TC Systems, Inc. South Carolina - AT&T Clec Online

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Attachment 4 - Remote Site
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requested equipment is necessary based on the criteria established by the FCC.
Multifunctional equipment placed on the BellSouth Premises must not place any
greater relative burden on BellSouth’s property than comparable single function
equipment.
5.4 Whenever BellSouth objects to collocation of equipment by TC SYSTEMS for
purposes within the scope of section 25 1 (c) (6) of the Act, BellSouth shall prove to
the state commission that the equipment is not necessary for interconnection or access
to unbundled network elements under the standards set forth above in this Section.
BellSouth may not object to the collocation of equipment on the grounds that the
equipment does not comply with safety or engineering standards that are more
stringent than the safety or engineering standards that BellSouth applies to its own
equipment. BellSouth may not object to the collocation of equipment on the ground
that the equipment fails to comply with Network Equipment and Building
Specifications performance standards or any other performance standards. If
BellSouth denies collocation of TC SYSTEMS’s equipment, citing safety standards,
BellSouth must provide to TC SYSTEMS within five (5) business days of the denial a
list of all equipment that BellSouth locates at the premises in question, together with
an affidavit attesting that all of that equipment meets or exceeds the safety standard
that Bellsouth contends TC SYSTEMS’s equipment fails to meet. This affidavit must
set forth in detail: the exact safety requirement that TC SYSTEMS’s equipment does
not satisfy; BellSouth’s basis for concluding that TC SYSTEMS’s equipment does not
meet this safety requirement; and BellSouth’s basis for concluding why collocation of
equipment not meeting this safety requirement would compromise network safety.
5.5 All TC SYSTEMS equipment installation shall comply with BellSouth TR 73503-11h,
“Grounding - Engineering Procedures”. Metallic cable sheaths and metallic strength
members of optical fiber cables as well as the metallic cable sheaths of all copper
conductor cables shall be bonded to the designated grounding bus for the Remote Site
Location. All copper conductor pairs, working and non-working, shall be equipped
with a solid-state protector unit (over-voltage protection only), which has been listed
by a nationally recognized testing laboratory.
5.6 Commencing with the most current calendar quarter after the effective date of this
Attachment, and thereafter with respect to each subsequent calendar quarter during
the term of this Attachment, TC SYSTEMS will, no later than thirty (30) days after
the close of such calendar quarter, provide a report to ICS Collocation Product
Management, Room 34A55, 675 W. Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30375 listing
any equipment in the Remote Collocation Space that was added during the calendar
quarter for which there is a UCC-1 lien holder or another entity that has a secured
financial interest in such equipment. This shall be defined as “Secured Equipment”. If
no Secured Equipment has been installed within a given calendar quarter, no report
shall be due hereunder in connection with such calendar quarter.
CCCS 284 of 433