IMPLEMENTATION & MIGRATION WORKING GROUP PROVISIONING EXPERTS MEETING Wednesday 1st March 2006

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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

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) BT ACO v. ntl version of BT ACO

Cardiff (CF/REX/1) Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE) Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT) 2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid C 2 E1s on Sneid D Egress/IDA route (total = 10 E1s) Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six Sneids Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE) Today Note: NTS connection not shown

Cardiff (CF/REX/1) Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE) Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT) 2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid C 2 E1s on Sneid D Egress/IDA route (total = 10 E1s) Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six Sneids Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE) Traffic removed from DLE route & segregated route(s) built Note: NTS connection not shown

Cardiff (CF/REX/1) Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE) Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT) Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE) New route jumpered on existing transmission 2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid C 2 E1s on Sneid D Egress/IDA route (total = 10 E1s) Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six Sneids Note: NTS connection not shown

Cardiff (CF/REX/1) Cardiff DLE E (CF/UE) Cardiff Iolite NGS (CF/ILT) Migration Cardiff DLE Unit E (CF/UE) Traffic re-instated & old route data recovered 2 E1s on Sneid A 2 E1s on Sneid B 4 E1s on Sneid C 2 E1s on Sneid D Egress/IDA route (total = 10 E1s) Existing Egress, IDA, Ingress etc routes on six Sneids Note: NTS connection not shown

Today’s ACO: connections to CF/UE

ACO showing CF/UE virtual connections

Amended ACO (part) for Cardiff

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