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Collocation Project Management
The Qwest CLEC Forum May 13-14, 2002
The information provided on every slide in the
following presentation is for training purposes
only. The information provided does not create or
modify any legal obligations, promises or
expectations between Qwest and CLEC customer. The
parties relationship is governed by existing
legal obligations and contracts.
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Collocation Wholesale Project Management
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Collocation Wholesale Project Management
Maximize service to our CLEC customers and
provide effective project management for their
collocation requirements.
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Collocation Wholesale Project Management

• Collocation Time Line
• CLEC Issues Application
• Order Validation
• Feasibility
• Quote Issuance
• Quote Acceptance
• Construction Completion
• Walk-through with SICM
• Acceptance by CLEC

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Collocation Wholesale Project Management
Single Point of Contact for CLEC for all issues,
questions, concerns regarding collocation sites
from application through construction completion.
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Collocation Wholesale Project Management

• Application Types
• New
• Augments
• Changes
• Transfer of Responsibility
• Decommissions

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Collocation Wholesale Project Management

• Products
• Caged
• Cageless
• Virtual
• ICDF (Interconnect Distribution Frame)
• Remote
• FCP (Field Connection Point)
• Facility Connected
• Power Reduction
• Adjacent
• Splitter

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Collocation Wholesale Project Management
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WholesaleProduct Marketing
The Qwest CLEC Forum May 13-14, 2002
The information provided on every slide in the
following presentation is for training purposes
only. The information provided does not create or
modify any legal obligations, promises or
expectations between Qwest and CLEC customer. The
parties relationship is governed by existing
legal obligations and contracts.
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Agenda

• Wholesale Product Management Collocation Team
• Recent Product Deployments
• Cost Docket Status and Impacts
• Preview of New Products In Development
• Questions

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Wholesale Product ManagementCollocation Team
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Recent Product Deployments

• Collocation Transfer of Responsibility (ToR)
• Facility Connected Collocation (FC)
• DC Power Reduction

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Transfer of Responsibility

• Product Description
• Transfer of a Collocation site to an assuming
  CLEC from a vacating CLEC.
• Offered for Caged Physical, Cageless Physical,
  Virtual, and ICDF Collocation. All other types
  of Collocation to be transferred will be handled
  on an Individual Case Basis.
• Two types of Collocation Transfer of
  Responsibility
• Transfer without working circuits
• Transfer with working circuits
• Transfer with working circuits is offered if
  administration changes are required and does not
  involve translations activity.

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Transfer of Responsibility

• Ordering
• Prior to submitting a Collocation Transfer of
  Responsibility request
• Assuming CLEC is required to have an
  Interconnection Agreement with Qwest. Also will
  need to amend any previously-existing ICA if it
  does not include services to be transferred.
• Vacating and Assuming CLEC must sign the
  Collocation Transfer of Responsibility amendment.
• Process begins by the assuming CLEC submitting
  the Collocation Transfer of Responsibility
  Application form and submitting to colo_at_qwest.com
  and rfsmet_at_qwest.com.

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Transfer of Responsibility

• Ordering continued
• In addition to the application form the following
  information will need to be included
• Collocation Transfer of Responsibility
  Spreadsheet, if there are working circuits -
  providing detail on each working circuit to be
  transferred.
• Qwest Transfer Authorization Agreement, signed by
  the vacating and assuming CLECs.
• Letter of Authorization, if the Collocation site
  has a CLEC-to-CLEC (Direct) arrangement, signed
  by the assuming CLEC and the CLEC partner.
• Email verification from the vacating CLEC
  representing that all of its end users have been
  notified of the transfer, if there are working
  circuits.

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Transfer of Responsibility

• Ordering continued
• Qwest will review the required documentation,
  check the financial status and confirm that no
  one is waiting in the queue for Collocation space
  in the requested Central Office.
• Qwest will initiate a quote to the assuming CLEC,
  who is required to pay 100 as acceptance of the
  quote.
• If the transfer is with working circuits, the
  CLEC must submit LSRs. Circuits submitted via an
  ASR will be processed based on the information
  provided on the Collocation Transfer of
  Responsibility Spreadsheet.
• At the completion of the transfer, the vacating
  CLEC, assuming CLEC and Qwest will sign the Qwest
  Services Transfer Agreement.

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Transfer of Responsibility

• Rate Elements
• Vacating CLEC will not incur charges for the
  transfer of the Collocation site.
• The quote for the assuming CLEC will reflect the
  following
• Nonrecurring charges associated with the transfer
  of the Collocation site
• Assessment Fee
• Network Systems Administrative Fee
• Nonrecurring charge(s) for processing
  Interconnection circuits, if applicable.

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Transfer of Responsibility

• Collocation Product Catalog (PCAT)
• www.qwest.com/wholesale/pcat/collocation.html
• Contract Amendment
• www.qwest.com/wholesale/clecs/negotiations.html
• Jane Lacy - Product Manager
• jmlacy_at_qwest.com

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Facility Connected Collocation

• Product Description
• Allows access to Unbundled Network Elements
  (UNEs) without collocating physical equipment in
  a Qwest Wire Center
• FC Collocation takes place on a Termination Block
  or Termination Panel engineered by Qwest
• Allows termination of a copper or fiber cable at
  a demarcation point
• Available for cross connection to DS0 and DS1
  level UNE services. DS3 levels of service, or DS1
  utilizing fiber are available via the Bona Fide
  Request (BFR) Process

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Facility Connected Collocation

• Rate Elements Non-Recurring
• Quote Preparation Fee (QPF)
• Engineering Labor
• Copper/Fiber Entrance Facility
• Termination Block
• Termination Panel
• DS1 Voltage Isolation

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Facility Connected Collocation

• Rate Elements Recurring
• Copper/Fiber Entrance Facility
• Termination Block
• Termination Panel
• DS1 Voltage Isolation

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Facility Connected Collocation

• Ordering and Intervals
• Requested via the Facility Connected Application
  Form as described in the Collocation PCAT
• Qwest will provide space feasibility within 10
  Calendar days of receiving a complete application
  
• Qwest will provision FC Collocation within 90
  calendar days of receipt of application given
  timely CLEC acceptance of quote
• CLEC must have established entrance facility at
  the POI within 53 calendar days upon Qwests
  receipt of complete FC Collocation Application

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Facility Connected Collocation

• Collocation Product Catalog
• www.qwest.com/wholesale/pcat/facconcollo.html
• Contract Amendment
• www.qwest.com/wholesale/clecs/negotiations.html
• Benjamin Campbell - Product Manager
• bocampb_at_qwest.com

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DC Power Reduction

• Product Description
• Allows CLECs to reduce primary or secondary DC
  power feeds to their collocation site
• Primary feed may be reduced to a minimum of 20
  amps
• Secondary feed may be reduced to 0 amps while
  holding cabling and fuse position for future use
  (pending availability)
• Provides an option to hold power cabling and fuse
  or breaker position on a power board or Battery
  Distribution Fuse Bay (BDFB) for future power
  augment requests
• Where shortage of fuse position is imminent, CLEC
  has option to energize secondary feed to minimum
  20 amps, or relinquish held fuse position to Qwest

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DC Power Reduction

• Ordering Procedure
• CLEC must sign the DC Power Reduction Amendment
• CLEC completes power section of the Collocation
  Application and submits to Qwest as described in
  the Collocation PCAT
• Qwest Collocation Project Management Center
  (CPMC) will notify CLEC of any Application
  deficiencies within 10 calendar days of receipt
• Walk through of collocation site is performed to
  determine work required to perform power reduction

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DC Power Reduction

• Billing
• Billing to CLEC for initial power will be reduced
  upon receipt of payment for the charges quoted
  for the DC Power Reduction
• Reduced billing will be made effective back to
  the date of acceptance of the Power Reduction
  Application
• Recurring billing for the Power Maintenance
  Charge will terminate upon power restoration or
  fuse position return (for secondary feed)

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DC Power Reduction

• Rate Elements
• Quote Preparation Fee (NRC)
• Power Reduction Charge (NRC)
• Power Maintenance Charge (RC)
• Power Restoration Charge (NRC)

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DC Power Reduction

• Collocation Product Catalog (PCAT)
• www.qwest.com/wholesale/pcat/collocation.html
• Contract Amendment
• www.qwest.com/wholesale/clecs/negotiations.html
• Matthew Rossi - Product Manager
• mrossi_at_qwest.com

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Cost Docket Status and Impacts

• Cost Structure for Collocation
• Based on TELRIC principles
• No economic return under TELRIC

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Cost Docket Status and Impacts

• Recurring Studies

• Nonrecurring Studies

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Cost Docket Status and Impacts

• Status of Commission Collocation cost orders
• Existing orders that have been received
• September 1997 OR
• January 1998 AZ
• December 1998 IA, NM
• June 1999 UT
• July 1999 CO
• June 2000 MN
• December 2000 WA

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Cost Docket Status and Impacts

• Current activity timeframes
• October 2001
• WA , MT
• March 2002
• IA
• April 2002
• UT, CO, NE

• Actual Estimated ordered dates
• May 2002
• AZ
• June 2002
• NM, OR
• September 2002
• ID, MN, WY
• December 2002
• ND, SD

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New Products in Development

• Collocation Available Inventory
• Competitive Fiber Providers
• ICDF Joint Testing Process (ICDF-JTP)

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Collocation Available Inventory

• What is Available Inventory?
• Existing collocation sites and elements that have
  been returned to Qwest due to legal proceedings,
  abandonment, cancellation or decommission
• How will this product benefit CLECs?
• Enables CLECs to view available discounted
  collocation sites and elements
• Allows CLECs to purchase reused collocation site
  inventory at a reduced cost
• Allows reimbursable and reusable elements to be
  refunded to the vacating CLEC (for up to 3
  years)

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Collocation Available Inventory

• How do CLECs see what is Available?
• Qwest will implement a Collocation Classifieds
  web site in which all returned space and elements
  will be listed for view
• How do I learn more about this product?
• A Presentation will be made to the CLEC community
  at the 5/15/02 Product and Process CMP Monthly
  Meeting. For more information on CMP please
  visit www.qwest.com/wholesale/cmp/index.html
• Matthew Rossi - Product Manager -
  mrossi_at_qwest.com

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Competitive Fiber Provider

• What is Fiber Provider Point of Entry?
• Provides a mechanism for CFPs to terminate fiber
  from the Collocation Point of Entry (C-POI) to a
  Fiber Distribution Panel (FDP) in the central
  office without collocation of equipment.
• How do I learn more about this product?
• This product is currently being developed as a
  level 3 Qwest initiated CMP Change Request. For
  more information on CMP please visit
  www.qwest.com/wholesale/cmp/index.html
• Benjamin Campbell - Product Manager
  bocampb_at_qwest.com

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ICDF Joint Testing Process

• What is ICDF Joint Testing?
• Will allow a CLEC and Qwest to joint test DSO,
  DS1, DS3 and Line Sharing terminations for
  continuity at the Interconnection Collocation
  Distribution Frame (ICDF)
• What are the Terms and Conditions?
• CLEC must submit a Joint Test Process Application
• CLEC can submit request for Joint Testing with
  their Collocation Application for up to 60 days
  past scheduled collocation RFS.
• Pricing is based on a time and materials cost
  recovery basis

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ICDF Joint Testing Process

• How do I learn more about this product?
• This product is currently being developed as a
  level 3 Qwest initiated CMP Change Request. For
  more information on CMP please visit
  www.qwest.com/wholesale/cmp/index.html
• Benjamin Campbell - Product Manager
  bocampb_at_qwest.com

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Questions?
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