Nielson Station Index. Service performed by A.C. Nielson company that measures the amount of local television viewing audiences in approximately 220 markets.

National Student Index. A system that assigns a unique identifier that will be a lifetime identification number that students keep even if they study at more than one provider.

Nielsen Station Index (See Services, Nielsen Media Research)

Nielsen Station Index. Established in 1954, NSI provides local market television audience measurement for more than 1,000 local television stations in 210 local television markets. In nearly 48 markets, NSI provides metered services which include audience estimates every day. Nielsen Syndication Service (NSS) – Formed in 1981, NSS serves the syndicated programming market by providing audience measurement of nationally syndicated programming on both a national and local basis.

National Screen Institute www.nsi-canada.ca

Nielsen Station Index, local television report service of A.C. Nielsen.

(National Satellite Initiative) was launched in October 2003 by Industry Canada in partnership with Infrastructure Canada and the Canadian Space Agency. It was created to make available affordable satellite capacity for the deployment of broadband services (such as tele-health, tele-education, e-commerce, etc.) to communities in the far to mid-north, and in isolated and remote areas of Canada, where satellite technology is the only practical broadband solution.

National Security Inspectorate

National Student Index. The system maintained by the Ministry of Education that contains registration details for all learners known to the Ministry. The NSI assigns a lifetime identification number (NSN, National Student Number) to each learner.

Network Solutions, Inc. The government contractor that was asked by the Department of Commerce in 1993 to coordinate the distribution and management of domain names. NSI web site