CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier)

A local exchange carrier (LEC), i.e., carrier provid-

ing local telephone service, in competition with the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). See also carrier, ILEC, and LEC.

• four-wave mixing (FWM)
• four-wire circuit
• FPLMTS (Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System)
• fps (frames per second)
• fractal
• fractal transform
• fractional T1 (FT1)
• FRAD (Frame Relay Access Device or Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler)
• fragmentation
• fragmentation
• fragmentation
• fragment-free switch
• frame
• Frame
• Frame
• Frame
• Frame
• Frame-based ATM Transport over Ethernet (FATE)
• frame check sequence (FCS)
• Framed ATM over SONET/SDH Transport (FAST)
• frame rate
• frame relay
• frame relay access device (FRAD)
• frame relay assembler/disassembler (FRAD)
• frame relay assembler/disassembler (FRAD)