MSAN Industry Experts Group

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Product Design

• MSAN Industry Experts Group
• 4 November 2005
• Martin Whewell openreach

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The PSTN/ISDN Line and its services....
Retail
Wholesale
Network
Wholesale Line Rental
Shared Metallic Path Facility
Access
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The PSTN/ISDN Line and its services....
Retail
Wholesale
Network
Wholesale Line Rental
Shared Metallic Path Facility
Access
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Service Wrap

• Provision
• Order for line through openreach B2B gateway
• Real-time transactional ebXML
• Line card and network configuration supplied to
  openreach by BT Wholesale
• Multi-product orders and migrations as per WLR
• Repair
• openreach B2B gateway
• KCI Touch-points
• Billing
• Consistent Line rental charges
• Composite openreach bill
• Performance KPIs as per WLR

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MSAN Voice AccessInfrastructure Operator
BT Access network And Point of Interconnect
CP Application Providing service features
Media handled routed on CP network
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MSAN Voice AccessInfrastructure-less Operator
BT Access network And Point of Interconnect
CP Application Providing service features
Media handled routed on BT network
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MSAN Voice Access - Open questions

• What are the advantages of MSAN Voice Access over
  WLR3 ?
• Product variations Infrastructure /
  Infrastructure-less operators ?
• Scope PSTN or ISDN too ?
• Degree of feature support needed via AGCF
  (Remembering that CP will need to build features
  into Call Control application) ?
• Complex flows 3-way call etc bridged on BT
  network on in CPs ?
• Announcements delivered by CPs network or by
  BT ?