South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 20 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Article 20:10 - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 20:10:28 - Telecommunications separations procedures › Section 20:10:28:34 - Local switching equipment - Category 3 - Accounts 2210, 2211, 2212, and 2215 - Included equipment

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
Local switching equipment, category 3, is included in
				  accounts 2210, 2211, 2212, and 2215. It comprises all central office switching
				  equipment not assigned to categories 1, 2, and 4. Equipment used for the
				  identification, recording, and timing of customer-dialed charge traffic or
				  switched private line traffic or switchboards used solely for recording of
				  calling telephone numbers in connection with customer-dialed charge traffic or
				  switched private line traffic, or both, is included in this local switching
				  category. Equipment provided and used primarily for operator-dialed toll or
				  customer-dialed charge traffic, except such equipment included in category 2
				  tandem switching equipment, is also included in this local switching category.
				  Special services switching equipment which primarily performs the switching
				  function for special services is also included in this local switching
				  category.
Local office, as used in this section, comprises one or more
				  local switching entities of the same equipment type in an individual location.
				  A local switching entity comprises that local central office equipment of the
				  same type which has a common intermediate distributing frame, marker group, or
				  other separately identifiable switching unit serving one or more
				  prefixes.
A host/remote local switching complex is composed of an
				  electronic analog or digital host office and all of its remote locations. A
				  host/remote local switching complex is treated as one local
				  office.
General Authority:
SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5,
					 49-31-18.
Law Implemented:
SDCL 49-31-18.
Note:
Examples of local switching equipment
					 include basic switching train, toll connecting trunk equipment, interlocal
					 trunks, tandem trunks, terminating senders used for toll completion, toll
					 completing train, call reverting equipment, weather and time of day service
					 equipment, and switching equipment at electronic analog or digital remote line
					 locations. Examples of equipment used for the identification, recording and
					 timing of customer-dialed charge traffic or switched private line traffic
					 include transmitters, recorders, call identify indexers, perforators,
					 ticketers, detectors, and mastertimers. Examples of equipment provided and used
					 primarily for operator-dialed toll or customer-dialed charge traffic include
					 directors, translators, sender registers, out trunk selectors, and facilities
					 for toll intercepting and digit absorption. Special services switching
					 equipment includes switching equipment and switchboards which primarily perform
					 the switching function for special
					 services.
Categories, §
											20:10:28:20.
Central office-switching,
					 47 C.F.R. §
												32.2210 (1991).
Analog electronic switching,
					 47 C.F.R. §
												32.2211 (1991)
Digital electronic switching,
					 47 C.F.R. §
												32.2212 (1991).
Electro-mechanical switching, 47 C.F.R. § 32.2215
					 (1991).
Local switching equipment - category 3,
					 47 C.F.R. §
												36.125(a)
					 (1991).