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"Taxes" means foreign, federal, state, and local excise, gross receipts, sales, use, privilege, or other tax (other than net income) now or in the future imposed by any governmental entity (whether such Taxes are assessed by a governmental authority directly upon CenturyLink or the Customer) attributable or measured by the sale price or transaction amount, or surcharges, fees, and other similar charges that are required or permitted to be assessed on the Customer. These charges may include state and federal Carrier Universal Service Charges, as well as charges related to £E911, and Telephone Relay Service. Page 5of 17 © CenturyLink. All Rights Reserved. N198621 v1.030416 CENTURYLINK® LOYAL ADVANTAGE® AGREEMENT DOMESTIC CENTURYLINK 1Q® NETWORKING SERVICE EXHIBIT 1. General. Domestic CenturyLink IQ® Networking Service (“Service™) is provided by CenturyLink QCC under the terms of the Agreement, this Service Exhibit, and any signed quotes between CenturyLink QCC and Customer. 2. Service. 21 Description. Service is a data, IP, and a network management solution that is designed for connectivity between Customer's sites or public Internet connectivity. 2.2 Ports. CenturylLink offers Service in the following port (“Port”) types: (a) Internet Port. Intemnet Ports provide public Internet connectivity. (b) - Private Port. Private Ports provide WAN connectivity between Customer sites. Customer may aliocate Private Port traffic up to 10 different closed user groups. Customer may request more than 10 point-to-point closed user groups for an additional charge. Quality of service (“QoS") traffic prioritization can be used with Private Ports. Ethemnet Private Ports with real-time traffic that require QoS are subject to local access limitations. (c) Enhanced Port. Enhanced Ports provide the functionality of both an Internet Port and a Private Port in a consolidated solution. (d) CenturyLink 1Q® + Port. A CenturyLink IQ + Port is a bundled solution that includes the following: (i) the functionality of a Private Port, (i) Local Access, (i) Monitor and Notification for a CenturyLink provided or approved router, (iv) End-to-End Performance Reporting, and (v) optional CenturyLink provided router as Rental CPE and Priority Queuing. The Local Access and CenturyLink provided router for domestic Service are subject to the Local Access Service Exhibit and CenturyLink Rental CPE Service Exhibit (including the applicable Detailed Description), respectively. Customer may provide a router approved by CenturyLink. Domestic Service with a CenturyLink provided router includes 8x5 NBD maintenance using ProMET® Remote Standard Service or 24x7 on-site maintenance using ProMET® On-Site Premium Service at Customer qualified sites. CenturyLink may use repackaged Rental CPE or substitute the Rental CPE with other CPE. Customer is responsible for any trouble shooting and repair of equipment on Customer’s j side of the router. Domestically, a CenturyLink IQ + Port is only available in a Centurytink determined data center. i (e) CenturyLink IQ® + Cloud Port. A CenturyLink IQ + Cloud Port is a bundled solution that provides: (a) private connectivity between Customer’s Private Port sites and Customer resources in CenturyLink determined data centers and/or cloud service provider environments, and (b) End-to-End Performance Reporting. Customer can use all Private Port features defined in the Private Port section above. Access within data centers and cloud service provider environments may include shared or virtualized services where available. Customer understands that cloud-related services are contracted separately. 2.3 Network Management Service. CenturyLink Network Management Service (‘NMS”) is a feature available for all Ports except for a CenturyLink IQ + Cloud Port. Select Management or Comprehensive Management is available with domestic Ports. The feature provides performance reporting, change management, configuration management, fault monitoring, management and notification of CPE and network related issues. Customer may also request NMS management features for devices not associated with a CenturyLink IQ Networking Port in domestic locations with CenturyLink’s prior approval. The NMS management types are set forth in more detail below. (a) Monitor and Notification. Monitor and Notification can be included with CenturyLink |Q + Ports and is an optional NMS feature for the other Port types. CenturyLink will monitor the Customer devices 24x7x365 for up/down status using ICMP ping. CenturyLink will notify Customer if no response is received for a designated period. NMS will not provide any troubleshooting and - incident resolution for device or network faults. "Monitor & Notfification” is the only NMS option available for devices that do not support SNMP and/or are not certified for NMS. (b} Select Management. Select Management can be included with any eligible domestic Port. CenturyLink will monitor Customer devices 24x7x365 for up/down status as well as provide 24x7x365 remote performance monitoring, reporting, and ticketing via an NMS online portal for devices supported by CenturyLink, fault monitoring, management, and notification (detection, isolation, diagnosis, escalation and remote repair when possible), change management supported by CenturyLink (up to 12 changes per year), asset : management (device inventory), and configuration management (inventory of customer-physical and legical configuration). Customer ; must make change management requests via Control Center at hitps://controlcenter.centurylink.com. Select Management only supports basic routing functions. NMS does not include new CPE initial configuration, lab testing, lab modeling, or on-site work of CPE. The NMS supported device list and a standard change management list are availabie on request and are subject to change without notice. (c) Comprehensive Management. Comprehensive Management can be included on any eligible Port. Comprehensive Management Includes all of the Select Management features as well as total customer agency and change management (up to 24 configuration changes per year) of complex routing functions within routers, switches, and firewall modules. This includes configuration | and management of complex routing, switching, device NIC cards, firewall module configurations, and basic router internal firewall functions. CenturyLink acts as the Customer’s single point of contact in managing the resolution of all service, device, and transport faults covered by Comprehensive Management and will work with any third party hardware and/or transport providers the Customer has under contract until all network issues are successfully resolved. With Internet security protocol (“IPSec”), CenturyLink can configure full : Page 6 of 17 © CenturyLink. All Rights Reserved. ! N198621 v1.030416 . CENTURYLINK® LOYAL ADVANTAGE® AGREEMENT DOMESTIC CENTURYLINK IQ® NETWORKING SERVICE EXHIBIT mesh, partial mesh, or hub-and-spoke topologies with secure tunnels for remote communication between Customer locations. IPSec is only available on approved Cisco and Adtran devices. IPSec opportunities greater than 25 devices or with other manufacturer’s devices require CenturyLink approval before submitting an order. {d) CenturyLink Responsibilities. For NMS, CenturyLink will provide Customer with a nonexclusive service engineer team, which will maintain a Customer profile for the portion of the Customer’s network where the devices covered by NMS reside. CenturyLink will work with Customer to facilitate resolution of service affecting issues with Select Management or Comprehensive Management. (e) Customer Responsibilities. () Customer must provide all information and perform all actions reasonably requested by CenturyLink in order to facilitate installation of NMS. If Customer limits or restricts CenturyLink’s read/write access to a device, CenturyLink cannot support configuration backups. Customer is responsible for supporting CenturyLink in access, troubleshooting, and configuration requests made in accordance with normal troubleshooting and repair support activities. For Out-of-Band management related to fault isolation/resolution, Customer will provide and maintain a POTS line for each managed device. “Out-of-Band” means a connection between two devices that relies on a non-standard network connection, such as an analog dial modem, which must be a CenturyLink certified 56k external modem. Additionally, Customer will provide a dedicated modem for each managed device. It is not mandatory that Customer have a POTS line but Customer must understand that CenturyLink will not be able to troubleshoot issues if the device covered by NMS cannot be reached. Service related outages requiring access to the device for troubleshooting and repair purposes will impact the eligibility of any associated SLA credits. (i) For Comprehensive Management, Customer must execute the attached Letter of Agency (Attachment 1) to authorize CenturyLink to act as Customer’s agent solely for the purpose of accessing Customer’s transport services. (iii) Depending on transport type, Customer’s managed devices must comply with the following set of access requirements: (A) for NMS delivered via IP connectivity with an Internet Port or other public Internet service, devices must contain an appropriate version of OS capable of establishing IPsec VPNs; and (B) for NMS delivered with a Private Port, CenturyLink will configure a virtual circuit to access Customer’s device at no additional charge. CenturyLink will add the NMS network operations center to the Customer closed user group to manage the devices within Customer’s network. {iv) Customer must provide a routable valid IP address to establish the NMS connection. Customer’s primary technical interface person must be available during the remote installation process to facilitate installation of NMS. All Customer devices managed under NMS must be maintained under a contract from a CenturyLink approved onsite CPE maintenance provider. The response times for which Customer contracts with its CPE maintenance provider will affect CenturyLink’s timing for resolution of problems involving Customer provided devices. The performance of the CPE maintenance provider is Customer’s responsibility. 24 End-to-End Performance Reporting. End-to-End Performance Reporting is a feature included with Private Ports, the Private Port functionality of Enhanced Ports, CenturyLink IQ + Ports, and CenturyLink IQ + Cloud Ports, except for Ports with VPLS. Customer must include CenturyLink as a member of each closed user group. The feature includes a report based on data collected from Customer’s traffic within its closed user groups and measures availability, jitter, latency, and packet delivery between Customer’s edge routers, between CenturyLink’s routers, and between Customer's edge routers and CenturyLink’s routers. The data contained in the report is measured differently than the goals contained in the SLA applicable to the Service and is for informational purposes only. Customer is not entitled to SLA credits based on the data in the report. Customer may access the report in the Control Center portal. Some quote forms or other associated documents may use “End-to-End Performance Monitoring” to mean “End-to-End Performance Reporting”. 25 Multicast. Multicast is an optional feature for Private Ports and the Private Port functionality of Enhanced Ports. The feature enables IP multicast on the CenturyLink IP network. Customer must configure its edge devices with CenturyLink designated multicast protocol specifications and use the CenturyLink designated IP address range for Customer’s multicast applications. The standard feature allows up to ten sources of multicast traffic per Customer, but CenturyLink may permit a limited number of additional sources. 2.6 Secure IP Gateway. Secure |P Gateway (“SIG”) is an optional feature for

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