Communications center


In telecommunication, the term communications center has the following meanings:
  1. An agency charged with the responsibility for handling and controlling communications traffic. The center normally includes a message center, and transmitting and receiving facilities.
  2. A facility that serves as a node for a communications network, is equipped for technical control and maintenance of the circuits originating, transiting, or terminating at the node, may contain message-center facilities, and may serve as a gateway. Synonym comm center.