Mid-Span Meets Sample Clauses
Mid-Span Meets. 4.3.1 In addition to the foregoing methods of Interconnection, the Parties may agree, at either Party's request at any time, to establish (i) a Mid-Span Meet arrangement in accordance with the terms of this subsection 4.3 that utilizes either wireless or wireline transmission facilities, or a combination of both, or (ii) a SONET backbone with an electrical interface at the DS-3 level where and on the same terms BA offers such SONET services to other carriers. In the event the Parties agree to adopt a Mid-Span Meet arrangement that utilizes both wireless and wireline facilities, Covad agrees to bear all expenses associated with the purchase of equipment, materials, or services necessary to facilitate a wireless to wireline meet up to and including the optical to electrical multiplexer necessary to effect a fiber hand-off to BA.
4.3.2 The establishment of any Mid-Span Meet arrangement is expressly conditioned upon the Parties' reaching prior agreement on appropriate sizing and forecasting, equipment, ordering, provisioning, maintenance, repair, testing, augment, and compensation procedures and arrangements, reasonable distance limitations, and on any other arrangements necessary to implement the Mid-Span Meet arrangement. Any Mid-Span Meet arrangement requested at a third-party premises is expressly conditioned on the Parties' having sufficient capacity at the requested location to meet such request, on unrestricted 24-hour access for both Parties to the requested location, on other appropriate protections as deemed necessary by either Party, and on an appropriate commitment that such access and other arrangements may not be restricted for a reasonable period.
4.3.3 Mid-Span Meet arrangements shall be used only for the termination of Local Traffic and IntraLATA Toll Traffic unless and until such time as the Parties have agreed to appropriate compensation arrangements relating to the exchange of other types of traffic over such Mid-Span Meet, and only where facilities are available. Any agreement to access unbundled Network Elements via a Mid-Span Meet arrangement shall be conditioned on the resolution of the technical and other issues described in this subsection 4.3, resolution by the joint operations team of additional issues (such as inventory and testing procedures unique to the provision of unbundled Network Elements via a Mid-Span Meet), and, as necessary, completion of a joint operational and technical test. In addition, access to unbundled Network El...
Mid-Span Meets. 4.3.1 In addition to the foregoing methods of Interconnection, the Parties agree, upon either Party's written request, to engage in good faith negotiations concerning the feasibility of interconnecting via a Mid-Span Meet arrangement. Such request may be initiated by either Party no earlier than three (3) months after the initial Interconnection under this Agreement of the Parties' networks in the LATA for which the Mid-Span Meet is requested. Negotiations responding to Mid-Span Meet requests shall be conducted pursuant to the following schedule. The Parties may by agreement in any particular instance modify this schedule or implement it through face-to-face information exchanges.
(a) Good faith discussions shall be initiated by the Parties within thirty (30) days of such written request.
(b) The requesting Party shall provide all information necessary to design a Mid-Span Meet arrangement to the other Party within fifteen (15) days of the initiation of discussions. In the event any additional information is reasonably necessary, the requesting Party shall provide such information within fifteen (15) days of any request therefor.
(c) The other Party shall respond to the requesting Party with a preliminary cost and installation interval, a proposal to undertake a joint operational and technical test, or a technical reason that such request is technically infeasible, within thirty (30) days of receiving all necessary information from the requesting party.
(d) The other Party shall provide to the requesting Party, within thirty (30) days of receipt of definitive authorization from the requesting Party to proceed with the request, a detailed description, cost estimate, and installation interval.
4.3.2 The establishment of any Mid-Span Meet arrangement is expressly conditioned upon the Parties' reaching prior agreement on appropriate sizing and forecasting, equipment, ordering, provisioning, maintenance, repair, testing, augment, and compensation procedures and arrangements, and on any other arrangements necessary to implement the Mid- Span Meet arrangement. Any Mid-Span Meet arrangement requested at a third-party premises is expressly conditioned on the Parties' having sufficient capacity at the requested location to meet such request, on unrestricted 24-hour access for both Parties to the requested location, on other appropriate protections as deemed necessary by either Party, and on an appropriate commitment that such access and other arrangements may not be...
Mid-Span Meets. 4.3.1 In addition to the foregoing methods of Interconnection, the Parties may agree, at either Party's request at any time, to establish (i) a Mid-Span Meet arrangement in accordance with the terms of this subsection 4.3 that utilizes either wireless or wireline transmission facilities, or a combination of both, or (ii) a SONET backbone with an electrical interface at the DS-3 level where and on the same terms BA offers such SONET services to other
Mid-Span Meets. In addition to the foregoing methods of Interconnection, the Parties agree, upon either Party’s written request, to engage in good faith negotiations concerning the feasibility of interconnecting via a Mid-Span Meet arrangement. Such request may be initiated by either Party no earlier than three (3) months after the initial Interconnection under this Agreement of the Parties’ networks in the LATA for which the Mid-Span Meet is requested.
Mid-Span Meets. 4.3.1 The Parties may agree to establish (i) a Mid-Span Meet arrangement in accordance with the terms of this subsection 4.3 that utilizes wireline transmission facilities. In a Mid-Span Meet, each Party extends its facilities to meet the other Party. The point where the facilities meet is the Mid-Span point. Each Party bears its own costs to establish and maintain a Mid-Span Meet arrangement, and/or shares any common costs associated with the arrangement. However, the Parties also agree that a technical arrangement for a Mid-Span Meet may involve one Party placing and extending its own (or leased) fiber facilities to the Wire Center of the other Party, with sufficient additional length on the fiber to permit the receiving Party to terminate the fiber without requiring splicing of the fiber facilities prior to the terminal equipment in the receiving Party’s Wire Center. In this situation, the Parties will negotiate reasonable compensation to be paid to the Party extending the facilities for the associated labor, materials, and conduit space used in extending its facilities beyond a negotiated Mid Span point.
4.3.2 The establishment of any Mid-Span Meet arrangement is expressly conditioned upon the Parties’ reaching prior agreement on appropriate sizing and forecasting, equipment, ordering, provisioning, maintenance, repair, testing, augment, and compensation procedures and arrangements, reasonable distance limitations, and on any other arrangements necessary to implement the Mid-Span Meet arrangement. Any Mid-Span Meet arrangement requested at a third-party premises is expressly conditioned on the Parties’ having sufficient capacity at the requested location to meet such request, on unrestricted 24-hour access for both Parties to the requested location, on other appropriate protections as deemed necessary by either Party, and on an appropriate commitment that such access and other arrangements may not be restricted for a reasonable period.
4.3.3 Mid-Span Meet arrangements shall be used only for the termination of Local Traffic and IntraLATA Toll Traffic, unless and until such time as the Parties have agreed to appropriate compensation arrangements relating to the exchange of other types of traffic over such Mid-Span Meet, and only where facilities are available.
4.3.4 A Mid-Span Meet arrangement may be implemented by establishing direct End Office interconnection using an electrical or optical cross-connect between the Parties’ respective collocation arran...