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

  • Tandem rubber-tired pulls, Euclid and similar types shall have exhausts installed on a vertical basis with no side elbows.

  • CLEC shall route Transit Traffic via AT&T MISSOURI’s Tandem switches, and not at or through any AT&T MISSOURI End Offices.

  • Once this trunk group has been established, XXXX agrees to cease routing Transit Traffic through the AT&T MISSOURI Tandem to the Third Party Terminating Carrier, unless the Parties mutually agree otherwise.


More Definitions of Tandem

Tandem. “us” or “we” means: Tandem Bank Limited, registered office 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, London, WC1N 1LE, UK, a company registered in England and Wales (company registration number 00955491)
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.