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

• A switch used to provide Telecommunications Services including (1) End Office Switches which are Class 5 switches from which end-user Telephone Exchange Services are directly connected and offered, and (2) Tandem Office Switches which are Class 4 switches used to connect and switch trunk circuits between and among Central Office Switches.

• A switching and transport function which allows one Party to send Transit Traffic to the other Party’s network through a third-party’s Tandem and/or transport facilities, or to a third-party network through the other Party’s Tandem and/or transport facilities.

• CLEC, when it sends traffic originated by its End User Customers to CenturyLink’s End User Customers via an Alternate Tandem Provider, or CenturyLink, when it sends traffic originated by its End User Customers to **CLEC’s End User Customers via an Alternate Tandem Provider.

• CenturyLink, when traffic is terminated to it by CLECvia an Alternate Tandem Provider, or **CLEC, when traffic from CenturyLink is terminated to CLECvia an Alternative Tandem Provider.

• 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.

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.