USTA (United States Telecom Association)

A trade association of United States telecommunica-

tions carriers and suppliers, the USTA lobbies Congress, regulatory agencies, and other policy makers on behalf of its membership. USTA has its roots in the National Telephone Association (1897), which later changed its name to the United States Independent Telephone Association (USITA) and represented the interests of independent (i.e., non-Bell) telephone companies.When the break-up of the Bell System was decided in 1982, USITA admitted the newly divested Baby Bells as full members and changed its name to USTA. See Appendix A for contact information.

• network element (NE)
• network interface card (NIC)
• network interface device (NID)
• network interface unit (NIU)
• Network Layer
• network management
• network management system (NMS)
• network (net)
• network neutrality
• network operating system (NOS)
• network operations center (NOC)
• network optimization
• Network Termination 1 (NT1)
• Network Termination 2 (NT2)
• Network Termination (NT)
• network-to-network interface (NNI)
• network topology
• NeuStar
• newb ( newbie)
• newsgroup
• newton (N)
• Next Generation Internet (NGI)
• Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
• NEXT (Near-End CROSS Talk)
• NFAS (Non-Facility Associated Signaling)