Optical Telecommunications, Inc.

2.7.4 Technical Requirements
Version: 2Q05 Standard ICA - New
07/06/05
Attachment 2
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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 End User’s customer premises and the distribution
media and/or cross-connect to OTI’s NID.
2.7.4.3 Existing BellSouth NIDs will be operational and provided in “as is” condition.
OTI may request BellSouth to do additional work to the NID on a time and
material basis. When OTI deploys its own local loops in a multiple-line
termination device, OTI shall specify the quantity of NID connections that it
requires within such device.
2.8 Subloop Elements.
2.8.1 Where facilities permit, BellSouth shall offer access to its Unbundled Subloop
(USL) elements as specified herein.
2.8.2 Unbundled Subloop Distribution (USLD)
2.8.2.1 The USLD facility is a dedicated transmission facility that BellSouth provides from
an End User’s point of demarcation to a BellSouth cross-connect device. The
BellSouth 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. BellSouth will make available the following subloop distribution offerings
where facilities exist:
USLD – Voice Grade (USLD-VG)
Unbundled Copper Subloop (UCSL)
USLD – Intrabuilding Network Cable (USLD-INC (aka riser cable))
2.8.2.2 USLD-VG is a copper subloop facility from the cross-box in the field up to and
including the point of demarcation at the End User’s premises and may have load
coils.
2.8.2.3 UCSL is a copper facility eighteen thousand (18,000) feet or less in length
provided from the cross-box in the field up to and including the End User’s point
of demarcation. If available, this facility will not have any intervening equipment
such as load coils between the End User and the cross-box.
2.8.2.3.1 If OTI requests a UCSL and it is not available, OTI may request the copper
Subloop facility be modified pursuant to the ULM process to remove load coils
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