Service provider
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A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. Usually this refers to a business that provides subscription or web service to other businesses or individuals. Examples of these services include Internet access, Mobile phone operator, and web application hosting.

In other contexts, the service may be a more abstract service, for example when using modelling techniques to analyze a problem, it may be useful to divide the system into modules, each of which may both provide services to other moudules and itself consume services from other modules.

Types of service providers

Communications service provider (CSP)
Application service provider (ASP)
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Managed Service Provider (MSP)
Telecommunications Service Provider (TSP)
Internet Payment Service Provider (IPSP)

As a result of the common suffix, the term xSP is used to refer to all types of service providers.

More info about this term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_providers

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