IEC

1. International Electrotechnical Commission.The IEC was formed in 1904 with the objective of standardizing the nomenclature and ratings of electrical apparatus and machinery. Among its accomplish-ments are the development of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary and the Système international d’unités (SI). See Appendix A for contact information. See also SI. 2. InterExchange Carrier. See IXC.

• common battery
• common battery
• common carrier
• Common Carrier Line Charge (CCLC)
• common channel signaling (CCS)
• Common Channel Signaling System 7 (CCS7)
• common control
• Common Intermediate Format (CIF)
• Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM)
• communication manager
• Communications Act of 1934
• Communications Act of 1962
• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
• Communications Decency Act (CDA)
• communications software
• community antenna television (CATV)
• Compact HTML (C-HTML)
• compaction
• companding (compressing/expanding)
• Companies (RBOCs)
• compatible
• Competitive Access Provider (CAP)
• competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC)
• complementary code keying (CCK)
• Compressed SLIP (CSLIP)