Access Tandem Switch definition

Access Tandem Switch is a Switch used to connect End Office Switches to interexchange Carrier Switches. Qwest's Access Tandem Switches are also used to connect and switch traffic between and among Central Office Switches within the same LATA and may be used for the exchange of local traffic.

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Access Tandem Switch 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 Switch. A Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) switching system that is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among the LEC’s Central Office network and Interexchange Carriers’ networks. Act or the Act: The Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and as amended from time to time and codified at 47 ACTL: Access Customer Terminal Location as defined by Telcordia.

Examples of Access Tandem Switch in a sentence

• Transit Service is provided by CenturyLink, as a local and Access Tandem Switch provider, to CLEC to enable the completion of calls originated by or terminated to end users of another Telecommunications Carrier which is connected to CenturyLink's Switches.

• 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.

• 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 CenturyLink.

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

• 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.

• T SOUTHWEST REGION 5-STATE has a separate Local Only Tandem Switch(es) in the local Exchange Area and a separate Access Tandem Switch that serves the same local Exchange Area, a two-way IntraLATA Toll Trunk Group shall be established to the AT&T SOUTHWEST REGION 5-STATE Access Tandem Switch.

• The Parties understand and agree that Meet Point trunking arrangements are available and functional only to/from switched access customers who directly connect with any AT&T-13STATE Access Tandem Switch or Local/Access Tandem Switch that CLEC’s switch subtends in each LATA.

• Transit Service is provided by Qwest, as a local and Access Tandem Switch provider, to CLEC to enable the completion of calls originated by or terminated to end users of another Telecommunications Carrier which is connected to Qwest's Switches.

• Traffic between the Parties End User Customers that is routed utilizing a third- party Telecommunications Carrier’s local and/or Access Tandem Switch, or between a Party’s End User Customers and a third-party Telecommunications Carrier’s End User Customers (e.g., third-party CLECs, ILECs) that is routed utilizing the other Party’s local and/or Access Tandem Switch.

• Transit service is provided by Qwest, as a local and Access Tandem Switch provider, to CLEC to enable the completion of calls originated by or terminated to another Telecommunications Carrier (such as another CLEC, an existing LEC, or a wireless Carrier), which is connected to Qwest's local or Access Tandem Switches.

More Definitions of Access Tandem Switch

Access Tandem Switch is a switching machine within the Public Switched Telecommunications Network (PSTN) that is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among End Office Switches for IXC carried traffic and IntraLATA Toll Traffic as designed and used in some regions as well as switching Section 251(b)(5) Traffic, Non-toll VoIP-PSTN Traffic and ISP-Bound Traffic as designed and used in some regions.

Access Tandem Switch means a tandem switch in a AT&T-13STATE network equipped to provide Interconnection between a CMRS provider and an Interexchange Carrier (IXC) that is used to connect and switch traffic for the purpose of providing Switched Access Services.

Access Tandem Switch is a switch used to connect End Office Switches to Interexchange Carrier Switches. CenturyLink QC's Access Tandem Switches are also used to connect and switch traffic between and among Central Office Switches within the same LATA and may be used for the exchange of IntraMTA Traffic.

Access Tandem Switch is 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 defined as a switching machine within the public switched telecommunications network that is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among office switches for IXC-carried traffic (SBC-SOUTHWEST) and IXC- carried, IntraLATA Toll traffic, Section 251(b)(5) traffic and ISP-bound Traffic (SBC CALIFORNIA, SBC-NEVADA, SBC-MIDWEST and SBC- CONNECTICUT).

Access Tandem Switch is defined as a switching machine within the public switched telecommunications network that is used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among End Office Switches for IXC (Inter-exchange Carrier) carried traffic and IntraLATA Toll Traffic in the AT&T SOUTHWEST REGION 5- STATE as well as switching Section 251(b)(5) Traffic and ISP-Bound Traffic in AT&T-2STATE, AT&T MIDWEST REGION 5-STATE and AT&T CONNECTICUT.