§  64.1401   Expanded interconnection.

   (a) Every local exchange carrier that is classified as a Class A
   company under §  32.11 of this chapter and that is not a National
   Exchange Carrier Association interstate tariff participant, as provided
   in part 69, subpart G of this chapter, shall offer expanded
   interconnection for interstate special access services at their central
   offices that are classified as end offices or serving wire centers, and
   at other rating points used for interstate special access.

   (b) The local exchange carriers specified in paragraph (a) of this
   section shall offer expanded interconnection for interstate switched
   transport services:

   (1) In their central offices that are classified as end offices or
   serving wire centers, as well as at all tandem offices housed in
   buildings containing such carriers' end offices or serving wire centers
   for which interstate switched transport expanded interconnection has
   been tariffed;

   (2) Upon bona fide request, in tandem offices housed in buildings not
   containing such carriers' end offices or serving wire centers, or in
   buildings containing the carriers' end offices or serving wire centers
   for which interstate switched transport expanded interconnection has
   not been tariffed; and

   (3) Upon bona fide request, at remote nodes/switches that serve as
   rating points for interstate switched transport and that are capable of
   routing outgoing interexchange access traffic to interconnectors and in
   which interconnectors can route terminating traffic to such carriers.
   No such carrier is required to enhance remote nodes/switches or to
   build additional space to accommodate interstate switched transport
   expanded interconnection at these locations.

   (c) The local exchange carriers specified in paragraph (a) of this
   section shall offer expanded interconnection for interstate special
   access and switched transport services through virtual collocation,
   except that they may offer physical collocation, instead of virtual
   collocation, in specific central offices, as a service subject to
   non-streamlined communications common carrier regulation under Title II
   of the Communications Act (47 U.S.C. 201-228).

   (d) For the purposes of this subpart, physical collocation means an
   offering that enables interconnectors:

   (1) To place their own equipment needed to terminate basic transmission
   facilities, including optical terminating equipment and multiplexers,
   within or upon the local exchange carrier's central office buildings;

   (2) To use such equipment to connect interconnectors' fiber optic
   systems or microwave radio transmission facilities (where reasonably
   feasible) with the local exchange carrier's equipment and facilities
   used to provide interstate special access services;

   (3) To enter the local exchange carrier's central office buildings,
   subject to reasonable terms and conditions, to install, maintain, and
   repair the equipment described in paragraph (d)(1) of this section; and

   (4) To obtain reasonable amounts of space in central offices for the
   equipment described in paragraph (d)(1) of this section, allocated on a
   first-come, first-served basis.

   (e) For purposes of this subpart, virtual collocation means an offering
   that enables interconnectors:

   (1) To designate or specify equipment needed to terminate basic
   transmission facilities, including optical terminating equipment and
   multiplexers, to be located within or upon the local exchange carrier's
   buildings, and dedicated to such interconnectors' use,

   (2) To use such equipment to connect interconnectors' fiber optic
   systems or microwave radio transmission facilities (where reasonably
   feasible) with the local exchange carrier's equipment and facilities
   used to provide interstate special and switched access services, and

   (3) To monitor and control their communications channels terminating in
   such equipment.

   (f) Under both physical collocation offering and virtual collocation
   offerings for expanded interconnection of fiber optic facilities, local
   exchange carriers shall provide:

   (1) An interconnection point or points at which the fiber optic cable
   carrying an interconnectors' circuits can enter each local exchange
   carrier location, provided that the local exchange carrier shall
   designate interconnection points as close as reasonably possible to
   each location; and

   (2) At least two such interconnection points at any local exchange
   carrier location at which there are at least two entry points for the
   local exchange carrier's cable facilities, and space is available for
   new facilities in at least two of those entry points.

   (g) The local exchange carriers specified in paragraph (a) of this
   section shall offer signalling for tandem switching, as defined in
   §  69.2(vv) of this chapter, at central offices that are classified as
   equal office end offices or serving wire centers, or at signal transfer
   points if such information is offered via common channel signalling.

   [ 57 FR 54331 , Nov. 18, 1992, as amended at  58 FR 48762 , Sept. 17, 1993;
    59 FR 32930 , June 27, 1994;  59 FR 38930 , Aug. 1, 1994]

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