All,
Note that these notes containing info about needing to examine
some of the ready dates for other switches to be used for the
Inter-Company test.
Rosemary, can you answer the questions on the Downers Grove,
bellwood, and Lombard switchs?????
Barb C., could we get another NPA-NXX for one of these offices
if we decide we can use it??
Walt
Test Committee Conference call - 02/27/97
Attendees:
Barb Bennett, PacBell
Dave Leduc, PacBell
Bob Bartenstein, AIT
Bill Belshaw, MCI
Andy Chalk, Sprint
Kent Roberts, AIT
Larry Lovett, Sprint
Wayne Heinmiller, AIT
Nancy DeRoo, AIT
Barry Bishop, AIT
Dick Dowd, MCI
Mitch Fuchs, AT&T
Ed Elkin, AT&T
John Good, AIT
Andy Chalk, Sprint
OC Jackson, AT&T
Brent Struthers, ICC
Conference Call started at 09:00 CST:
1) Network Topology for testing:
What became obvious at the last meeting was the fact that the
NPA-NXXs put forth by the various Service Providers (SPs)
offered very little overlap in the same Rate District (RD).
This would mean much work for each SP to open Rate Districts
in switches that do not currently serve the RD that the test
port number resides in. The main point of this call is to see
if another RD or set of RDs would allow a better porting test
with only minimal opening of RDs in switches.
Mitch Fuchs and Ed Elkin, AT&T offered up the following RDs
as points of discussion:
Rate District Common Name Carriers involved
-------------- -------------- ------------------------
DWGVILDG Downers Grove AT&T, TCG, Worldcom, AIT, MCI
BLWDILBW Bellwood AT&T, TCG, Worldcom, AIT, MCI
LBRDILLM Lombard AT&T, TCG, Worldcom, AIT, MCI
SMMTILSM Summit AT&T, TCG, Worldcom, AIT, MCI
OKPKILOP Oak Park AT&T, MCI, AIT, TCG
GENVILGN Geneva AT&T, AIT, Worldcom
WHETILWH Wheaten AT&T, AIT, MCI
LGRCILLG LaGrange AT&T, AIT, MCI
HLSDILHD Hillside AT&T, TCG, AIT
Des Plains Sprint, Worldcom
Park Ridge Sprint, Worldcom, MCI
It was decided to look into Downers Grove, Bellwood and Lombard
to see if one of them would be ready in time for all of the
carriers to be able to test. Also, Sprint, Worldcom and MCI
would look into the Des Plains and Park Ridge RDs to see what
they could do in those areas. Action Items from the discussion:
a) Walt Subora and Bob Bartenstein, AIT will see if the AIT
offices in the first three areas can be made ready for a
07/24/97 start date. Will report back at 03/11/97 meeting.
b) The other SPs will look to see what NXXs could be made
available and when for these three RDs. Report back at
03/11/97 meeting.
c) The Des Plains and Park Ridge RDs also need to have NXXs,
etc. defined prior to the 03/11/97 meeting.
d) Walt, AIT, will contact Dick Anderson, Worldcom, and Arthur
Brett, TCG, to get their concurrence in looking in these areas
for the porting tests.
e) As the three RDs all are off of the LaGrange 4E Tandem,
Walt, AIT, will check to see if it can be made LNP ready for
the 07/24/97 start date.
f) The Des Plains and Park Ridge RDs are off of the North Brook
4E. Walt will also see about it for the test time frame.
2) Dick Dowd, MCI, on test interval planning:
a) Still needs single point of contact (SPC) information
from each SP.
b) He is putting together a test execution handbook for
the SPCs.
- Will include all of the operations flows as approved
- All SPCs and their information
- Will have all the info on what is to be done
- will be ready with draft for the 03/11/97 meeting
c) Also, still needs the NPA-NXX and DNs for the test as
well as the switch point codes, etc.
3) The ICC edits of the FCC synopsis and report:
a) Brent stated that the official name of the test period
is: "Illinois FCC Field Test"
b) Walt had many failures trying to send it to the people
on the committee and will retry. Brent said that discussion
could wait until the 03/11/97 meeting to finalize.
4) Issues:
a) Barry asked that the team have a fall back position for
opening the NPA-NXXs for portability if the LERG process and
software were not available for the 05/15/97 opening (45 day
window for GTTs, etc.). Dick, MCI, stated that we would put
that in place and then test the opening flow during the test
timeframe when available.
b) Dick Dowd, MCI, also brought up the question he and Bettie
Shelby, Worldcom, had been working: Do we allow an SP to be part
of the test if they are not ready on 07/24. Worldcom will not
be ready until 08/15/97. This needs further discussion at the
03/11/97 meeting.
. What will be the cut-off date to be part of test?
. After finish testing with NPAC test bed, what is date to
be able to come on line live?
. What will be procedure to bring a new SP on board the NPAC
and all previous ported numbers when ready for live service.
c) Barry wanted to ensure NPAC and test team to understand
that the Detroit MSA will also be testing with the NPAC from
08/15/97 to 10/01/97. What will be the impact and how will
this be managed?
d) Need to start the prioritization of the test cases for
the Chicago MSA and assigning them to sets of SPs to execute.
Might not be enough time in March for this, so will look into
whether we should expand the April through July meetings to
two days or have two meetings?
e) Nancy DeRoo asked if a new SP in the Chicago MSA would have
to become LTNP capable to compete? The answer from Brent was
that there are currently no state requirements for this and a
new SP could come in and start up with the Interim Number
Portability solution and never convert to LRN.
5) The 03/11/97 proposed agenda:
Meeting will be at:
Ameritech Training Center, Merchandise Mart,
350 N. Orleans, Room 493,
Chicago, IL
Agenda proposal (no particular order yet):
1) Execution handbook
2) Test Network Topography
3) Info for all Single Point of Contacts
4) Telco/Vendor conference 09/01?
5) Action Items
6) Ability of Worldcom to participate if not available until
08/15/97.
7) Need the 3 to 5 digit Alpha-Numeric code for each SP to
be input to the 911 databases.
8) Start the prioritization of test cases, etc.