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IXC
(1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA.

(2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www.ixc-comm.com) A wholesale telecommunications provider that offers private line, long-distance, frame relay and ATM services over its nationwide fiber-optic network. IXC is an IXC. In 1999, the company merged with Cincinnati Bell Inc. and renamed itself BroadWing, Inc.

IXCs and LATAs
If an IXC does not have a point of presence (POP) in sending and receiving LATAs, it has to hand off the call to another IXC. For example, in the illustration above, if IXC 1 receives a call from LEC 2 destined for LEC 3, it has to hand off the call to IXC 2.





IXC - IntereXchange Carrier


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The IXC is a vital part of the DTI's strategy to keep British firms at the forefront of world business and is funded by the University of Birmingham's Business School, via the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
PSINet Inc wants it to be known that it has exceeded the stock valuation threshold it promised to IXC Communications as part its deal struck in February 1998.
LATA (local access transport area) boundaries will be transparent to customers when Bell Atlantic and IXC Communications jointly provide ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) Cell Relay service.
 
 
 
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