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 or "Tandem Office" which is a switching entity that 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. An "Access Tandem Office" or "Access Tandem" is a Tandem Office with billing and recording capabilities that is used to provide Switched Exchange Access Services. A Central Office Switch may also be employed as a combination End Office/Tandem Office Switch.

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.

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.

• Where multi-frequency signaling is currently used, the Parties agree, below, to Interconnect their networks using multi-frequency (“MF”) or (“DTMF”) signaling, subject to availability at the End Office Switch or Tandem Switch at which Interconnection occurs.

• For delivery of mobile to land traffic, the Parties will Interconnect at each Tandem Switch or at each End Office Switch that subtends a Tandem Switch at which the Parties are not Interconnected.

• Authorized Services Interconnection shall be available at the trunk side of a Telco End Office Switch via Type 1 and at the trunk side of a Telco End Office via 2B Authorized Services Interconnections; and at the trunk connection points for a Telco Tandem Switch via Type 2A Authorized Services Interconnection.

• Telco's Transiting Service allows Carrier to send traffic to a third party network through Telco's Tandem Switch and to receive traffic from a third party network through Telco's Tandem Switch.

More Definitions of Tandem Switch

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.

Tandem Switch or “Tandem Office” is a switching facility that is used to interconnect trunk circuits between and among End Office Switches, aggregation points, points of termination, or points of presence.

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.

Tandem Switch or “Tandem” – 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 carriers’ aggregation points, points of termination, or points of presence, and to provide Switched Exchange Access Services. Where a switch is employed as a combination End Office/Tandem, the term “Tandem” shall only apply to the switch partition providing the Tandem functionality. As used in the Agreement, Tandem or Tandem Switch refers to a CTCO “Access Tandem”.

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

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 .