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.

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

• AT&T- 21STATE will accept OE-LEC’s Out of Exchange Traffic at its Tandem Switch over local interconnection facilities that currently exist or may exist in the future between the Parties to or from OE-LEC’s out of Exchange Areas to or from AT&T-21STATE’s End Offices.

• AT&T-21STATE will accept OE-LEC’s Out of Exchange Traffic at its Tandem Switch over local interconnection facilities that currently exist or may exist in the future between the Parties to or from OE- LEC’s out of Exchange Areas to or from AT&T-21STATE’s End Offices.

• Other than delivery,AT&T-22STATE has no responsibility for traffic routed from or through another Telecommunication Carrier’s network toAT&T-22STATE’s Tandem Switch that is destined to Carrier’s Paging Terminal.

• Authorized Services Interconnection shall be available at the trunk side of aAT&T-22STATE End Office Switch via Type 1 Authorized Services Interconnection (and via Type 2B Authorized Services Interconnection, when and where available); and at the trunk connection points for aAT&T-22STATE Tandem Switch via Type 2A Authorized Services Interconnection.

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 Class 4 switching system that connects and switches trunk circuits between and among Host Office Switch, End Office Switches, Mobile Switching Centers, and IXC networks.

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.