E – H

→ B, C → D, E → H, I→ M, N → P, Q → Z

ECC
Excess Construction Charging or Error Correction Code

EIS
Enterprise Investment Scheme

EM
Efficient Multicast or Electro Magnetic

EMC
Electro Magnetic Compatibility

EMP
Equivalence Management Platform – the system that makes BT Retail have the same priority as any other ISP in the UK

E-Side
Exchange Side –refers to the exchange or drop sides of the PCP

ESS
Essential Service Supply – generator backed up power in case of mains failure

FCC
Federal Communications Commission – United States regulator

FD
Fully Diluted

FiOS
Fiber Optic Services – Verizon FTTH/P product

FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array

FMC

Fixed Mobile Convergence

FTTC
Fibre To The Curb (North America), Fibre To The Cabinet (UK)

FTTH

Fibre To The Home

FTTN
Fibre To The Node (same as Fibre To The Cabinet)

FTTP
Fibre To The Premises

G.Bond
ITU standards G.998.1-3

GBP
Great Britain Pounds (Sterling)

GEA
Generic Ethernet Access – a GigE optical pipe from a ruggedized enclosure somewhere to the CO

GPON
Gigabit Passive Optical Network

GTS
Genesis Technical Systems

HD
High Definition

HDF
Handover Distribution Frame – basically a wire rack that splits out all the pairs routed to the B-Buss equipment

HDTV
High Definition TeleVision

HGW:
Home GateWay

→ B, C → D, E → H, I→ M, N → P, Q → Z