Telcordia^® COMMON LANGUAGE^® Information Services

Nearly every service provider activity is driven by the exchange of information, whether it relates to business processes supporting asset management, network management, services management or interconnection.

As a result, providers recognize that inadequate information infrastructure strategies impact all aspects of their business and can lead to:

• Inability to make informed business decisions
• Expensive integration and evolution of all systems
• Difficulty maintaining competitive position
• Difficulty complying with reporting and regulatory mandates
• Overspending on equipment and network capacity
• Customer churn due to delays in service introduction and delivery

Facing fierce competition, today’s operators are incorporating technological advances and an information infrastructure strategy known as Common Language Information Services. These advances and services help to increase operational efficiency and ensures an operator's information is represented in a consistent, meaningful manner across their organization and within the industry.

For more than 30 years Common Language Information Services has provided the communications industry with a single, managed implementation of key network and service related data. Common Language Information Services leverage industry standards and is referenced by nearly all the relevant international standards organizations including ANSI, ETSI, ITU, ATIS, Telemanagement Forum, IETF and ISO.

Unlike standards, which provide a framework for information but stop short of the details needed for an implementation, Common Language provides a working community that includes over a thousand equipment vendors and the actual mechanisms for sharing and managing that information within a single business entity or between the hundreds of parties that use Common Language data on an automated basis.

A Common Language subscription offers access to our hosted data registries and associated reference information, some of which can be replicated in your environment, made available as needed via extract files or offered in real time via application API’s.

Our Common Language Information Services include:

Common Language Services Information Service
Providing the industry with a single, flexible approach to define and communicate service orders.

Common Language Connections Information Service
Providing carriers and service providers with a way to represent physical and logical connections.

Common Language Location Information Service
A single source of network location information that helps provide efficient, seamless collaboration with trading partners.

Common Language Equipment Information Service
Providing a consistent, meaningful and unique method of identifying equipment, its capabilities and its classifications.