Common use of Transport of Local Traffic Clause in Contracts

Transport of Local Traffic. As negotiated between the Parties, the exchange of local traffic between the Parties may occur in several ways: a. While the parties anticipate the use of two way trunks for the delivery of local traffic, either Party may elect to provision its own one-way trunks for delivery of local traffic to be terminated on the other Party's network at the "initial" point of interconnection. b. The Parties may elect to purchase transport services from each other or from a third party. Such transport delivers the originating Party's local traffic to the terminating Party's end office or tandem for call termination. Transport may be purchased as either tandem switched transport (which is included in the tandem call termination rate) or direct trunk transport. c. Based on forecasted traffic at Pac-West's busy hour in CCS, where there is a DS1's worth of traffic (512 CCS) between the Pac-West switch and a USWC end office, the Parties agree to provision a dedicated (i.e., direct) two-way trunk group from the Pac-West switch directly to the USWC end office. To the extent that Pac-West has established a collocation arrangement at a USWC end office location, and has available capacity, the Parties agree that Pac-West shall provide two- way direct trunk facilities, when required, from that end office to the Pac-West switch. In all other cases, the direct facility may be provisioned by USWC or Pac-West or a third party. If both Pac-West and USWC desire to provision the facility and cannot otherwise agree, the parties may agree to resolve the dispute through the submission of competitive bids.

Transport of Local Traffic. As negotiated between the Parties, the exchange of local traffic between the Parties may occur in several ways: a. While the parties anticipate the use of two way trunks for the delivery of local traffic, either Party may elect to provision its own one-way trunks for delivery of local traffic to be terminated on the other Party's network at the "initial" point of interconnection. b. The Parties may elect to purchase transport services from each other or from a third party. Such transport delivers the originating Party's local traffic to the terminating Party's end office or tandem for call termination. Transport may be purchased as either tandem switched transport (which is included in the tandem call termination rate) or direct trunk transport. c. Based on forecasted traffic at Pac-WestFocal's busy hour in CCS, where there is a DS1's worth of traffic (512 CCS) between the Pac-West Focal switch and a USWC end office, the Parties agree to provision a dedicated (i.e., direct) two-way trunk group from the Pac-West Focal switch directly to the USWC end office. To the extent that Pac-West Focal has established a collocation arrangement at a USWC end office location, and has available capacity, the Parties agree that Pac-West Focal shall provide two- two-way direct trunk facilities, when required, from that end office to the Pac-West Focal switch. In all other cases, the direct facility may be provisioned by USWC or Pac-West Focal or a third party. If both Pac-West Focal and USWC desire to provision the facility and cannot otherwise agree, the parties may agree to resolve the dispute through the submission of competitive bids.

Transport of Local Traffic. As negotiated between the Parties, the exchange of local traffic between the Parties may occur in several ways: a. While the parties anticipate the use of two way trunks for the delivery of local traffic, either Party may elect to provision its own one-way trunks for delivery of local traffic to be terminated on the other Party's ’s network at the "“initial" ” point of interconnection. b. The Parties may elect to purchase transport services from each other or from a third party. Such transport delivers the originating Party's ’s local traffic to the terminating Party's ’s end office or tandem for call termination. Transport may be purchased as either tandem switched transport (which is included in the tandem call termination rate) or direct trunk transport. c. Based on forecasted traffic at Pac-West's MFS’s busy hour in CCS, where there is a DS1's ’s worth of traffic (512 CCS) between the Pac-West MFS switch and a USWC end office, the Parties agree to provision a dedicated (i.e., direct) two-way trunk group from the Pac-West MFS switch directly to the USWC end office. To the extent that Pac-West MFS has established a collocation arrangement at a USWC end office location, and has available capacity, the Parties agree that Pac-West MFS shall provide two- two-way direct trunk facilities, when required, from that end office to the Pac-West MFS switch. In all other cases, the direct facility may be provisioned by USWC or Pac-West MFS or a third party. If both Pac-West MFS and USWC desire to provision the facility and cannot otherwise agree, the parties may agree to resolve the dispute through the submission of competitive bids.