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8.9 BellSouth’s Carrier Interconnection Switching Center (CISC) will notify TC
SYTEMS of any under-utilized BellSouth Final Trunk Groups and the number of
such trunk groups that BellSouth wishes to disconnect. BellSouth will provide
supporting information either by email or facsimile to the designated TC SYTEMS
interface. TC SYTEMS will provide concurrence with the disconnection in fourteen
(14) business days or will provide specific information supporting why the trunks
should not be disconnected. If TC SYTEMS fails to provide such information, TC
SYTEMS shall be considered to have concurred with BellSouth’s request. Such
supporting information should include expected traffic volumes (including traffic
volumes generated due to Local Number Portability) and the timeframes within
which TC SYTEMS expects to need such trunks. BellSouth’s LISC Project
Manager and Circuit Capacity Manager will discuss the information with TC
SYTEMS to determine if agreement can be reached on the number of BellSouth
Final Trunk Groups to be removed. If no agreement can be reached, BellSouth will
issue disconnect orders to TC SYTEMS. The due date of these orders will be four
weeks after TC SYTEMS was first notified in writing of the underutilization of the
trunk groups.
8.10 To the extent that any interconnection trunk group is utilized at a time-consistent
busy hour of eighty percent (80%) or greater, the Parties may review the trunk
groups and, if necessary, shall negotiate in good faith for the installation of
augmented facilities.
8.11 Each Party shall provide a specified point of contact for planning, forecasting and
trunk servicing purposes.
8.12 Both Parties will manage the capacity of their interconnection trunk groups.
BellSouth will issue an ASR to TC SYTEMS to order changes BellSouth desires to
the BellSouth interconnection trunk groups based on BellSouth’s capacity
assessment. TC SYTEMS will issue an ASR to BellSouth to order changes TC
SYTEMS desires to the TC SYTEMS interconnection trunk groups based on TC
SYTEMS’s capacity assessment.
8.13 Either Party may issue a Trunk Group Service Request (“TGSR”) to the other Party
to order changes it desires to the interconnection trunk groups based on its capacity
assessment. The Party receiving the TGSR will, within ten (10) business days,
respond with an ASR or an explanation of why it believes an ASR is inappropriate.
8.14 The Party submitting an ASR will provide complete and accurate tie down inventory
assignments in typical industry bay, panel and jack format, or in such other format as
the Parties agree, on each order by use of a Design Layout Record. Additional tie
down information, such as span information, may be required when applicable.
8.15 The Parties will prepare ASRs pursuant to the industry standard guidelines of the
OBF. When submitting an ASR, BellSouth will identify TC SYTEMS’s end office
in the SEC LOC field of the ASR form.
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