EV607797,
Well… I don’t think a LEC can use a different format. You may see some ckt id’s that are not even close to what I describe from Inter-exchange companies, interconnect providers and even some CLEC’s. Those will also be listed on demarc tags and if you’d call say VZ and try to give them say a Sprint ckt id (8 numeric characters only) they’re not going to be able to cross-reference it at all… Believe me, we have that SAME problem on this side of the demarc at times too.

As far as standardization goes… ‘Bout 4 years ago Telcordia (once was Bell-Core, now the GODs of Common Language coding) started a process to get all LEC’s RBOC or independents on the same page with our own dialects of telephone-ese. There are still “homegrown coding” with each company BUT that has been going away little by little over time.

Thanks, for the welcome… GO FAST TURN LEFT!!!

Thanks,
Bryan

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Bryan
LEC Provisioning Engineer
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