ANSI (American National Standards Institute)

ANSI coordinates the development and use of vol-

untary consensus standards in the United States across a wide variety of business sectors, and represents the needs and views of U.S. stakeholders in international standardization forums. Founded in 1918, ANSI membership comprises government agencies, private organizations, companies, academic and international bodies, and individuals. ANSI is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). See Appendix A for contact information. See also EIA, IEC, and ISO.

• uniform dialing plan (UDP)
• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
• U-NII (Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure)
• uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
• unipolar
• United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce, and Transport
• United Nations (UN)
• United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
• United States Digital Cellular (USDC)
• United States Independent Telephone Association (USITA)
• United States Telecom Association (USTA)
• United States Time Division Multiple Access (US TDMA)
• UNI (User Network Interface)
• universal ADSL (universal Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Lite)
• Universal Character Set (UCS)
• Universal Code (Unicode)
• Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)
• Universal International Freephone Number (UIFN)
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
• Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
• universal serial bus (USB)
• universal service
• Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)
• Universal Service Fund (USF)