| Facilities |
Cables, poles, conduit, microwave, or carrier equipment, central office distributing
frames, central office switching equipment, computers (both hardware and software),
business machines, etc., used by a service provider to provide telecommunications services.
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| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | A federal government agency authorized by the Communications Act of 1934 to
regulate interstate and international telecommunications originating in the
United States. The FCC plays a role in implementing the Telecommunications
Act of 1996.
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| Fiber Optics | Communications technology that uses thin filaments of glass or other transparent
materials. Fiber optic technology offers extremely high transmission speeds,
allowing for data-intensive services such as video on demand.
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| Frame Relay | High-performance interface or packet-switched
networks. Considered more efficient than X.25 (which
it is expected to replace). Frame relay technology can handle "bursty"
communications that have rapidly changing bandwidth
requirements.
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