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Southern Light
1Q08 GENERIC INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT – 03/10/08
the same and the disconnecting Party provides prior notice to the other Party. In such cases, it
shall be the responsibility of the Party disconnecting loop facilities to leave undisturbed the existing
form of electrical protection and to maintain the physical integrity of the NID. It will be Southern
Light’s responsibility to ensure there is no safety hazard, and Southern Light will hold AT&T
harmless for any liability associated with the removal of the AT&T Loop from the AT&T NID.
Furthermore, it shall be the responsibility of the disconnecting Party, once the other Party’s loop
has been disconnected from the NID, to reconnect the disconnected loop to a nationally recognized
testing laboratory listed station protector, which has been grounded as per Article 800 of the
National Electrical Code. If no spare station protector exists in the NID, the disconnected loop must
be appropriately cleared, capped and stored.
2.7.3.3 Southern Light shall not remove or disconnect ground wires from AT&T’s NIDs, enclosures, or
protectors.
2.7.3.4 Southern Light shall not remove or disconnect NID modules, protectors, or terminals from AT&T’s
NID enclosures.
2.7.3.5 Due to the wide variety of NID enclosures and outside plant environments, AT&T will work with
Southern Light to develop specific procedures to establish the most effective means of
implementing this section if the procedures set forth herein do not apply to the NID in question.
2.7.4 Technical Requirements
2.7.4.1 The NID shall provide an accessible point of interconnection and shall maintain a connection to
ground.
2.7.4.2 If an existing NID is accessed, it shall be capable of transferring electrical analog or digital signals
between the customer’s customer premises and the distribution media and/or cross-connect to
Southern Light’s NID.
2.7.4.3 Existing AT&T NIDs will be operational and provided in “as is” condition. Southern Light may
request AT&T to do additional work to the NID on a time and material basis. When Southern Light
deploys its own local loops in a multiple-line termination device, Southern Light shall specify the
quantity of NID connections that it requires within such device.
2.8 Subloop Distribution Elements.
2.8.1 Where facilities permit, AT&T shall offer access to its Unbundled Subloop Distribution (USLD)
elements in accordance with 47 C.F.R. § 51.319(b) as specified herein.
2.8.2 Unbundled Subloop Distribution
2.8.2.1 The USLD facility is a dedicated transmission facility that AT&T provides from a customer’s point of
demarcation to an AT&T cross-connect device. The AT&T cross-connect device may be located
within a remote terminal (RT) or a stand-alone cross-box in the field or in the equipment room of a
building. The USLD media is a copper twisted pair that can be provisioned as a 2-wire or 4-wire
facility. AT&T will make available the following subloop distribution offerings where facilities exist:
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