Acronym
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Choice: NA or NC
or NT
NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement
NAMPS - Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone
System - NAMPS combines cellular voice processing with digital signaling,
increasing the capacity of AMPS systems and adding functionality
NANC - North American Numbering Council
- the FCC advisory group responsible for administering the North
American Numbering Plan that oversees the assignment of area codes,
central office codes, and other numbering issues in the United States,
Canada, Bermuda and part of the Caribbean
NAPA - National Academy of Public Administration
Narrowband PCS - the next generation
of paging networks, including two-way, acknowledgement and wireless
answering machine paging
NBC - Non-Backwards Compatible
NBT - NetBIOS over TCP/IP
NCTA - National Cable Television Association
- Cable's largest trade association which provides its members with
a single, unified voice on issues affecting the industry. www.ncta.com
NetBIOS - Network Basic Input/Output System
NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
NIMBY - Not in My Backyard - the sentiment of citizens opposing
the nearby placement of undesirable facilities such as antenna towers
or waste dumps
NOC - Network Operations Center
NOCC - Network Operations Control Center
NSDI - National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSPs - Network Service Providers
NT - New Technology
NTIA - National Telecommunincations and Information Administration
- the Federal government's authority on spectrum management. www.ntia.doc.gov
NTSC - National Television Standards Committee - responsible for
setting TV/video standards in the United States - defines a composite
video signal with a refresh rate of 60 half-frames per second
NURBS - Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline - mathematical representation
of a 3-dimensional object
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