Telcordia® Common Language® Equipment Information Service

A consistent, encompassing method of identifying and classifying equipment.

The Common Language Equipment Information Service gives you a regularly updated, vendor-independent equipment identification solution that evolves as technology does. Aggregated from more than 1,000 equipment suppliers and 450,000 CLEI™ Codes, it simplifies the dizzying array of equipment codes in a consistent way, so you can better manage your assets, complimenting any Master Data Management (MDM) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation.

Our Equipment Information Service can help you to:

• Reduce investment in spare equipment up to 15 percent by tracking and leveraging card interchangeability
• Reduce by up to 90 percent the resources needed to administer equipment data across all OSS/BSS
• Reduce new service and repair order failures by providing clear equipment identification
• Drive system flow-through in support of zero-touch operations
• Provide one authoritative, central source of clean equipment reference data
• Streamline the processes to identify, order, receive and place network equipment

The Equipment Information Service clarifies the identification of equipment between service providers and their equipment suppliers, and is the only equipment identification solution that:

• Is vendor-neutral with globally unique equipment identifiers
• Is tied to a proven product-marking solution
• Facilitates human, scanner and machine identification (equipment identifier in the MIB)
• Includes an Equipment Registry that provides the industry with a central source of equipment reference data
• Covers multiple business process disciplines (e.g. procurement, warehouse management, network inventory, maintenance, repair, retirement and financial asset tracking)

Our Equipment Information Service classifies, categorizes, codes and normalizes attributes for up to 20,000 new equipment items a year. It is supported by a team of equipment coding experts who specialize in the understanding of equipment and how it will be identified and modeled in a service provider's systems. Equipment suppliers support our efforts. In fact, the CLEI Codes we create are passed back to equipment vendors for creation and application of CLEI Code bar code labels BEFORE the equipment is delivered, aiding in scanning, visual identification and auto-discovery of equipment and attributes – as well as helping to populate your administrative databases accurately.

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.