hard handoff

hard handoff definition - telecom
In cellular radio networks, a handoff process in which the connection is briefly broken by one base station (BS) before being re-established by another as a mobile station (MS) moves out of the range of the first and into the range of the second.This technique is also known as break and make. See also BS, cellular radio, MS, radio, and soft handoff.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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