Best Practice Guide to ManagingInventories and Order Processes for Flexi Cease28 January 2014

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© British Telecommunications plc 2014

• It should be noted that the proposals for the products outlined in this slide-pack represent Openreach’s current view at the time of publication. These proposals may change through further development and feedback.

• The purpose of this slide-pack is to provide additional information to support Communications Provider (CP) development initiatives. It does not represent a finalised definition/specification of the products. Openreach has no liability with respect to developments undertaken based on the contents of this publication

• The contents of this pack cannot be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of Openreach

© British Telecommunications plc 2014

Document History

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Revision Author Date Notes

Issue 1.4 Openreach 28 January 2014 Updated following Draft publication to industry on 9 April 2014 and CP feedback

Contents

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Introduction What is Flexi Cease Information:-Terminology of LIJs their Locations/Warnings and R2400 “DUMMY”

Functionality Best Practice for MPF Best Practice for SMPF Best Practice for Inventory Management Current Order Journey Examples Useful References / Resources Acronym Guide

Introduction

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What is Flexi Cease

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What is Flexi Cease

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MPF Stopped Line (Showing Openreach Jumpers On MDF)

What is Flexi Cease

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SMPF+WLR Stopped Line (Showing Openreach Jumpers On MDF)

Information Terminology of LIJs and their locations

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Information LIJ Response Code And Warnings

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Response Code Response to CP text

1884The target circuit already has LIJ tie pairs that belong to you. If this order continues, then you will incur LIJ removal-Target charges to remove the LIJ ties.

1885The donor circuit already has LIJ tie pairs that belong to you. If this order continues, then you will incur LIJ removal-Donor charges to remove the LIJ ties.

1886Both target and donor circuits already have LIJ tie pairs that belong to you. If this order continues, then you will incur LIJ removal- Target and Donor charges to remove the LIJ ties.

Response code XML templates can be found within the XML specification documents on the Openreach Portal

Information R2400 “DUMMY” Functionality

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Best Practice Process for Avoiding LIJ Charges

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EMPCommunications Provider

Best Practice For MPF

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Openreach FRAMES

EMPCommunications Provider

Best Practice For SMPF To An Existing Service

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Openreach FRAMES

Best Practice Best Practice for Inventory Management

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Recommendation

Manage tie pair inventory by recording jumpers in use, spare, or left in by using KCI 3 messages from the orders associated with the jumpers.

Use Tie Pair Reconciliation Report (TPRR) to obtain Tie Pair details that you own. This is available via the Openreach Portal.

Tie Pair Checker Dialogue Services and eMLC are also at hand to obtain the tie pair status and also MLPA to look at stopped lines for potential re-use.

Check if you have any quarantine periods in place for reuse of your LIJs, consider any removal benefit.

Best Practice Best Practice for Inventory Management

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CP_ID MDF_SITE_ID TIE_CABLE_ID TIE_PAIR_NUM SERVICE_ID LIJ_STATUS TIE_PAIR_STATUS COMMENTS NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 1 N S NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 2 LBCLnnnnnnn N N NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 3 LBCLnnnnnnn N S NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 4 LECLnnnnnnn Y S SPARE LIJ

NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 5 LACLnnnnnnn N N DATA CONFLICT - CP TO CONFIRM STATUS

NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 6 LLCLnnnnnnn N N ORDER IN PROGRESS :New Provide: 1-11111111111

NNNNNNNNN CLBER LLULxxxxxx 7 LLCLnnnnnnn N F TIE PAIR FAULTY

Tie Pair Reconciliation Report is made up of the following headers: CP_ID: This is your Duns IDMPF_SITE_ID:  This is the exchange ID of the exchange the Tie Cable and Tie Pair terminate withinTIE_CABLE_ID: This is the Tie Cable ID that the Tie Pair terminates onTIE_PAIR_NUMBER: This is the Tie Pair number SERVICE _ID: This is your Service ID that is related to your active/live services e.g. there should be one record for an MPF service and two for an SMPF service.LIJ_STATUS: This shows if the Tie Pair is in a left in status and will be set to either Y/NTIE_PAIR_STATUS: This field provides the Tie Pair Status and can be set to either S=spare N=not spare F=faultyCOMMENTS: The comments provide basic information on the Tie Pair

Order Journey SMPF Sim Provide with CP Supplied Tie Pairs Example

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CP OR

ADD ORDER

Order “Matched” KCI 1.5 (515)

Order “Committed” KCI 2 (520)

Order “Completed” KCI 3 (530)

Order Pending

Order-”Acknowledged” KCI 1 (510)

Line Status=“Matched” to the expected exchange

Possible LIJ warnings (1884,1885,1886)

Order Journey SMPF Sim Provide with “Dummy” Tie Pairs Example

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CP OR

ADD ORDER

Order “Matched” KCI 1.5 (515)

Order “Committed” KCI 2 (520)

Order “Completed” KCI 3 (530)

Order Pending

Order-”Acknowledged” KCI 1 (510)

OrderStatusUpdate-Amend (540)

Amend OrderFor “Dummy” orders Openreach confirm Tie Pairs after KCI 1.6

Dummy exchange and tie pair details

Possible LIJ warnings (1884,1885,1886)

Order “Routing Completed” KCI 1.6 (517)

Possible LIJ warnings (1884,1885,1886)

NEW KCI 1.6, Line status=“Routing completed” Real exchange and tie pairs details

New KCI 1.6 (Routing Completed), KCI 1 and 1.5 contain MDFSiteid (albeit with a dummy value until KCI 1.6)

Order Journey MPF Standalone Provide with CP Supplied Example Ties

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CP OR

ADD ORDER

Order “Committed” KCI 2 (520)

Order “Completed” KCI 3 (530)

Order Pending

Order-”Acknowledged” KCI 1 (510) KCI1 to return the exchange details

Possible LIJ warnings (1884,1885,1886)

Order Journey MPF Standalone Provide with “Dummy” Tie Example Pairs

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CP OR

ADD ORDER

Order “Committed” KCI 2 (520)

Order “Completed” KCI 3 (530)

Order Pending

Order-”Acknowledged” KCI 1 (510)

OrderStatusUpdate-Amend (540)

Amend OrderFor “Dummy” orders Openreach confirm Tie Pairs after KCI 1.6

Dummy exchange and tie pair details

Possible LIJ warnings (1884,1885,1886)

Order “Routing Completed” KCI 1.6 (517)

Possible LIJ warnings (1884,1885,1886)

NEW KCI 1.6, Line status=“Routing completed” Real exchange and tie pairs details

New KCI 1.6 (Routing Completed), KCI 1 contain MDFSiteid (albeit with a dummy value until KCI 1.6)

Reference / Resource How Does This Help?

MPF/SMPF EMP Product DescriptionA product overview of (LLU) MPF and SMPF, including features and benefits.

Included references to the FRAMES jumpering activity and the Tie Pair Status Change Report

Tie Pair Checker Dialogue ServiceThis Dialogue Service provides you with the facility to query the tie pair status in real time. It also returns the LIJ (Left In Jumper) status if the tie pairs are in

a left in state.

Dialogue Services Product GuideAn overview of the Tie Pair Checker tool as well as other dialogue services

which are available to Openreach Customers.

eMLC User GuideThe eMLC dialogue service enables you to identify line characteristics and

other information that may help with the provisioning of your LLU/GEA order.

Tie Pair Reconciliation ReportProvides a bulk status of all tie cables owned by a particular CP. Available

for CPs to download and view via the Openreach Portal.

Flexi-Cease Business Process An overview of the Flexi-Cease Business Process.

EMP Response Code Sheet

The document is regularly updated and provides a comprehensive list of response codes and associated messages that are communicated between the Openreach applications and the CPs for agreed product line processes.

Message Codes: 1884, 1885 and 1886 are included within this list.

LLU PricingAn up to date price guide for LLU product suite including jumper removal at

MDF for LLU MPF/SMPF Products.

Appendix Useful References / Resources

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Appendix Acronym guide

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Acronym Meaning

B2B Business to Business

MDF Main Distribution Frame

CP Communication Provider

eMLC Enhanced Managed Line Characteristics

EMP Equivalence Management Platform

KCI Keep Customer Informed

LIJ Left In Jumper

LLU Local Loop Unbundling

MPF Metallic Path Facility

SMPF Shared Metallic Path Facility

URL Uniform Resource Locator

XML Extensible Mark-Up Language