on on ganisation. equipment racks.) Exchange Terminating Equipment. Europaische Norm. (Norm Europeenne or European European Telecommunications Information Ser- standard.) vices. (Part of CEPT.) European pre-standard. European Telecommunications Network Operators. End Of Address. (Header code used in a transmitted (Association of European public operators.) frame.) Electronic Tandem Switch. End Of Block. (Character used at end of a trans- European Telecommunication Standard. (Norme mitted frame. Also referred to as End of Transmitted Europeenne de Telecommunications. Standard pro- Block or ETB.) duced by ETSI.) Acronyms 62/9 European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Fixed Satellite Service. End of Text. (A control character used to denote the France Telecom. (French PTT.) end of transmitted text, which was started by a STX File Transfer and Access Method. (Or File Transfer character.) Access and Management. International standard.) EUCATEL European Conference of Associations of Telecom- File Transfer Protocol. (Used within TCP/IP.) munication industries.) Fibre To The Curb. (Method for implementing fibre EURATOM European Atomic energy community. (Established optic access in the local loop, where the fibre is taken by the Treaty of Rome in 1957.) to street-side termination points and then dropped EURESCOM European Institute for Research and Strategic off to individual subscribers on copper.) Studies in Communications. (Part of CEPT.) Fibre To The Home. (Method of implementing fibre EUTELSAT European Telecommunications Satellite organisa- optic access in the local loop, where the fibre cable tion. is taken all the way to the subscriber's premises.) European Workshop on Open Systems. Groupe d'Analyse et de Prevision. (Analysis and Frame Alignment Signal. (Used in the alignment of Forecasting Group. A sub-committee of SOGT, part digital transmission frames.) of the European Community.) Facsimile. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Federal Communications Commission. (US auth- Government Data Network. (UK pr