I am considering transporting back-up traffic through a non-LEC for a possible DR design initiative using a couple DS3 transfer arrangements that terminate through a 3rd parties network full time, allowing that same 3rd party to redirect these same ports, during a disaster, to various hot sites within their domain. I was told by various sources that unless the vendor of my choosing is a LEC of some sort, they cannot back-haul production traffic as a private network, and that this is a FCC restriction regarding LEC licensing for traffic/long distance etc. These various sources do not have actual data to substantiate these claims, but have created enough questions in my mind to research this subject further. Does anyone have any good information regarding these FCC rules and regs? I am mainly concerned with the limitations set upon private networks to back-haul production traffic internationally. There is some legal grey area here, that I do not wish to tread on without some facts or at least some pointers in the right directions to research these claims appropriately. Very interesting stuff here, and I am not able to get any nibbles from google, hoping that someone here might have some 'blues clues' they would like to share. -Aaron