# FTS2000 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/FTS2000 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/FTS2000.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTS2000 > Source revision: 1331429922 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|U.S. federal government telecommunications service}} {{No footnotes|date=November 2022}} '''Federal Telecommunications System 2000''' ('''FTS2000''') is a long distance [telecommunications service](/source/telecommunications_service) for the United States federal government, including services such as switched voice service for voice or [data](/source/data) up to 4.8 kbit/s, switched data at 56 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s, switched [digital](/source/Digital_data) integrated service for voice, data, image, and [video](/source/video) up to 1.544 Mbit/s, [packet](/source/Packet_(information_technology)) switched service for data in packet form, video [transmission](/source/transmission_(telecommunications)) for both compressed and [wideband](/source/wideband) video, and dedicated point-to-point [private line](/source/private_line) 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](/source/information) processing equipment or [customer premises equipment](/source/customer_premises_equipment) 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](/source/terminal_equipment) [interface](/source/Network_interface_device). For example, the FTS2000 contractor might provide a [terminal adapter](/source/terminal_adapter) to an agency location in order to connect FTS2000 [ISDN](/source/Integrated_Services_Digital_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](/source/Warner_Amendment) excludes the mandatory use of FTS2000 in instances related to maximum [security](/source/security). FTS2000 was completed in 2000, then replaced by [FTS2001](/source/FTS2001), and thereafter, in 2008, by [Networx](/source/Networx). ==References== *FTS2000 was completed in 2000, and was replaced by [FTS2001](/source/FTS2001). {{FS1037C}} Category:Telecommunication services Category:Telecommunications in the United States {{US-gov-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [FTS2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTS2000) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTS2000?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.