Access Tandem definition

Access Tandem means a local exchange carrier switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating and/or terminating traffic between a LEC end office network and IXC POPs.

Access Tandem means a switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating or terminating traffic between end offices, other tandems and Third Party Providers.

Access Tandem or “Tandem” is a switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating or terminating traffic between end offices, and/or a customer’s premises and is capable of providing Feature Group D service.

Examples of Access Tandem in a sentence

• New or continued CenturyLink local Tandem Switch to CenturyLink Access Tandem Switch and CenturyLink Access Tandem Switch to CenturyLink Access Tandem Switch connections are not required where CenturyLink can demonstrate that such connections present a risk of Switch exhaust and that CenturyLink does not make similar use of its network to transport the local calls of its own or any Affiliate's End User Customers.

• Interconnection, which CenturyLink 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 IntraLATA LEC Toll or Jointly Provided Switched Access traffic.

• CenturyLink will also provide the one-time notification to CLEC of the billing name, billing address and Carrier identification codes of the IXCs subtending any Access Tandem Switches to which CLEC directly connects.

• This Equal Access Trunk Group will be established for the transmission and routing of all traffic between WSP’s End Users and IXCs via an AT&T-13STATE Access Tandem or combined local/Access Tandem.

More Definitions of Access Tandem

Access Tandem means the device that switches 911 calls to the proper PSAP.

Access Tandem is defined as a switching machine within the public switched telecommunications network that is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among other central office switches for IXC-carried traffic.

Access Tandem means a switching system that:

Access Tandem means a local exchange carrier switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating and/or terminating traffic between a LEC end office network and IXC points of presence (POPs).

Access Tandem means a LEC switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating and/or terminating traffic between a LEC End Office network and IXC POPsthe switching systems operated by carriers other than the LEC that operates the LEC End Office network.

Access Tandem means a Local Exchange Carrier switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating and/or terminating traffic between a LEC End Office network and the switching systems operated by carriers other than the LEC that operates the LEC End Office network.

Access Tandem means a Qwest switching system which switches calls between end offices.