IMPLEMENTATION

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IMPLEMENTATION MIGRATION WORKING
GROUPPROVISIONING EXPERTS MEETING
Wednesday 1st March 2006
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  Virtual Interconnect Circuit product, System
  Alteration Notice process nor its associated
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New ACO - Segregated Route Option

• Objective of session is to
• Show current example of route to BT DLE
• Explain how VIC circuits will be shown on ACO
• Show result of Cardiff (Pathfinder) changes
• Summarise results of the exercise

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BT ACO v. ntl version of BT ACO

• ntl's version of BT ACO has
• Extra columns with exchange 'real names'
• Extra column with transmission identity in ntl
  terminology
• Transmission Verifier sheet for easy checking
  of Sneids
• IEC check system (BT switch against Point of
  Connection)

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Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE)
2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid
C 2 E1s on Sneid D
Note NTS connection not shown
Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE)
Cardiff (CF/REX/1)
Egress/IDA route (total 10 E1s)
Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT)
Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six
Sneids
Today
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Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE)
2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid
C 2 E1s on Sneid D
Note NTS connection not shown
Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE)
Cardiff (CF/REX/1)
Egress/IDA route (total 10 E1s)
Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT)
Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six
Sneids
Traffic removed from DLE route segregated
route(s) built
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Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE)
2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid
C 2 E1s on Sneid D
Note NTS connection not shown
Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE)
Cardiff (CF/REX/1)
Egress/IDA route (total 10 E1s)
Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT)
Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six
Sneids
New route jumpered on existing transmission
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Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE)
2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid
C 2 E1s on Sneid D
Note NTS connection not shown
Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE)
Cardiff (CF/REX/1)
Egress/IDA route (total 10 E1s)
Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT)
Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six
Sneids
Traffic re-instated old route data recovered
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Todays ACO connections to CF/UE
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ACO showing CF/UE virtual connections
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Amended ACO (part) for Cardiff
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SUMMARY

• New ACO format is manageable
• May be thousand or more additional rows...
• Open to errors - no easy checking mechanism
• Excel not user friendly - need Access to
  manipulate data
• Poor data integrity using Excel
• - no history log
• - no audit trail for changes