Tandem Switch definition

Tandem Switch or “Tandem Office” or “Tandem” is 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 points of presence, and to provide Switched Exchange Access Services.

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Tandem Switch means an access tandem switch or other tandem switch equipped to provide Interconnection between CMRS providers and LECs that is used to connect and switch traffic between and among Central Office Switches and other Telecommunications Carriers’ networks for the purpose of providing Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Access Services.

Tandem Switch means/refers to a switch that has been designed for special functions that an End Office Switch does not or cannot perform. A Tandem Office Switch provides a common switch point whereby other switches, both Tandem Office Switches and End Office Switches, may exchange calls between each other when a direct Trunk Group is unavailable. The term “Tandem Office” and “Tandem” are used to refer to the building in which the Tandem Office Switch resides, but are also used interchangeably to refer to the switch within the building.

Examples of Tandem Switch in a sentence

• A switch used to provide Telecommunications Services, including, but not limited to, an End Office Switch or a Tandem Switch.

• A switch used to provide Telecommunications Services including but not limited to an End Office Switch or a Tandem Switch.

• To the extent that CLEC's Switch functions as a local or Access Tandem Switch, as defined in this Agreement, CLEC may also provide transit service to Qwest.

• Such trunks shall connect the End Office or Tandem Switch AT&T Broadband utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access to its customers in a given LATA to the Tandem(s) Verizon utilizes to provide Exchange Access in such LATA.

• In the event AT&T Broadband determines to offer Telephone Exchange Services in another LATA in Massachusetts in which Verizon operates a Tandem Switch, Verizon shall permit and enable AT&T Broadband to subtend the Verizon Tandem Switch(es) designated for the Verizon End Offices in the area where the AT&T Broadband Rating Point(s) associated with the NPA-NXX(s) to/from which the Switched Exchange Access Services are homed.

More Definitions of Tandem Switch

Tandem Switch or “Tandem Office Switch”

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 Switch or “Tandem(s)” are SBC-13STATE switches used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among other Central Office Switches. A Tandem Switch does not include a PBX .

Tandem Switch is a switch which is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among Central Office Switches.

Tandem Switch is a switching system that connects and switches trunk circuits between and among Central Office Switches, Mobile Switching Centers, and IXC networks. A Tandem Switch can also provide Host Office Switch or End Office Switch functions. A Central Office Switch may also be employed as a combination of any or all of the above switch types.

Tandem Switch is an AT&T-TSP switch used to connect Trunks between and among other Central Office Switches.

Tandem Switch refers to TWM's system by which it receives and transmits fax broadcasts and point to point traffic on behalf of its customers and constitutes separately the hardware and licensed Flexifax application software that enables the switch to be used for the Flexifax fax distribution purpose.