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

• If the switch functions as an Access Tandem, or there is a tandem in the building, traffic from every CO to every CLEC could be interrupted.

• A physical architecture plan will, at a minimum, include the location of CLEC’s switch(es) and AT&T-21STATE’s End Office Switch(es) and/or Tandem Switch(es) to be interconnected, the facilities that will connect the two (2) networks and which Party will provide (be financially responsible for) the Interconnection facilities.

• If an AT&T-21STATE End Office does not subtend an AT&T-21STATE Tandem that switches Section 251(b)(5)/IntraLATA Toll Traffic, a direct final DEOT will be established by CLEC and there will be no overflow of Section 251(b)(5)/IntraLATA Toll Traffic.

• To utilize MTA, OE-LEC must establish an interconnection trunk group(s) at a minimum of one AT&T SOUTHEAST REGION 9-STATE Access Tandem within each LATA as required.

• If an AT&T SOUTHWEST REGION 5-STATE End Office does not subtend an AT&T SOUTHWEST REGION 5-STATE Tandem that switches Section 251(b)(5)/IntraLATA Toll Traffic, a direct final DEOT will be established by CLEC and there will be no overflow of Section 251(b)(5)/IntraLATA Toll Traffic.

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.