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Unbundled Dedicated DS1
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering that provides a high-capacity digital transmission path that is dedicated to the use of the ordering CLEC in its provisioning of local exchange and associated exchange access services. Learn more.
Unbundled Dedicated DS3
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering that provides a high-capacity digital transmission path that is dedicated to the use of the ordering CLEC in its provisioning of local exchange and associated exchange access services. Learn more.
Unbundled Dedicated Trunk Ports
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering; a switch termination on a Verizon switch (i.e., end office, Traffic Operator Position System [TOPS] or Operator Services Position System [OSPS]) dedicated to the use of the CLEC in its provisioning of local exchange and associated exchange access services. Learn more.
Unbundled Loop (Unbundled Local Loop Element or UL)
A transmission path that extends from a Main
Distribution Frame, DSX-panel, or functionally comparable piece of equipment
in the customer's serving end office to the Rate
Demarcation Point (or network
interface device, if installed) in or at a customer's premises. The actual
loop transmission facilities used to provide an ULL may utilize any of several
technologies.
Unbundled Network Element (UNE)
Specific equipment and facilities that are "unbundled" from traditional
end-to-end services (such as residential dial tone service) in order to allow
other local exchange carriers
to use components of Verizon's network. An example of a network element would
be a loop connected not to a Verizon switch,
but to a competitor carrier's switch.
Unbundled Network Element-Platform (UNE-P)
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering that combines elements that can be used to build a variety of platforms. UNE-P is also known as 'platform'.
Unbundled Port
An interface (port) on a local switching
system, that is not bundled with a loop or transport facility, that provides
access to and from the switch and the functionality
of the local switching system.
Unbundled Shared Trunk Ports
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering providing a switch termination that is used in conjunction with Verizon's unbundled switch and shared Interoffice Facility (IOF) transport infrastructure. See Unbundled Dedicated Trunk Ports. Learn more.
Unbundled Shared IOF
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering that provides routing for CLECs by using multiple interoffice transmission paths over non-dedicated facilities. Learn more.
Unbundled Subloops
A Verizon Wholesale UNE service offering that provides CLECs access to Verizon's copper distribution pairs and facilities. Learn more.
Unbundling
Term used to describe the access facilities that incumbent
local exchange carriers must provide in order that other service providers
may buy or lease portions of its network elements,
such as interconnection loops to serve subscribers.
UOM (Unified Ordering Model)
Verizon's web services solution for real-time Access Service Requests (ASRs) processing.
Universal Resource Locator
An address on the World Wide Web. Known as URL.
Universal Service
This term describes the financial support mechanisms (a universal fund) that
help compensate local exchange carriers
or other communication entities to provide access to telecommunications services
at affordable rates to rural, insular and other high cost areas, and to public
institutions.
Universal Service Fund
see Federal Universal Service Fund.
Universal Service Order Code (USOC)
Three-to-five character alphanumeric codes found in the Service and Equipment
(S&E) Section of a service order. These codes are used to describe a particular
product, service or data element. (For example, the USOC "ESX" represents
POTS call waiting.)
UNE
See Unbundled Network Element.
Unicast Address
An address that specifies a single network device.
Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)
Four-pair wire medium used in the transmission of many different telecommunications
protocols such as Ethernet,
10BaseT,
and CDDI.
URL
See Universal Resource Locator.
Usage Charges
For CLECs using Verizon unbundled local switching, Verizon delivers end user usage data to the CLEC each Verizon business day via the Daily Usage File (DUF). The usage data includes a level of detail that enables the CLEC to bill each of its end users for telephone services.
Usage Returns
Usage records that Verizon has sent to a CLEC
or Reseller and which the CLEC or Reseller has
returned for one of the following reasons: incomplete record, invalid field,
record misdirected, duplicate record, damaged information, or unreadable record.
User Network Interface (UNI)
The protocol defines connections between ATM
end-stations and the ATM switch including signaling, cell structure, addressing,
traffic management, and adaptation layers.
User Parameter Control (UPC)
Traffic policing to ensure that the defined peak traffic rate is not exceeded
in the ATM switch.
USOC
See Universal Service Order Code.
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