wireless systems, the company said.

Pivotal Commware allies with O-RAN Alliance

ASOCS Ltd., a pioneer in Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization, has joined the Cisco-led Open vRAN ecosystem aiming to accelerate the viability and adoption of Open vRAN solutions, the company said.

ASOCS to accelerate adoption of open vRAN solutions

Huawei was awarded 50% of the radio network and 100% of the core and value added services networks, while Alcatel-Lucent was awarded the other 50% of the radio access network.

Mobilink to upgrade mobile network

Nokia Siemens, which is a 50/50 joint venture of Finnish Nokia Oyj (HEL: NOK1V) and German Siemens AG (FRA: SIE), is deploying its Single Radio Access Network (Single RAN) platform, which serves a variety of wireless access technologies by using the same Flexi Multiradio base station.

Nokia Siemens gets 3G network expansion order in UK

The UTRAN radio network (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) will be entrusted to Siemens, France's Alcatel and Sweden's Ericsson group, according to a statement from TMN.

SIEMENS, ALCATEL AND ERICSSON CHOSEN FOR PORTUGUESE UMTS NETWORK

The xRAN Forum has announced its intent to merge with the C-RAN Alliance to form a world-wide, carrier-led effort to drive new levels of openness in the radio access network of next-generation wireless systems, the company said.

xRAN Forum, C-RAN Alliance to form ORAN Alliance

The services will be based on the Nokia Siemens Networks single radio access network (RAN) technology and LTE-capable Flexi Multiradio base station.