Telcordia® Common Language® Location Information Service

A single source of network location information that helps provide efficient, seamless collaboration, both within an enterprise and with trading partners.

Efficiently dealing with location issues demands that there be as few surprises as possible. Our Common Language Location Information Service offers you a unified way to identify, classify and understand the attributes of over 8 million registered sites worldwide, saving you time and money in personnel and equipment utilization while complementing any Master Data Management (MDM) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation.

Our Location Information Service can help you to:

• Reduce network capacity build-out by up to 20 percent
• Minimize a field technician's unproductive time and efforts
• Improve efficiency of network planning activities
• Reduce incidence of errors in design and provisioning
• Streamline processes involving interconnection
• Ease the burden of integration from mergers/acquisitions
• Reduce location ID databases
• Reduce the number of site surveys required due to conflicting location data

Managed by Telcordia on behalf of the industry, the Common Language Location Registry is an ever-evolving entity that represents decades of collaboration in storing detailed network attributes about locations, as well as address and access information. Entities and Functions are specified by Common Language Location Codes (CLLI™ Codes), which are part of a registry that provides the rules for coding and decoding of network functions.

Companies can create "registered" location codes by using the Locations Information Service. They can then utilize the Location Registry to create new codes that will immediately be available to all of their systems and the systems of their trading partners. Location naming is performed using Central Location On-Line Entry System (CLONES), a secure browser-based interface to the Location Registry, or through a web service call made by a customer system.

The Common Language Location Registry includes network sites, network support sites and customer sites. Unified location codes can help you communicate with other carriers on interconnection requests and can significantly reduce the cost and time associated with interconnection.

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.