Sentence examples for switching offices from inspiring English sources

Different rules apply to the shorter cables linking switching offices to major business customers.

Mrs. Rell, a Republican who ran with Mr. Rowland in 1994, is not the only one switching offices.

These installations were made, she says, at "switching offices" that not only connect foreign and domestic communications but also handle purely domestic traffic.

On seeing Vieira de Mello's corner office, whose several windows overlooked the road, Alain Chergui, the bodyguard, thought about snipers, and suggested switching offices.

While the technology offers high performance over existing wires, it can reach customers only within a short distance of central switching offices.

Moreover, packet-switching gear takes up less space than circuit switches, potentially allowing phone companies to use fewer and smaller central switching offices.

Four channels each carried signals at speeds to 2.5 Gbit/s-the top rate between company switching offices-and the Ciena-built system has slots for up to 16 wavelength channels.

A switching office for local service was badly damaged by falling debris and burst water pipes.

What a switching office does is switch a call from a local telephone line, which physically connects the telephone in someone's home or office with the switching office, to a long-distance trunk line that will carry it to the switching office nearest its destination.

That distant switching office then switches the call back onto a local line directly connected to the phone number the caller dialed.

A user has to be within a few miles of a telephone switching office for DSL to work, and signal strength degrades even within that distance.