End-to-end

Enhanced 9-1-1

An E9-1-1 System Service Provider (E911SSP), is typically but not always an ILEC, and provides systems and support necessary to enable 9-1-1 calling for a single or group of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). In relation to the jurisdictional boundary of the PSAP and the system provider’s scope of authority, this includes:

A method of interconnection for all telecommunications providers… (Read More →)

Emergency Alert Notification

Extensible Authentication Protocol

Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching

See ground.

In satellite communications, the coverage that occurs when the satellite-to-Earth beam is sufficiently wide to cover all of the surface of the Earth exposed to the satellite, i.e., the footprint is as large as it can possibly be from a geographic standpoint.

A network of electrically interconnected rods, plates, mats, or grids, installed and connected, for the purpose of establishing a low-resistance contact with earth.

A radiocommunication service between Earth stations and one or more space stations, which may include links between space stations, in which: information relating to the characteristics of the Earth and its natural phenomena is obtained from active sensors or passive sensors on Earth satellites;
similar information is collected from airborne or Earth-based platforms;
such information may be distributed to Earth… (Read More →)