The ISE solution is made up of a deployment of nodes with three different personas: 1  Policy Administration Node (PAN) 2  Monitoring Node (MnT) 3  Policy Services Node (PAN) 4  pxGrid.
That Obama uses ISIL in discussing the terrorists is extremely telling and chilling. To those of us who keep our fingers on the pulse of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the distinctions separating ISIS and ISIL are by no means meager.
As of early 2017, ISIL controlled approximately 45,377 square kilometers (17520 square miles) of territory in Iraq and Syria and 7,323 km2 of territory elsewhere, for a total of 52,700 km2.