End Office Switches definition

End Office Switches. (“EOs”) are switches from which end user Telephone Exchange Services are directly connected and offered.

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End Office Switches which are used to terminate customer station loops for the purpose of interconnecting to each other and to trunks; and

End Office Switches which are used to terminate lines from individual stations for the purpose of interconnection to each other and to trunks; and

Examples of End Office Switches in a sentence

A switching entity that has billing and recording capabilities and is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among End Office Switches and between and among End Office Switches and carriers’ aggregation points, points of termination, or point of presence, and to provide Switched Exchange Access Services.
For purposes of routing AT&T Broadband traffic to Verizon, the subtending arrangements between Verizon Tandem Switches and Verizon End Office Switches shall be the same as the Tandem/End Office subtending arrangements Verizon maintains for the routing of its own or other carriers’ traffic.
For purposes of routing Verizon traffic to AT&T Broadband, the subtending arrangements between AT&T Broadband Tandem Switches (or functional or geographic equivalent) and AT&T Broadband End Office Switches (or functional or geographic equivalent) shall be the same as the Tandem/End Office subtending arrangements (or functional equivalent), which AT&T Broadband maintains for the routing of its own or other carriers’ traffic.
Direct Trunked Transport (DTT) is available between the Serving Wire Center of the Local Interconnection Entrance Facility or Collocation and the terminating and/or transiting Tandem Switch or End Office Switches.
Qwest will provide the operational, technical and administrative support required in the planning, Provisioning and maintenance involved in the joint access Provisioning process to the IXCs. Qwest will be unable to fulfill the role of ASC if CLEC does not fully comply with MECOD requirements, including filing CLEC's End Office Switches and billed percentages (BPs) in the NECA 4 Tariff.
Interconnection, which Qwest currently names "Local Interconnection Service" (LIS) is provided for the purpose of connecting End Office Switches to End Office Switches or End Office Switches to local or Access Tandem Switches for the exchange of Exchange Service (EAS/Local traffic); or End Office Switches to Access Tandem Switches for the exchange of Exchange Access (IntraLATA Toll) or Jointly Provided Switched Access traffic.
For purposes of routing Verizon traffic to GNAPS, the subtending arrangements between GNAPS Tandem Switches and GNAPS End Office Switches shall be the same as the Tandem/End Office subtending arrangements that GNAPS maintains for the routing of its own or other carriers’ traffic.
CLEC traffic will be offered first to the direct trunk group (also referred to as the "primary high" route) and then overflow to the Tandem Switch group (also referred to as the "alternate final" route) for completion to Qwest End Office Switches.
CLEC and CenturyLink agree to Interconnect their networks through existing and/or new Interconnection Facilities between CLEC switch(es) and CenturyLink's End Office Switch(es) and/or Tandem Switch(es).
Common Transport: An interoffice transmission path between End Office Switches, between End Office Switches and Tandem Switches and between Tandem Switches in CenturyLink’s network.

More Definitions of End Office Switches

End Office Switches are switches from which End Users’ Telephone Exchange Services are directly connected and offered.

End Office Switches are switches from which end users' Exchange services are directly connected and offered.

End Office Switches which are Class 5 switches from which End User Telecommunications Services are directly connected and offered.

End Office Switches which are used to terminate end user station loops for the purpose of interconnecting to each other and to trunks; and 3.9.2 "Tandem Office Switches" which are used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among other Central Office Switches. Access tandems provide connections for exchange access and toll traffic while local tandems provide connections for local/EAS traffic.

End Office Switches which are Class 5 switches where end user Exchange Services are directly connected and offered.

End Office Switches which are Class 5 switches from which end user Exchange Services are directly connected and offered, and (ii) "TANDEM OFFICE SWITCHES" which are Class 4 switches which are used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among central office switches. Central office switches may be employed as combination end office/tandem office switches (combination Class 5/Class 4).