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(1) (Network Service Provider) An organization that provides a high-speed Internet backbone to ISPs and other service providers. Sprint, MCI and UUNET are examples of NSPs. See Internet backbones.
(2) (Native Signal Processing) Enhancements to Pentium CPUs proposed by Intel that later evolved into the MMX CPU. See MMX.
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Common abbreviation for ‘Network Service Provider’, one of the big national or regional companies that maintains a portion of the Internet backbone and resells connectivity to ISPs. In 1996, major NSPs include ANS, MCI, UUNET, and Sprint. An Internet wholesaler.
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NSP is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:
- Afghan National Solidarity Programme
- Nankoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun, a Super Famicom game
- National Ski Patrol
- Netaji Subhash Place (Delhi Metro)
- National Solidarity Party, a political party in Singapore
- Northumbrian smallpipes, a type of highly-evolved bagpipes played in Northern England
- Native Signal Processing, Intel's term for Host Signal Processing
- Nature's Sunshine Products
- Needle and syringe programme
- Network security policy
- Network Service Provider
- Nevada State Prison
- Network of Spiritual Progressives
- New Science Projects
- New Sarum Police, a defunct city police force in Wiltshire, England operational between 1836 - 1838.
- Newsgroup Service Provider
- Night Star Pictures
- None Shall Pass
- Non-starch polysaccharide
- Nuestra Señora de la Paz
- Northern State Parkway
- Northern States Power Company, a division of Xcel Energy
- North Saint Paul
- No Such Person, a United States Postal Service designation
- Nova Scotia Power
- North Staffordshire Polytechnic now Staffordshire University
- Nurse scheduling problem
- Natural swimming pool
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