LEC

Local Exchange Carrier

LEC

(1) (LAN Emulation Client) A software driver that provides LAN emulation (LANE) in an ATM network. It resides in an ATM end station or in a computer system that provides the LAN to ATM conversion, often known as a LAN access device. See LANE.

(2) (Local Exchange Carrier) An organization that provides local telephone service within the U.S., which includes the RBOCs, large companies such as GTE and more than a thousand smaller and rural telephone companies (approximately 1,300 in total). A LEC provides service from the customer premises to its local exchange (central office) within a local geographic area. See LATA, CLEC and ILEC.

LATAs, LECs and IXCs

The PSTN is made up of local exchange carriers (LECs) and interexchange carriers (IXCs) that are governed by LATA boundaries. Although this illustration shows one LEC within one LATA, state regulations may allow multiple LECs within the same LATA.

LEC

Acronym	Definition
LEC➣Local Exchange Carrier (telephony)
LEC➣Lake City (Amtrak station code; Lake City, FL)
LEC➣Lake Erie College
LEC➣LAN Emulation Client
LEC➣League of Legends European Championship
LEC➣Liberia Electricity Corporation (Liberia)
LEC➣Little East Conference (athletics)
LEC➣Limited Editions Club (est. 1929; books)
LEC➣Line Echo Cancellation
LEC➣Lens Epithelial Cell (ophthalmology)
LEC➣Local Exchange Carrier
LEC➣Linux Education Center
LEC➣Local Exchange Companies
LEC➣Logan Entertainment Centre (Australia)
LEC➣Law Enforcement Committee
LEC➣Living Enrichment Center (Oregon)
LEC➣Language Engineering Company (translation software)
LEC➣Laredo Entertainment Center (Laredo, TX)
LEC➣Levy Exemption Certificate (UK)
LEC➣Lawrence Education Center (Springfield, IL)
LEC➣Local Emergency Coordinator
LEC➣Long Evans Cinnamon (rat species)
LEC➣LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC (computer game company)
LEC➣Landmark Education Corporation
LEC➣Law Enforcement Command
LEC➣Lodge Executive Committee Meeting (Order of the Arrow, Tamegonit Lodge 147, Heart of America Council, Boy Scouts of America)
LEC➣Locally Employed Civilian
LEC➣London European Club (London, UK)
LEC➣Library Executive Committee
LEC➣Language Engineering Company, LLC (Belmont, Massachusetts)
LEC➣Local Engineering Competition (Board of European Students of Technology; Aalborg University; Denmark)
LEC➣Layered Error Correction
LEC➣Lafayette Engine Center (Caterpillar; Indiana)
LEC➣Longford Engineering Company (refrigeration; UK)
LEC➣Longford Engineering Company (UK)
LEC➣LAN (Local Area Network) Emulation Configuration (servers)
LEC➣Lightning Eliminators Consultants (Colorado)
LEC➣Linear Expression Cassette (genes)
LEC➣Lockheed Electronics Company
LEC➣Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski Method (semiconductors)
LEC➣Lunar Equipment Conveyor
LEC➣Low Emissions Combustion
LEC➣Local Employment Committee
LEC➣LAMPS Element Coordinator
LEC➣Levelised Electricity Costs (power plants)
LEC➣Liquid Encapsulated Czochralsky (crystal growth method)
LEC➣Local Engineering Change
LEC➣Light Earth Construction (building)
LEC➣Laboratory Emergency Coordinator
LEC➣Link Edit Control
LEC➣Logical Equivalence Check (engineering, electronics, design automation, formal verification)
LEC➣Least Economic Countries
LEC➣Launch Escape Control
LEC➣LANTCOM ELINT Center
LEC➣Lafayette Educational Complex (Brooklyn, NY)
LEC➣London Euston Crewe (UK engineers line reference)
LEC➣Lumped Element Circulator
LEC➣Livestock Equipment Council
LEC➣Learner's Edge Consulting
LEC➣Leading Edge Consulting, LLC