Access Charges Advanced Intelligent Network Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking Advanced Program-to-Program Communications Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service Alliance for Telecommunciations Industry Solutions Amateur Radio Service American National Standards Institute American Registry for Internet Numbers American Standard Code for Information Intercharge Analog Line Impairment Testing Announcement Services Application Service Providers Area Codes ARCNet Asset Management Asynchronous Communication Asynchronous Transfer Mode Attenuation Automatic Call Distributors Automatic Number Identification Bandwidth Management Systems Bell Labs Bellcore (now known as Telcordia Technologies) Bluetooth Bridges Building Local Exchange Carriers Business Process Reengineering Cable Telephony Cable Television Networks Call Centers Call Detail Reporting Caller Identification Calling Cards Calling Party Pays Carnivore Carrier Collocation Carterfone Decision Cellular Data Communications Cellular Telephones Cellular Voice Communications
Central Office Switches Centrex Channel Banks Channel Service Units Citizens Band Radio Service Clearinghouse Services Client-Server Networks Closed Captioning Code Division Multiple Access Collocation Arrangements for Businesses Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act Communications Services Management Community Notification Systems Competitive Local Exchange Carriers Computer-Telephony Integration Content Delivery Networks Contingency Planning Cordless Telecommunications Cross Talk Custom Local Area Signalling Services Cyber Crime Data Compression Data Service Units Data Switches Data Warehouses Decibel Dialing Party Digital Cross-Connect Systems Digital Data Services Digital Divide Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications Digital Loop Carrier Systems Digital Signatures Digital Subscriber Line Technologies Direct Broadcast Satellite Directory Assistance--411 Distance Learning Domain Name System Dominant Carrier Status Downsizing Echo Cancellation
Electronic Commerce Electronic Data Interchange Electronic Mail Electronic Software Distribution Emergency Alert System Emergency Service--911 Ethernet (10BaseT) Ethernet (100BaseT) Ethernet (1000BaseT) Extranets Facsimile Family Radio Service Federal Communications Commission Federal Telecommunications System Fiber Distributed Data Interface Fiber in the Loop Fiber Optic Technology Fibre Channel Firewalls Fixed Wireless Access Frame Relay Frequency Division Multiple Access Gateways General Mobile Radio Service Generic Digital Services Global Positioning System Global System for Mobile (GSM) Telecommunications Help Desks Hertz Hierarchical Storage Management High-Definition Television High-Level Data Link Control Home Phone-Line Networking Hubs Hybrid Fiber/Coax Hyper Text Markup Language i-mode Incumbant Local Exchange Carriers Infiniband Infrared Networking
Inside Cable Wiring Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Integrated Access Devices Integrated Services Digital Network Interactive Television Interactive Video and Data Service Interactive Voice Response Interexchange Carriers International Callback Service International Common Carriers International Electrotechnical Commission International Interexchange Programs International Mobile Telecommunications International Organization for Standardization Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Facsimile Internet Service Providers Internet Telephony Intranets Inverse Multiplexers Java Jitter Key Telephone Systems Kiosks LAN Telephony LAN Switching Latency Leasing Lifeline Service Line Conditioning Local Access and Transport Areas Local Exchange Carriers Local Loop Local Multipoint Distribution Service Local Telecommunications Charges Local Telecommunications Portability Long Distance Telecommunications Charges Low-Power FM Radio Service Low-Power Radio Service Managed SNA Services Media Converters Microwave Communications
Modems Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service Multimedia Networking Multiplexers Multiprotocal Label Switching Multiprotocol Lambda Switching Multiservice Networking National Telecommunications and Information Administration Network Agents Network Backup Network Computing Network Design Tools Network Directory Services Network Drawing Tools Network Integration Network Interface Cards Network Management Systems Network Operations Center Network Restoral Network Security Network Statistics Network Support Object-Oriented Networks Online Analytical Processing Open Network Architecture Open Systems Interconnection Operations Support Systems Operator Language Translation Services Outsourcing Packet-Switched Network--X 25Paging Passive Optical Networks Pay-per-Call Services PCS 1900 Peer-to-peer networks Performance Baselining Personal Access Communications Systems Personal Air Communications Technology Personal Communication Services Personal Digital Assistants Personal Handyphone System
Ping Point-to-Point Protocol Prepaid Phone Cards Price Caps Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge Private Branch Exchanges Private Land Mobile Radio Services Protocol Analyzers Proxy Servers Public Switched Telephone Network Public Telephone Service Public Utility Commissions Quality of Service Radio Communication Interception Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Regulatory Process Remote Control Remote Monitoring Remote Node Repeaters Request for Proposal Resilient Packet Ring Routers Rural Radiotelephone Service Satellite Communications Service Creation Environment Service Level Agreements Signaling System #7 Simple Network Management Protocol Slamming Smart Buildings Software-Defined Radio Specialized Mobile Radio Spectrum Auctions Spread Spectrum Radio StarLAN Storage Area Networks Streaming Content Subscriber Line Charges Switched Multimegabit Data Service Synchronous Communication Synchronous Data Link Control
Synchronous Optical Network Systems Network Architecture T-Carrier Facilities T1 Lines Tariffs Telecommunications Act of 1996 Telecommunications Industry Association Telecommunications Industry Mergers Telecommunications Management Network Telecommunications Management Systems Telecommunications Relay Services Telecommuting Teleconferencing Telephony Telemedicine Telemetry Telephone Telephone Access for the Disabled Telephone Fraud Telephone Subsribership Telex Thin-Client Architecture Time Division Multiple Access Token Ring Transceivers Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Truth in Billing Twisted Pair Wiring Unbundled Network Elements Unified Messaging Universal Service V-Chip Value-Added Networks Videoconferencing Video on Demand Virtual Private Networks (Data) Virtual Private Networks (Voice) Voice-Activated Dialing Voice Cloning Voice Compression Voice-Data Convergence
Voice Mail Voice over IP Wavelength Division Multiplexing Wide Area Telecommunications Service Wireless Communications Services Wireless LANs Wireless Medical Telemetry Service Workflow Automation World Trade Organization World Wide Web Acronyms Index Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.