Existing Interconnection Arrangements Sample Clauses
Existing Interconnection Arrangements. In any LATA where the Parties are already interconnected prior to the effective date of this Agreement, BTI may maintain existing IPs, except that Verizon may request in writing to transition such BTI-IPs to the BTI-IPs described in subsections 7.1.1.1 and 7.1.1.2,above. Upon such request, the Parties shall negotiate a mutually satisfactory arrangements for the transition to IPs that conform to subsections 7.1.1.1 and 7.1.1.2, above. If the Parties have not reached agreement on such arrangements within thirty (30) days, (a) either Party may pursue available dispute resolution mechanisms; and, (b) BTI shall ▇▇▇▇ and Verizon shall pay only the lesser of the negotiated intercarrier compensation rate or the End Office reciprocal compensation rate for relevant traffic, less Verizon's transport rate, tandem switching rate (to the extent traffic is tandem switched), and other costs (to the extent that Verizon purchases such transport from BTI or a third party), from Verizon's originating End Office to the BTI IP.
7.1. 2Except as otherwise agreed by the Parties, the Interconnection Points (“IPs”) from which Verizon will provide transport and termination of Local Traffic to its Customers (“Verizon-IPs”) shall be as follows:
7.1.2. 1For Local Traffic delivered by BTI to the Verizon Tandem subtended by the terminating End Office serving the Verizon Customer, the Verizon-IP will be the Verizon Tandem Wire Center.
7.1.2. 2For Local Traffic delivered by BTI to the Verizon terminating End Office Wire Center serving the Verizon Customer, the Verizon-IP will be Verizon End Office Wire Center.
7.1. 3Should either Party offer additional IPs to any Telecommunications Carrier that is not a Party to this Agreement, the other Party may elect to deliver traffic to such IPs for the NXXs or functionalities served by those IPs. To the extent that any such BTI-IP is not located at a Collocation site at a Verizon Tandem Wire Center or Verizon End Office Wire Center, then BTI shall permit Verizon to establish physical Interconnection through collocation or other operationally comparable arrangements acceptable to Verizon at the BTI-IP, to the extent such physical Interconnection is technically feasible.
7.1. 4Each Party is responsible for delivering its Local Traffic that is to be terminated by the other Party to the other Party’s relevant IP.
Existing Interconnection Arrangements. For those LATAs in which Verizon and TelCove have already implemented network interconnection as of the Effective Date, Verizon may purchase from TelCove the transport facilities mutually agreed by the Parties as identified by the circuit IDs listed on Attachment 2 to this Amendment. The Parties agree that such facilities shall be used only for the transport of Verizon originated traffic and that notwithstanding any other provision of this Amendment, Verizon shall have no obligation to pay TelCove for such transport facilities under this paragraph to the extent such facilities are used for the transport of traffic originated by TelCove. TelCove shall have the right to ▇▇▇▇ Verizon (and Verizon shall pay TelCove subject to the applicable payment provisions of the Interconnection Agreements) for the transport facilities identified by the circuit IDs listed on Attachment 2 to this Amendment. TelCove’s transport billing for said circuit IDs shall include only the following rate elements: airline mileage (if necessary) within a LATA as identified in Attachment 2; entrance facility (non-distance sensitive); multiplexing, if necessary; and terminations. Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the underlying Interconnection Agreement, the rate for transport facilities TelCove provides to Verizon for the circuit IDs listed on Attachment 2 shall be to the lower of: (i) forty-five percent (45%) of TelCove’s then current tariffed intrastate access rate for the applicable transport (said tariffed intrastate access rate as of the Effective Date being set forth in Attachment 2); or (ii) forty-five percent (45%) of Verizon’s then current tariffed intrastate access rate for the applicable transport. In those LATAs where Verizon and TelCove have already implemented network interconnection as of the Effective Date, but for which no transport facilities (circuit IDs) are identified on Attachment 2 to this Amendment, Verizon shall have no obligation to purchase transport facilities from TelCove and TelCove shall have no right to ▇▇▇▇ Verizon for transport facilities, provided, however, in such LATAs, Verizon may elect to purchase transport facilities from TelCove subject to the provisions of paragraph 3(b) of this Amendment (and all other applicable provisions of this Amendment) or self-provision such transport facilities in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3(d) of this Amendment. In addition, for the LATAs described in this paragraph in which TelCove has adopted ...
Existing Interconnection Arrangements. In any LATA where the Parties are already interconnected prior to the effective date of this Agreement, BTI may maintain existing IPs, except that Verizon may request in writing to transition such BTI-IPs to the BTI-IPs described in subsections 7.1.1.1 and 7.1.1.2,above. Upon such request, the Parties shall negotiate a mutually satisfactory arrangements for the transition to IPs that conform to subsections 7.1.1.1 and 7.1.1.2, above. If the Parties have not reached agreement on such arrangements within thirty (30) days, (a) either Party may pursue available dispute resolution mechanisms; and, (b) BTI shall bill and Verizon shall pay only the lesser of the negotiated intercarrier compensation rate or the End Office reciprocal compensation rate for relevant traffic, less Verizon's transport rate, tandem switching rate (to the extent traffic is tandem switched), and other costs (to the extent that Verizon purchases such transport from BTI or a third party), from Verizon's originating End Office to the BTI IP.