Network Architecture Requirements. 4.1 XO will establish a physical point of interconnection (POI) in each mandatory local calling area in which it has assigned telephone numbers (NPA/NXXs) in the Local Exchange Routing Guide (LERG). Each Party shall be financially responsible for one hundred percent (100%) of the facilities, trunks, and equipment on its side of the POI.
(a) In California and Illinois, the Parties agree that this section is satisfied if XO (at its sole option) establishes a POI either:
(i) at each access or local tandem in which tandem serving area XO has established a working telephone number local to a rate center in that tandem serving area, and each end office where XO maintains a physical collocation arrangement (but only for those trunk groups associated with that end office); or
(ii) within 15.75 miles of the Vertical and Horizontal coordinate of each rate center where XO has established a working telephone number local to that rate center.
(b) In Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, and Wisconsin, the Parties agree that this section is satisfied if, XO (at its sole option), establishes a POI either:
(i) at each access or local tandem in which tandem serving area XO has established a working telephone number local to a rate center in that tandem serving area, and each end office where XO maintains a physical collocation arrangement (but only for those trunk groups associated with that end office); or
(ii) within each mandatory local calling area where XO has established a working telephone number local to a rate center in that calling area.
(c) The Parties agree that the waivers contained in Section 2.2 with respect to changes in law do not apply to state commission-required changes in the geographic scope or definition of local calling areas. Where the local calling scope has changed, either party may exercise the right to renegotiate the number and location of POIs required under this Further Amendment. This provision shall not be interpreted to affect how the Parties agree to exchange, and compensate one another for, Virtual Foreign Exchange traffic (as defined herein) pursuant to Sections 4, 5, and 6 during the term of this Further Amendment.
(d) XO may, at its sole option, establish a POI by obtaining dedicated Special Access services or facilities from SBC ILECs (without the need for XO equipment, facilities, or collocation at the SBC ILECs’ offices), or services or facilities from a third party, by establishing collocation, by establishing a fiber mee...
