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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, is an international not for profit, professional organization principled in the advancement of electrical related technologies. It has the most members of any technical professional organization, with more than 395,000 members in approximately 150 countries around the world.

The Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF, is an open standards organization, developing internet standards including the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, and works closely with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Interior Gateway Protocol

An Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, or ILEC, is a traditional local telephone company that was in existence at the time of the divestiture of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC).

An Ingress Bandwidth Profile is a characterization of Ingress Service Frame arrival times and lengths at the ingress User Network Interface (UNI) and a specification of disposition of each Service Frame based on its level of compliance with the characterization.

An Ingress External Interface Frame, or Ingress EI Frame, is an Ethernet frame transmitted across the External Interface (EI) toward the Ethernet Sub-Network (ESN).

An Ingress Frame is a service frame sent from the Customer Edge (CE) into the Service Provider network.

An Ingress Service Frame is a Service Frame sent from the Customer Edge (CE) into the Service Provider network.

Internet Protocol

IP Telephony represents voice, fax (facsimile) and voice messages that are transported using Internet Protocol or IP as opposed to the Public Switched Telephone Network or PSTN.