Products & Solutions
Interoffice Transport
Overview
Interoffice (IOF) Transport provides transmission between central offices located in the same LATA.
CenturyLink has been providing state-of-the-art telecommunications network technology for years. We keep service simple for you because our Carrier Markets organization serves as your single point-of-contact for ordering, provisioning, and billing.
Using Interoffice Transport from CenturyLink, you may:
- Increase speed, security, accuracy and reliability through a dedicated facility.
- Enhance your end-user customers' perception of you by offering them a variety of services.
- Achieve cost-efficient two-way transmission between central offices.
Features & Benefits
- Dedicated facility - increases speed, security, accuracy and reliability.
- Shared facility - allows you to provide services at a lower cost compared to dedicated.
- You can send any kind of data or voice traffic as long as you also provide dial-tone service to your customer - allows you to offer a variety of services.
- Simultaneous two-way transmission - increases speed and provides cost-efficiency.
Product Details
Unbundled Interoffice Transport from CenturyLink provides transmission between central offices located in the same LATA. There are two types of transport: shared and dedicated.
Shared Interoffice Transport transport carries transmission from several different carriers, including CenturyLink.
Dedicated Interoffice Transport gives you exclusive use of the interoffice facility. It includes:
- DS1 service: Unbundled dedicated DS1 transport consists of a two-point digital channel, which provides for simultaneous two-way transmission of serial bipolar return-to-zero isochronous digital electrical signals at a transmission rate of 1.544 megabits per second (MBPS).
- DS3 service: Unbundled dedicated DS3 transport consists of a two-point digital channel, which provides for simultaneous two-way transmission of serial, bipolar, return-to-zero isochronous digital electrical signals at a transmission rate of 44.736 megabits per second (MBPS).
- Access to unbundled dedicated DS1 transport is from your central office or from your collocation arrangement with CenturyLink via an appropriate cross-connection made on the Digital Signal Cross-connect (DSX).
Business Applications
Unbundled Interoffice Transport from CenturyLink provides transmission between central offices located in the same LATA.
Last Update: July 21, 2017