NRIC IV Network Reliability and Interoperability Council IV

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NRIC IVNetwork Reliability and Interoperability
Council IV

• Washington, DC
• July 14, 1999
• Rick Harrison
• Telcordia Technologies
• 732-699-6720
• rick6_at_telcordia.com

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NRIC IV Focus Group 3 Subcommittee 1 Team Members
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NRIC IVFocus Group 3

• Subcommittee 1 Work Plan/Scope
• Focus on Power, Essential Services, Facility, and
  Procedural Best Practices and outage reports
  (Todays report will only cover Power and
  Procedural)

• Identify new Best Practices from NRCII, NRICIII
  and ongoingNRSC Activities
• Update Best Practice List from last Best Practice
  reviewwith any new Best Practices found above
• Expand and revise Best Practice titles and text
  to broaden the scope to make them more applicable
  to new entrants
• Re-categorize Best Practices into more generic
  focus areas
• Survey industry on Best Practice Implementation,
  Effectiveness and relative cost to implement
• Review Outage reports for Best Practice
  implications

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• Subcommittee 1 Responses to Carrier Best
  Practices Survey
• GTE Yes SBC Yes
• Ameritech Yes Sprint Yes
• ATT Yes BellSouth Yes
• Bell Atlantic Yes 7 Companies No Response
• Responses cover 84 of total US access lines

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NRIC IVFocus Group 3

• Subcommittee 1 Responses to Supplier Best
  Practices Survey
• Lucent Yes
• MOTOROLA Yes
• Nortel Yes
• Tellabs Yes
• 21 Other Companies No

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NRIC IVFocus Group 3

• Subcommittee 1 Preliminary Observations/Findings
  
• Overall implementation of Best Practices by
  traditional service providers and suppliers
  remains high
• Power
• No new best practices have been identified
• All existing best practices have been rated as
  effective
• Review of power outage reports (past 2 Years)
  supports the need for following existing best
  practices
• Outage index (customer impact) reflects
  effectiveness of power best practices in
  mitigating outage impact

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NRIC IVFocus Group 3

• Subcommittee 1 Preliminary Observations/Findings
  
• (The Subcommittee has reviewed and evaluated the
  report of the NRSC Procedural Error Team and has
  included their recommendations, as appropriate,
  for new best practices)
• Procedural
• The volume of procedures being performed in the
  networks is increasing (increased opportunity for
  errors)
• Increasing complexity and capacity of operating
  environment
• Increased number of interconnecting networks
• Expanded capabilities of new technology
• Code openings due to increased utilization of
  numbering resources
• Implementation of Number Portability
• Y2K related software changes

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NRIC IVFocus Group 3

• Subcommittee 1 Preliminary Observations/Findings
  Continued
• (The Subcommittee has reviewed and evaluated the
  report of the NRSC Procedural Error Team and has
  included their recommendations, as appropriate,
  for new best practices)
• Procedural
• High Implementation
• However, Implementation may mean have a policy
• Survey responses indicate that Procedural Best
  Practices are highly effective however, in
  practice, the trend in the frequency of
  procedural outage reports indicate that they are
  not being followed
• Procedural Best Practices are directed at both
  mitigating and preventing outages

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NRIC IVFocus Group 3

• Next Steps
• July - A Best Practice by Best Practice review
  and analysis of the survey responses
• -Review NRSC Facilities Solution Team Report
  for Best Practice implications
• August -Complete survey analysis and gain
  consensus
• around final recommendations
• September -Draft 1 of final report
• October -Complete final report
• -NRIC readout of recommendations