Telcordia^® COMMON LANGUAGE^® Location Information Service

Our Common Language Location Information Service offers carriers and service providers a way to identify “locations” at which they can provide, or can access, network “functionality.” Location coding is performed using Central Location On-Line Entry System (CLONES) or API access to the Common Language Location Registry, which manages location uniqueness and relevant address information.

Our Location Information Service can help you to:

• Reduce network capacity build-out by up to 20%
• Minimize a field technician’s unproductive time and efforts caused by location issues
• 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 address data

The Location Registry stores detailed attributes about the location. These are specified by the Common Language Location Codes (CLLI Codes). This Location code includes an Entity or Function Code and is a key into the Location Registry which is managed by Telcordia on behalf of the industry. All possible entity/function codes are identified in the Common Language Location Reference Data which provides the rules for coding and decoding of network functions.

Network engineers and “Location Administrators” at a company, and others, can create “registered” location codes by using the Locations Information Service. They can then access the Location Registry to create new codes that will immediately be available to all of their systems and the systems of their trading partners or create these codes from within their OSS that can be integrated with the Location Registry.

All subscribers to the Location Information Service can access the Location Registry to identify network locations and functions associated with the locations. They can also retrieve other relevant location information stored in Locations Registry such as address, floor, room, city, state, lat/long, V&H, etc.

The Common Language Location Registry currently contains over seven million network locations registered from around the globe. Registered locations can include network sites (and their functionality), network support sites and customer sites. Location codes can be leveraged across a service provider’s BSS/OSS, providing a single naming implementation. Location codes can also be used as a means to communicate with other carriers with whom the service provider needs to interconnect. Leveraging a single identifier for locations on interconnection requests can significantly reduce the cost and time associated with interconnection.

All of the Common Language Information Services provide information via data registries, which make available large lists of published data that is relevant to a broad range of operators. Also provided is reference data, which provides a dictionary or coding guide that forms the basis for coding and interpreting the information stored in Common Language catalogues and your systems in a meaningful and consistent manner.