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Federal Telecommunications System 2000 (FTS2000) is a long distance
telecommunications service A telecommunications company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many t ...
for the United States federal government, including services such as switched voice service for voice or
data Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...
up to 4.8 kbit/s, switched data at 56 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s, switched
digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Businesses *Digital bank, a form of financial institution *Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company *Digital Research (DR or DRI), a software ...
integrated service for voice, data, image, and
video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...
up to 1.544 Mbit/s, packet switched service for data in packet form, video
transmission Transmission or transmit may refer to: Science and technology * Power transmission ** Electric power transmission ** Transmission (mechanical device), technology that allows controlled application of power *** Automatic transmission *** Manual tra ...
for both compressed and
wideband In communications, a system is wideband when the message bandwidth significantly exceeds the coherence bandwidth of the channel. Some communication links have such a high data rate that they are forced to use a wide bandwidth; other links ma ...
video, and dedicated point-to-point
private line In telecommunications, a private line is typically a telephone company service that uses a dedicated, usually unswitched point-to-point circuit, but it may involve private switching arrangements, or predefined transmission physical or virtual p ...
for voice and data. ''Note 1:'' Use of FTS2000 contract services is mandatory for use by U.S. Government agencies for all acquisitions subject to 40 U.S.C. 759. ''Note 2:'' No U.S. Government
information Information is an Abstraction, abstract concept that refers to something which has the power Communication, to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the Interpretation (philosophy), interpretation (perhaps Interpretation (log ...
processing equipment or
customer premises equipment In telecommunications, a customer-premises equipment or customer-provided equipment (CPE) is any terminal and associated equipment located at a subscriber's premises and connected with a carrier's telecommunication circuit at the demarcation po ...
other than that which are required to provide an FTS2000 service are furnished. ''Note 3:'' The FTS2000 contractors will be required to provide service directly to an agency's
terminal equipment In telecommunications, the term terminal equipment has the following meanings: * Communications equipment at either end of a communications link, used to permit the stations involved to accomplish the mission for which the link was established. * ...
interface Interface or interfacing may refer to: Academic journals * ''Interface'' (journal), by the Electrochemical Society * '' Interface, Journal of Applied Linguistics'', now merged with ''ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics'' * '' Inter ...
. For example, the FTS2000 contractor might provide a terminal adapter to an agency location in order to connect FTS2000
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. ...
services to the agency's terminal equipment. ''Note 4:'' GSA awarded two 10-year, fixed-price contracts covering FTS2000 services on December 7, 1988. ''Note 5:'' The Warner Amendment excludes the mandatory use of FTS2000 in instances related to maximum
security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or ...
. FTS2000 was completed in 2000, then replaced by FTS2001, and thereafter, in 2008, by Networx.


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*FTS2000 was completed in 2000, and was replaced by FTS2001. Telecommunication services Telecommunications in the United States {{US-gov-stub