are varyingly known as user equipment (UE), terminal equipment, mobile station (MS), etc. RAN functionality is typically provided by a silicon chip residing in both the core network as well as the user equipment.See the following diagram:

     CN    /  \   /    \ RAN    RAN / \    / \UE UE  UE UE

Examples of RAN types are:
* GRAN:

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