- IDB
- A now defunct common carrier that was based in Culver
City, California. IDB provided audio and video Distribution services for many customers
including NPR. IDB became Keystone, which then become GlobeNet.
A separate division (at
least they told us they're separate) operated a high-speed Data Network including
connections to and from England (formerly TRT) IDB is the provider for the service used by
NPR for our London Bureau as well as the BBC for their World
Service Feed to North America.
Nobody, except Jeffery Sudikov, really knows what the letters IDB stand for although
many rumors abound.
We used to buy occasional service from uplinks in their analog sports network; most
notably from Saint Louis and Miami.
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- ISDN
- Integrated Switched Digital Network The future of telephone switching
in the world. This service will be all-digital allowing the transmission of anything you
can squeeze into the bits you buy.
There are two types of local connections available, BRI & PRI, depending on the data
capacity required.
It is necessary to hang some sort of Codec on this service
to make it useful to us.
- ITFS
- Instructional Television Fixed Service A band of frequencies set aside
forthe closed circuit distribution of instructional television programs from production
centers to schools. In one of several efforts to put itself out of business, the FCC has
loosened up the rules to allow the licensees to use these channels to raise revenue (they
can sell them).
George Mason University is using these frequencies to distribute CNN, CNN2, C-SPAN,
C-SPAN2, and Home Team Sports to paying customers in the
Districtwho do not have access to cable.
- ITN
- International Television News A compeditor the the BBC
in Britain. NPR subscribed to this video service during the Gulf War.
- IXC
- Inter Exchange Channel Telco service between
two "exchanges" or cities. Actually is between the Long Lines Program Operating Centers in the two cities.
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