LUMEN MPLS (IP VPN AND VPLS) VPN SERVICE SCHEDULE

Version: March 20, 2023

  • Customer Responsibilities.
    1. Charges. Customer will be billed non-recurring charges (“NRC”) and monthly recurring charges (“MRC”) for MPLS VPN Services as set forth in the Order or pricing attachment. NRC includes applicable installation charges for local-access circuit and each port. MRC includes local-access charges, port connection charges and bandwidth charges. Bandwidth may be identified on an Order or pricing attachment as Bandwidth, Commit, Committed Information Rate (or CIR), or Peak Information Rate (or PIR). Other charges, including but not limited to usage based charges, may apply as stated in the Order or pricing attachment. Where Customer orders MPLS VPN Services bundled with either Lumen Internet Services or Lumen Enterprise Voice SIP Based Services (either combination is referred to as a “Converged Service”) such charges will show on the invoice as Converged Services. For clarification, the Converged Service is treated as a single Service and if Customer wishes to unbundle or terminate a part of the Converged Service, early termination liability may apply and Customer will be required to execute new orders for the desired stand-alone Service.
    2. Charges and Commencement of Billingfor Dynamic Connections Service. Customer will be billed and will pay one-time and monthly charges for Dynamic Connections Service as set forth in the Order. Hourly charges will be rounded up to the next hour, billed in arrears, and appear on the invoice as a NRC. For Services added at a monthly rate, the first bill cycle will be billed as a NRC in arrears and subsequent bill cycles will be billed as MRC in advance with pro-ration occurring at both the beginning and end of the connection rounded up to the nearest full day. Lumen will bill Customer the applicable rate for Service based upon the bandwidth and length of time the Service connection is active. Billing for any Service will commence when the Service connection is activated. After a connection is activated, Customer will receive a notice confirming the connection and containing the date and time the connection was activated.
    3. General Customer Responsibilities. Customer is responsible for providing the network design specifications including pre-existing LAN/WAN IP addressing schemes, MAC addresses and circuit designs. Customer is solely responsible for all equipment and other facilities used in connection with the Service which are not provided by Lumen. All IP addresses, if any, assigned to Customer by Lumen will revert to Lumen upon termination of Service, and Customer will cease using such addresses as of the effective date of termination. For installation of the Smart Demarcation device (NID) at Customer’s Site, Customer will (i) provide access at each Site for installation, implementation and maintenance (“Work”) at scheduled times, (ii) make appropriate contact personnel available on-site for such Work, (iii) provide all necessary power distribution boxes, conduits, telco backboard space for equipment mounting, grounding, surge and lightning protection and associated hardware and power outlets within 4 feet (1 meter) of the location at which a NID is to be installed, (iv) provide all required extended demarcation inside wiring, including any necessary building alterations to meet wiring and any other site requirements, (v) ensure that the NID can be installed within 6 feet (2 meters) of the Customer provided equipment and the Customer provided or third party provided extension of the local access circuit demarcation, or otherwise provide additional cabling at the Customer’s expense, (vi) clearly marking each telecommunications extended local access circuit demarcation point to allow the installer to connect the correct circuit to the correct NID interface, and (vii) connection of the NID to the Customer Router or LAN.
    4. Resale Restriction. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement, Customer is prohibited from reselling any Service provided pursuant to this Service Schedule except as expressly provided by Lumen, provided however, if Customer requests to resell any Converged Services such permission from Lumen must be in the form of an amendment signed by authorized representatives of both parties.
    5. Business Contact Information. Customer must provide to Lumen the names of and contact information (“Business Contact Information”) for its employees (“Business Contacts”) who have purchasing or other responsibilities relevant to Lumen’s delivery of international Service under this Service Schedule. Customer consents to Lumen’s and its affiliates or subcontractors’ use and transfer to the United States of Business Contact Information for the purpose of: (a) fulfilling its obligations under this Service Schedule; and (b) providing information to Customer about Lumen’s products and services via these Business Contacts. Customer represents that the Business Contact Information is accurate and that each Business Contact has consented to Lumen’s processing of their Business Contact Information for the purposes set forth in this Service Schedule. The Business Contact Information provided by Customer has been collected, processed, and transferred in accordance with applicable laws, including, where applicable, any necessary notification to the relevant data protection authority in the territory in which Customer is established (“Authority”). Customer will notify Lumen promptly of staffing or other changes that affect Lumen’s use of Business Contact Information. Lumen will have in place technical and organizational measures which seek to promote a level of security appropriate to the risk represented by the processing and the nature of the Business Contact Information and that protects such information against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, and unauthorized disclosure or access. Lumen will use the information only for the express purposes set forth in this Service Schedule. Lumen will identify a contact authorized to respond to inquiries concerning processing of Business Contact Information and will reasonably cooperate in good faith with Customer and the Authority concerning all such inquiries without excessive delays.
    6. Additional Customer Responsibilities for Dynamic Connections Service.
      1. When the Hosted Port is located at the premises of, and/or is controlled by a Provider then Customer is solely responsible for obtaining from the Provider, delivering to Lumen, and maintaining any necessary letters of authorization or permissions to connect the Service to the Hosted Port and the Provider’s services. Customer consents and directs Lumen to disclose to the Provider certain information about the Service to the extent reasonably necessary to provide such Service, including, Customer’s name, type, and location of interconnection, technical information required to configure the interconnections, utilization rate of the Service, as well as information concerning outages, maintenance, and operational status of the Service. Lumen is not responsible for the technical interoperation of the Provider’s services with the Hosted Port. Lumen may terminate the Service(s) without liability if Lumen loses the ability to continue logical or physical connection to the Provider as directed by the Provider.
      2. Customer will separately contract with the Provider for its access to the Provider. Customer’s contractual relationship with the Provider is completely independent from Customer’s contractual relationship with Lumen. Lumen is not a representative or agent of Provider, nor is Lumen responsible for Provider’s performance of its obligations to Customer, or for Provider’s acts or omissions. Lumen is not responsible to maintain, bill, or pay for any service provided to Customer by the Provider. Similarly, Provider is not responsible to maintain or pay for the Dynamic Connections Service.
      3. Customer is responsible for all charges resulting from Customer’s addition of Service(s) until such time as (a) Customer disconnects the respective Service(s); or (b) Lumen disconnects respective Service(s) in response to notification from Customer's Provider that Customer's end point with the Provider associated with the Service is permanently inoperable and cannot be repaired. Customer agrees that Lumen has the right to disconnect a Service where the end point with the cloud Provider is in a permanently inoperable state as described in the preceding subsection (b), but Lumen is under no obligation to do so.
      4. Authorization. Customer represents and warrants that: (i) the information Customer provides in connection with Customer's registration for the Dynamic Connections Services is accurate and complete; and (ii) (a) Customer is duly authorized to do business in the country or countries where Customer operates , and (b) Customer's employees, officers, representatives, agents or others accessing the Services or building additional servers or adding additional Services via self-serve or fulfilling other actions made available on its behalf through the Dynamic Connections Services portal are duly authorized and have full legal capacity (and are therefore, where applicable or required by local law or regulation, granted special, ample and sufficient power of attorney) to do so and to legally bind Customer to these terms and all transactions conducted under Customer's account. Customer may only use the Services to store, retrieve, query, serve, and execute Customer Data that is owned, licensed, or lawfully obtained and processed by Customer.
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