Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. 5.2.1 The Parties shall jointly establish Access Toll Connecting Trunks between CLEC and CBT by which they will jointly provide Tandem-transported Switched Exchange Access Services to Interexchange Carriers to enable such Interexchange Carriers to originate and terminate traffic from and to CLEC's Customers.
5.2.2 Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be used solely for the transmission and routing of Exchange Access and non-translated Toll Free traffic (e.g., 800/888) to allow CLEC’s Customers to connect to or be connected to the interexchange trunks of any Interexchange Carrier that is connected to the CBT access Tandem.
5.2.3 The Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be one-way or two-way trunks, as mutually agreed, connecting an End Office Switch that CLEC utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access Service in the given LATA to an access Tandem Switch CBT utilizes to provide Exchange Access in the LATA.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. The Parties shall jointly engineer and configure Local/IntraLATA Trunks over the physical Interconnection arrangements as follows:
4.3.1 The Parties shall mutually agree to initially configure either a one (1)-way or two (2)-way trunk group as a direct transmission path through the Interconnection Point(s) specified in Schedule 2.1. CLEC shall specify the Digital Signal Level of the trunk facilities (e.g., DSO, DS1 or higher, where available) consistent with the forecasting requirements in Section 19.5.2.
4.3.2 CBT shall ensure that each Tandem connection permits the transport of traffic to all End Offices that sub-tend such Tandem to which transport is technically feasible. Each Party shall establish and maintain separate logical trunk groups connected to each CBT Tandem that serves, or is sub-tended by End Offices that serve, Customers within the Exchange Areas served by such Tandem Switches. Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. The Parties shall jointly engineer and configure Local/IntraLATA Trunks over the physical Interconnection arrangements as follows:
IV.3.1 Each Party shall initially configure a one (1)-way trunk group or, upon mutual agreement of the Parties, a two (2) way trunk group, as a direct transmission path between each RICO and AICO. If two (2) way trunk groups are established, each Party shall be responsible for fifty percent (50%) of the transport between the points of Interconnection.
IV.3.2 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article IV, if the traffic volumes originated by a Party between any two (2) Central Office Switches at any time exceeds the CCS busy hour equivalent of one (1) DS1, that Party shall, within sixty (60) days after such occurrence, establish new direct trunk groups to the applicable End Office(s). As traffic volumes increase, the Parties shall add additional direct trunk groups (24 DS0s) between any two (2) Central Offices for every increment of traffic that equals or exceeds the CCS busy hour equivalent of one (1) DS1. At no time shall the traffic between two (2) Central Offices, routed via Ameritech’s Tandem Switch, exceed 500 busy hour CCS.
IV.3.3 Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office.
IV.3.4 Each Party shall ensure that each Tandem connection permits the completion of traffic to all End Offices which sub-tend that Tandem as identified in the Local Exchange Routing Guide (“LERG”). To the extent that a Party desires the ubiquitous delivery of traffic within an Exchange Area, each Party shall establish and maintain Logical Trunk Groups and separate physical facilities for such Logical Trunk Groups connected to each Tandem of the other Party which serves, or is sub-tended by End Offices which serve, such other Party’s Customers within the Exchange Areas served by such Tandem Switches. Requesting Carrier shall either provide Logical Trunk Groups and such facilities for Logical Trunk Groups or purchase Logical Trunk Groups and such facilities for Logical Trunk Groups from Ameritech at the rates for Switched Access set forth in Ameritech’s access tariffs. If a Central Office Switch provides both Tandem and End Office functionality, Interconnection by a Party at such Central Office Switch shall provide access to Tandem and End Office functionality. A Party’s NXX must home on the Tandem Switch that is in the same state as the specified NXX Rate Cen...
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. 6.2.1 Covad shall establish Access Toll Connecting Trunks by which it will provide tandem-transported Switched Exchange Access Services to Interexchange Carriers to enable such Interexchange Carriers to originate and terminate traffic to and from Covad's Customers.
6.2.2 Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be used solely for the transmission and routing of Exchange Access to allow Covad's Customers to connect to or be connected to the interexchange trunks of any Interexchange Carrier which is connected to a BA Tandem.
6.2.3 The Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be two-way trunks connecting an End Office Switch Covad utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access in a given LATA to a Tandem BA utilizes to provide Exchange Access in such LATA.
6.2.4 The Parties shall jointly determine which BA Tandem(s) will be subtended by each Covad End Office Switch. Covad's End Office switch shall subtend the BA Tandem that would have served the same rate center on BA's network. Alternative configurations will be discussed as part of the Joint Implementation and Grooming Process.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. 5.2.1 CLEC shall establish Access Toll Connecting Trunks in GR-394-Core format by which it will provide Tandem-transported Switched Exchange Access Services to Interexchange Carriers to enable such Interexchange Carriers to originate and terminate traffic from and to CLEC's Customers.
5.2.2 Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be used solely for the transmission and routing of (Feature Group B and D) Exchange Access and 800/888 traffic to allow each Party’s Customers to connect to or be connected to the interexchange trunks of any Interexchange Carrier which is connected to the other Party’s access Tandem.
5.2.3 The Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be two-way trunks connecting an End Office Switch that CLEC utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access Service in a given LATA to an access Tandem Switch SBC ILLINOIS utilizes to provide Exchange Access in such LATA. The Access Toll Connecting Trunks may, at CLEC’s election, be 64 Kb Clear Channel trunks or 56Kb trunks. The parties agree that this Agreement does not limit CLEC from requesting other bandwidth levels or trunking parameters and SBC ILLINOIS agrees that its acceptance of such a request will not be unreasonably withheld.
5.2.4 In each LATA where the parties are interconnected, each CLEC Switch Center in that LATA shall subtend a SBC ILLINOIS access Tandem in that LATA.
5.2.5 Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. 5.2.1 The Parties shall jointly establish Access Toll Connecting Trunks by which they will jointly provide Tandem-transported Switched Exchange Access Services to Interexchange Carriers to enable such Interexchange Carriers to originate and terminate traffic from and to Requesting Carrier’s Customers.
5.2.2 Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be used solely for the transmission and routing of Exchange Access, nontranslated 800 and 976 traffic to allow Requesting Carrier’s Customers to connect to or be connected to the interexchange trunks of any Interexchange Carrier which is connected to an Ameritech access Tandem.
5.2.3 The Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be two-way trunks connecting an End Office Switch that Requesting Carrier utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access Service in a given LATA to an access Tandem Switch Ameritech utilizes to provide Exchange Access in such LATA.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. 39.2.1 The Parties shall jointly establish Access Toll Connecting Trunks by which they will jointly provide Tandem transported Switched Exchange Access Services to Interexchange Carriers to enable such Interexchange Carriers to originate and terminate traffic from and to AT&T's customers.
39.2.2 Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be used solely for the transmission and routing of Exchange Access and nontranslated 800/888 traffic to allow AT&T’s customers to connect to or be connected to the interexchange trunks of any Interexchange Carrier which is connected to a GTE access Tandem.
39.2.3 The Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be two way trunks connecting an End Office Switch that AT&T utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access Service in a given LATA to an access Tandem Switch GTE utilizes to provide Exchange Access in such LATA.
39.2.4 The Parties shall jointly determine which GTE access Tandem(s) will be sub-tended by each AT&T End Office Switch.
39.2.5 Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. The Parties shall jointly engineer and configure Local/IntraLATA Trunks over the physical Interconnection arrangements as follows:
38.3.1 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section, if the traffic volumes between any two Central Office Switches at any time exceeds the CCS busy hour equivalent of one DS1, the Parties shall within sixty (60) days after such occurrence establish new direct trunk groups to the applicable End Office(s) consistent with the grades of service and quality parameters set forth in the Grooming Plan.
38.3.2 Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office.
38.3.3 Each Party shall ensure that each Tandem connection permits the completion of traffic to all End Offices which sub-tend that Tandem or to End Offices which sub-tend an additional Tandem, provided, that AT&T enters into an appropriate billing arrangement pursuant to Section 38.3.4. Alternatively, each Party shall establish and maintain separate trunk groups connected to each Tandem of the other Party which serves, or is sub-tended by End Offices which serve, such other Party's customers within the Exchange Areas served by such Tandem Switches.
38.3.4 GTE will provide tandem to tandem switching to AT&T. AT&T shall enter into an appropriate billing arrangement with GTE to ensure recovery of inter-tandem switching costs at rates established by the Commission.
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. The Parties shall jointly engineer and configure Local/IntraLATA Trunks over the physical Interconnection arrangements as follows:
4.3.1 Each Party shall provision and maintain their own one (1)-way trunks to deliver calls originating on their own network and routed to the other Party’s network. SBC- AMERITECH will be responsible for providing all transport from its customers to the CLEC switching center. CLEC will be responsible for costs of trunking and transport from its customers to SBC-AMERITECH end offices. If CLEC establishes direct connections to SBC- AMERITECH end offices, the charges it must pay SBC-AMERITECH will reflect that arrangement. If CLEC interconnects at the tandem and uses one or more SBC-AMERITECH transport offerings to reach SBC-AMERITECH end offices, the charges will be calculated according to the offerings used.
4.3.2 A one-way trunk group for ancillary services (e.g. OS/DA, mass calling, 911) can be established between an CLEC Switch Center and an SBC-AMERITECH Tandem. This trunk group will utilize Signaling System 7 (“SS7”) or multi-frequency (“MF”) signaling protocol, with SS7 signaling preferred whenever possible. CLEC will have administrative control of one-way trunk groups from CLEC to SBC-AMERITECH (CLEC originating).
4.3.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article IV, if the traffic volumes between any SBC-AMERITECH End Office and CLEC Switch Center at any time exceeds the CCS busy hour equivalent of one (1) DS1, the Parties shall, within sixty (60) days after such occurrence, establish new direct trunk groups to the applicable End Office(s) consistent with the grades of service and quality parameters set forth in the Plan.
4.3.4 Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office. The source for the routing information for all traffic, including miscellaneous calls (e.g., time, weather, 976), shall be the LERG, unless otherwise agreed to between the Parties.
4.3.5 SBC-AMERITECH will provide the facilities between each SBC- AMERITECH Tandem Switch and the SBC-AMERITECH End Office(s) sub-tending that Tandem Switch. SBC-AMERITECH shall ensure that each Tandem Switch permits the completion of traffic to all End Offices that sub-tend that Tandem Switch.
4.3.6 [Intentionally Omitted].
4.3.7 [Intentionally Omitted].
4.3.8 SBC-AMERITECH deploys in its network Tandems that switch local only traffic, Tandems that switch IntraLATA and InterLATA tra...
Trunk Group Architecture and Traffic Routing. V.2.1 The Parties shall jointly establish Access Toll Connecting Trunks by which they will jointly provide Tandem-transported Switched Exchange Access Services to Interexchange Carriers to enable such Interexchange Carriers to originate and terminate traffic from and to CLEC's Customers.
V.2.2 Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be used solely for the transmission and routing of Exchange Access and nontranslated 800/888 traffic to allow CLEC’s Customers to connect to or be connected to the interexchange trunks of any Interexchange Carrier which is connected to an Ameritech access Tandem.
V.2.3 The Access Toll Connecting Trunks shall be two-way trunks connecting an End Office Switch that CLEC utilizes to provide Telephone Exchange Service and Switched Exchange Access Service in a given LATA to an access Tandem Switch Ameritech utilizes to provide Exchange Access in such LATA.
V.2.4 In each LATA identified on Schedule 2.1, each CLEC End Office Switch in that LATA shall subtend each Ameritech access Tandem in that LATA.
V.2.5 Only those valid NXX codes served by an End Office may be accessed through a direct connection to that End Office.
ARTICLE VI MEET-POINT BILLING ARRANGEMENTS
