g Task Force. Information Technology. (Generally refers to indus- I-ETS Interim European Telecommunicaitons Standard. tries using computers e.g. data processing.) (ETSI.) International Telegraph Alphabet. Intermediate Frequency. Information Technology Association of Canada. IFIPS International Federation of Information Processing ITAEGT Information Technology Advisory and co-ordination Societies. Expert Group on private Telecommunication net- Integrated Fibre Optic Subscriber. (System used in work standards. Japan for fibre cabling to domestic and small busi- ITANZ Information Technology Association of New Zea- nesses.) land. Acronyms 62/11 ITSTC Information Technology Steering Committee. company concerned. When they cross a LATA's (Comite de Direction de la Technologie de l'Infor- boundary, i.e. go inter-LATA, they are the responsi- mation. Consists of CEN/CENLEC/ETSI.) bility of an interexchange carrier or IEC.) International Telecommunication Union. Least Busy Alternative. (Traffic routing strategy ITUSA Information Technology User Standards Associ- defined for fully connected networks.) ation. Line Build Out. (The extension of the electrical Integrated Voice Application. length of a line, for example by adding capacitors. Integrated Voice and Data Terminal. (Equipment Low Bit Rate Voice. (Speech encoding technique with integrated computing and voice capabilities. In which allows voice transmission at under 64kbit/s.) its simplest form it consists of a PC with telephone Liquid Crystal Display. incorporated. Facilities such as storage and recall of Local Communications Network. (CCITT) telephone numbers is included.) Least Cost Routing. (Usually applies to the use of Integrated Voice Mail. alternative long distance routes, e.g. by using differ- Interexchange Carrier. (USA long distance telecom- ent carriers, in order to minimise transmission munication carrier.) costs.) International X.25 Infrastructure. (Pilot backbone Long Distance D.C. line signalling. (Method of d.c. pan-European network used by Europe's ac