电信专业英英词典F-3_电脑电信

　补充：

　faq - an acronym for frequently asked questions. faqs are online documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject.

　federal excise tax - a 3% tax mandated by the federal government imposed on all telecommunications services including local, long distance and wireless bills.

　federal subscriber line charge - this is a charge paid by consumers implemented by the federal communications commission (fcc). it is intended to recover some of the costs associated with a customer's local telephone line to access the interstate long distance network. it helps keep interstate long distance rates low. you pay this charge whether or not you actually make long distance calls.

　fcc - federal communications commission. a united states government board made up of five presidential appointees that has the authority to regulate interstate telecommunications, as well as international communications that originate or terminate in the u.s.

　file transfer protocol (ftp) - a common method for sending and/or receiving files between internet sites using a login system. publicly accessed ftp sites are often called anonymous ftps.

　firewall - a combination of hardware and software used to separate a lan into two separate parts for security reasons.

　frequency - a certain "size" of radio wave: the rate at which the electric and magnetic fields of a radio wave vibrate per second.

　fttp (fiber to the premises) - a fiber-optic network that connects directly from the carrier network to the user premises. another fiber-optic network is fttc (fiber to the curb) that connects from the carrier network to the curb, and from there to the premises by copper wire or coaxial cable.

　facilities based private switched network services

　facilities based private switched network services is a private network for which lecs and ixcs dedicate physical switching and transmission facilities for the exclusive use of a particular customer.

　fast packet

　fast packet is a term referring to a number of broadband switching and networking paradigms. implicit is the assumption of an operating environment that includes reliable, digital, broadband, nearly error free transmission system.

　fcc federal communications commission

　the fcc is a board of commissioners empowered by the u.s. congress to regulate all interstate and international communications, as well as use of the radio frequency media.

　fddi

　fiber-distributed data interface

　fdl

　facility data link

　fdm

　frequency division multiplexing

　fep

　front-end processor

　fips

　federal information processing standard

　foreign exchange (fx)

　fx is a service that provides a circuit(s) between a user station, a pbx, or a centrex switch, and a central office other than the one that normally serves the caller.