Tandem definition

Tandem or “Tandem Switch” or “Tandem Office Switch” Tandem means to connect in series. A Tandem, Tandem Switch or Tandem Office Switch connects one trunk to another for the purpose of exchanging Local Traffic. It is an intermediate (Class 4) switch between an originating telephone call and the final destination of the call.

Tandem or “Tandem Switch” means a physical or logical 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 points of presence, and to provide Switched Exchange Access Services.

Tandem denotes a Class 4 switching center used to switch a call between and among two End Office Switches, an End Office Switch and an equivalent facility provided by a carrier other than a LEC, or another Tandem, or two Tandems.

Examples of Tandem in a sentence

• All references to CenturyLink Tandems in this section pertain only to those locations where CenturyLink currently owns a Tandem and where the CenturyLink End Offices at which traffic is to be exchanged are actually connected to the CenturyLink Tandem.

• A switch used to provide Telecommunications Services including (1) End Office Switches which are Class 5 switches from which end-user Telephone Exchange Services are directly connected and offered, and (2) Tandem Office Switches which are Class 4 switches used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among Central Office Switches.

• This includes direct-routed Local Traffic that terminates to offices that have combined Tandem Office Switch and End Office Switch functions.

• A switching and transport function which allows one Party to send Transit Traffic to the other Party’s network through a third-party’s Tandem and/or transport facilities, or to a third-party network through the other Party’s Tandem and/or transport facilities.

• CenturyLink, when traffic is terminated to it by CenturyLink QCC via an Alternate Tandem Provider, or CenturyLink QCC, when traffic from CenturyLink is terminated to CenturyLink QCC via an Alternative Tandem Provider.

More Definitions of Tandem

Tandem. “us” or “we” means: Tandem Bank Limited, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, London, WC1N 1LE, UK

Tandem denotes a Class 4 switching center used to switch a call between and among two End Office Switches, a MTSO or an End Office Switch and an equivalent facility provided by a third party.

Tandem means the following:

Tandem means a switching system that, through a trunk-to-trunk connection, provides a concentration and distribution function for originating or terminating traffic between End Offices, MSCs, other tandems and Third Party Providers’.

Tandem or “Tandem Switch” means a physical or logical 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 points of presence, and to provide Switched Exchange Access Services.

Tandem means Tandem Computers Incorporated.

Tandem denotes an ILEC switching center used to switch a call between or among two End Office Switches, an End Office Switch and another Tandem, or two Tandems.