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within BellSouth's network and in accord with all appropriate relevant industryaccepted
quality, reliability and availability standards. Trunks provided by either
Party for Interconnection services will be engineered using an average busy hour
design blocking objective of B.01;
13.2 the respective duties and responsibilities of the Parties with respect to the
administration and maintenance of the trunk groups, including, but not limited to,
standards and procedures for notification and discoveries of trunk disconnects;
13.3 migration from one-way to two-way Interconnection Trunks upon mutual
agreement of the Parties;
13.4 the procedures to govern any TC SYTEMS request for information concerning
available BellSouth network facilities; and
13.5 additional technically feasible and geographically relevant IPs or methods of
Interconnection; and
13.6 such other matters as the Parties may agree, including, e.g., End Office to End
Office high usage trunks as good engineering practices may dictate.
14 Interconnection Compensation
14.1 Reciprocal Compensation includes all telecommunications traffic (including ISP-
Bound Traffic as that term is defined herein) exchanged pursuant to this Agreement,
other than Exchange Access Traffic as defined in Section 14.12.1 or Transit Traffic
as defined in Section 18 of this Attachment. The Parties shall bill each other for all
Reciprocal Compensation Traffic as set forth in Sections 14.7 et seq. except for the
following types of traffic:
14.1.1 Traffic as defined in Section 14.8.1.2 of this Attachment; and
14.1.1.1 Transit Traffic as defined in Section 18 of this Attachment.
14.2 For avoidance of any doubt about the scope of Reciprocal Compensation Traffic,
and without limiting the foregoing reference to “all telecommunications traffic,” the
Parties agree that the following types of traffic shall be compensated as Reciprocal
Compensation Traffic in accordance with this Section:
14.2.1 ISP-bound Traffic is defined as calls to an information service provider or Internet
service provider (“ISP”) that are dialed by using a local dialing pattern (7 or 10
digits) by a calling party in one LATA to an ISP server or modem in the same LATA
and is a subset of “information access”. Information access is defined as the
provision of specialized exchange telecommunications services in connection with
the origination, termination, transmission, switching, forwarding or routing of
telecommunications traffic to or from the facilities of a provider of information
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