Technical References. 23.19.1 This Agreement contains technical references for unbundled network elements, ancillary services, and interconnection facilities. Due to the manner in which individual equipment manufacturers have chosen to implement industry standards into the design of their products, along with differing vintages of individual facility components and the presence of embedded technologies that pre-date current technical references, individual facility components deployed within GTE’s network need not meet or adhere to, and may differ significantly from, the technical references included in this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit GTE from improving or otherwise modifying its network, including, but not limited to, improvements or modifications to individual facility components, and such improvements or modifications need not meet or adhere to any of the technical references cited throughout this Agreement. Accordingly, the Parties acknowledge and agree that the technical references contained in this Agreement shall be used only by them as a reference for their own internal network and operational service planning for unbundled network elements, ancillary services, and interconnection facilities. The technical references contained in this Agreement shall not, however, be interpreted to require GTE to satisfy any of its obligations set forth in this Agreement in accordance with any specification set forth therein.
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