§ 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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