1. A functional component that may be used most efficiently when accessed locally.
2. An intelligent-network feature that provides specialized telecommunication capabilities required by IN/2 service logic programs.

For voice communications, the capability of being understood.
Note: Intelligibility does not imply the recognition of a particular voice.

Crosstalk from which information can be derived.

Abbreviation for International Telecommunications Satellite Organization. [47 CFR
0. 453]

The square of the electric field strength of an electromagnetic wave.
Note: Intensity is proportional to irradiance and may be used in place of the term "irradiance" when only relative values are important.

In optical communications, a form of modulation in which the optical power output of a source is varied in accordance with some characteristic of the modulating signal.
Note: In intensity modulation, there are no discrete upper and lower sidebands in the usually understood sense of these terms, because present optical sources lack sufficient coherence to produce them. The envelope of… (Read More →)

1. Between local access and transport areas (LATAs).
2. Services, revenues, and functions associated with telecommunications that originate in one LATA and that terminate in another one or that terminate outside of that LATA.

A radiocommunication service providing links between artificial Earth satellites. [NTIA] [RR] [47CFR]

Crosstalk caused by coupling between carrier and noncarrier circuits.
Note: If the interaction crosstalk is, in turn, coupled to another carrier circuit, that crosstalk is called "indexing. "

Pertaining to a communications environment in which more than one party is equipped and ready to participate actively in a session or a protocol. [After X9.42]
Note: Common usage of the term refers to a session where at least one of the parties is human and another of the parties is a software application.