Telcordia® Common Language® Connections Information Service
Providing carriers and service providers a unified way to represent physical and logical connections.
The Common Language Connections Information Service provides you the reference data that identifies the "rules and language" by which all connections are to be identified, helping to improve network efficiency in your organization, and industry wide.
The Telcordia Connections Information Service can help you to:
- Improve network capacity utilization by up to 30 percent
- Reduce efforts associated with circuit rearrangements and disconnects
- Decrease systems integration-related costs
- Minimize the in-house resources in the naming of circuit and facilities
- Enable trunk management systems to effectively provide decision support in terms of capacity sizing at the various points of interconnection (POI)
- Reduce capital budgets for transmission facilities by recapturing stranded paths
- Facilitate transactions with other carriers (e.g., wholesale service providers)
Our Common Language experts actively work with standards bodies to refine and extend the Connections Reference Data or the rule-sets that tell you and your systems how to code "connections" and how to interpret those codes. The information is then stored in the Telcordia Connections catalogue and accessed through the secure browser-based eCoder system used by all Common Language Connections Information Service subscribers.
The three types of connection codes are:
- CLFI™ Codes -- which identify physical connections, optical fibers and electrical carrier facilities, satellite or radio-based facilities, timeslots and channels on optical fiber and electrical carrier facilities
- CLCI™ S/S Codes -- which identify special service circuits or dedicated transport
- CLCI™ MSG Codes -- which identify PSTN trunking transport
The Connections Information Service provides the reference data or language dictionary necessary for naming both physical and logical connections in a meaningful and consistent manner, guaranteeing unique representation of each and every connection. These connections are stored in your systems – including engineering and inventory - and serve to significantly streamline provisioning and assurance processes, while complementing any Master Data Management (MDM) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation.
All of the Common Language Information Services provide information via globally accessible, hosted registries, which make available large lists of published data that is relevant to a broad range of operators. We provide a dictionary which forms the basis for naming and interpreting the information stored in Common Language registries and your systems in a meaningful and consistent manner.
