NOC Descricao Atividades
NOC Descricao Atividades
NOC Descricao Atividades
(OCP)
January 4, 2019
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All rights reserved. This document or any part thereof may not be copied, reprinted or reproduced in
any material form without the prior written consent of an officer of West Telecom Services
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 6
1.1 Purpose 6
1.2. About This Document 6
1.3. Audience 6
3. Customer Support 8
4. Test Assistance 9
4.1. Testing 9
6. Trouble Reporting 11
6.1. General 11
6.2. Customer Reporting via call 12
6.3. Customer Reporting via email 13
6.4. Customer Fault Management Portal 14
8. Notifications 18
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.1.1 The purpose of this document is to define the working relationship, communications
channels, and support processes between West Telecom Services, LLC (“Telecom
Services”) and Customer with respect to the services referenced in this document.
1.1.2 Throughout this document Telecom Services and Customer may be referred to
collectively as the “Parties.”
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1.2 About This Document
1.2.1 This OCP is to be used as the basis for communicating between the Parties’ network
operations centers for all service-affecting network events.
1.2.2 This OCP is a living document and shall be mutually reviewed in an agreed upon
timeframe between the Parties to ensure all sections remain valid and effective. The
Customer and Telecom Services NOC are responsible to organize such reviews and
coordinate required systems upgrades, methods and procedures, technology
changes, and obtaining approval from the respective impacted organizations.
1.2.3 The OCP will detail the roles and responsibilities of the Parties’ network operations
centers (NOCs) in support of their respective networks and the services provided by
Telecom Services. The plan will include the following:
1.2.4 Proposed changes will be executed upon mutual agreement by process owners and
must be approved by executive sponsors, following standard change management
process and procedure.
1.3 Audience
1.3.1 This OCP is written for the Telecom Services and Customer Network Operations
Centers and associated personnel.
2.1.1 Telecom Services will support Customer through its Network Operations Center
(NOC).
2.2.1 The Telecom Services NOC serves as the single point of contact (SPOC) for the
Customer NOC for all network outages and service-affecting events and all contact
for these situations between Telecom Services and Customer must be channeled
through the Telecom Services NOC. Please note: all moves, adds, and changes to
your service must go through your Telecom Services Sales Director.
2.3.1 Telecom Services expects Customer NOC personnel to communicate with the
Telecom Services NOC via telephone and/or email.
3. Customer Support
3.1.1 Telecom Services prefers a single point-of-contact (SPOC) for the Customer,
preferably the Customer’s Network Operation Center, for designated Telecom
Services personnel to report service-impacting issues. Telecom Services should be
able to reach the specified SPOC via telephone or email twenty-four hours a day,
seven days a week, inclusive of holidays.
3.1.2 Customer will interface with Telecom Services through its Network Operations
Control center (NOC) which can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
3.2.1 Customer’s NOC will serve as the central point of contact for Telecom Services NOC
personnel.
4. Test Assistance
4.1.1 End-to-end testing of the services between Customer locations, including any off net
locations, may be required after acceptance of the services.
4.1.2 The Parties are expected to participate in the end-to-end testing of this service being
provided to ensure it is functioning correctly.
4.1.3 Customer must have the circuit tracking number (CTN) or, trunk work order number
(TWO) available at the time of testing.
4.1.4 Please note: all moves, adds, and changes to your service must go through your
Telecom Services Sales Director.
Support
Telecom Services Facility Test and Turn – Up Engineers
Level
Primary Contact – (Monday through Friday 08:00 – 17:00 central time)
4.2.10 SIP signaling gateways: Typically there will be at least two SIP gateways active within
the Telephone network under normal circumstances (subject change at any time).
Each will be reachable via a distinct IP address. Customer will provide call volume to
accurately determine number of SIP gateways required.
4.2.11 Please note: all moves, adds, and changes to your service must go through your
Telecom Services Sales Director.
Support
Telecom Services IP Test and Turn – Up Engineers
Level
Primary Contact – (Monday through Friday 08:00 – 17:00 central time)
Event Severity
Critical function Important Non-critical Maintenance
Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3 Priority 4
Severity Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 SD Request
Requests for
Site/services impaired,
research or
Site/services impaired for but end users not
Site/services down for information. Goes
all end users, OR down for impacted due to
all customers. into jeopardy five
some end users. alternate routes.
days after creation
Jeopardy in three days.
or event.
6. Trouble Reporting
6.1 General
6.1.1 Telecom Services and Customer are independently responsible for problem isolation,
triage and troubleshooting within their respective network infrastructures.
6.1.2 Telecom Services and Customer agree to work cooperatively with any and all other
Parties with operational or technical issues that warrant such action.
6.1.3 The Customer NOC(s) will be expected to contact the Telecom Services NOC to report
any Customer network outages or service-affecting events, or request assistance with
troubleshooting a Customer circuit or service.
6.1.4 Unless otherwise provided herein, all communications between the Customer NOC and
the Telecom Services NOC will be conducted via telephone, email and/or Portal (see
Section 6.2).
6.1.5 The Customer will be required to provide all appropriate information when reporting
an issue to Telecom Services NOC representative, via phone, email and/or Portal; the
absence of needed information will add unnecessary delay in opening the ticket and
providing resolution. (Refer to Appendix A-4).
Please provide answers for the NOC Representative for the Questions outlined in Appendix – A-
4.
The Customer will be expected to provide the following information when reporting an issue to
Telecom Services; following these steps will ensure the fastest resolution to service issues.
2. The NOC Representative requests the details of the situation, including as example:
· Trunk Group/Session affected
· Symptom (dead air, unable to complete call, SIP message, etc.)
· IP address sending to (which H3 Gateway) and IP address sending from
· Calling Party Number and Called Party Number
· Date and Time and Time Zone of call
· Market/s affected
· Call back number
3. The NOC Representative determines whether a ticket already exists for the specific
situation, or if a new ticket should be opened for tracking and reporting purposes. In either
case the ticket number is provided for future reference.
4. The NOC Representative evaluates the situation and directs the ticket to repair operations
for resolution.
5. If you feel that the resolution for Priority 1 and Priority 2 tickets is not to your satisfaction,
please escalate the problem, using the Contact Information and Escalation Numbers that
follow.
The Customer will be expected to provide the following information when reporting an issue to
Telecom Services; following these steps will ensure the fastest resolution to service issues.
· Please provide answers for the following Questions, as an example, for the NOC
Representative:
1. What number is being dialed?
2. What is the originating number?
3. Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
4. What IP addresses or Origination& Destination Point Codes (OPC/DPC) are
you sending from and to?
5. What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the
end of the message)
6. What are the date, time, and time zone of the call failure?
2. The NOC Representative determines whether a ticket already exists for the specific
situation, or if a new ticket should be opened for tracking and reporting purposes. In either
case the ticket number is provided for future reference.
3. The NOC Representative evaluates the situation and directs the ticket to repair operations
for resolution.
4. If you feel that the reported resolution for Priority 1 and Priority 2 tickets is not to your
satisfaction, please escalate the problem, using the Contact Information and Escalation
Numbers that follow.
As part of West Telecom Services commitment to improve the Customer experience, we have
launched the Customer Fault Management (FM) NOC Portal. Utilizing the Customer FM NOC
Portal will allow our Customers the ability to create, view, and annotate their trouble tickets in
real time.
Telecom Services’s Customers will benefit from using the FM NOC Portal by:
· Having instant insight into the status of open/closed trouble tickets.
· Ability to open a ticket directly through the FM NOC Portal
· Faster response times in resolving incident issues.
The Customer will be expected to provide the following information when reporting an issue to
Telecom Services; following these steps will ensure the fastest resolution to service issues.
· Please provide answers for the following Questions, as an example, to generate a ticket:
1. What number is being dialed?
2. What is the originating number?
3. Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
4. What IP addresses or Origination& Destination Point Codes (OPC/DPC) are
you sending from and to?
5. What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the
end of the message)
6. What are the date, time, and time zone of the call failure?
2. The NOC Representative determines whether a ticket already exists for the specific
situation, or if a new ticket should be opened for tracking and reporting purposes. In either
case the ticket number is provided for future reference.
3. The NOC Representative evaluates the situation and directs the ticket to repair operations
for resolution.
4. If you feel that the reported resolution for Priority 3 and Priority 4 tickets is not to your
satisfaction, please escalate the problem, using the Contact Information and Escalation
Numbers that follow in Appendix A-1 – Telecom Services Contacts.
Please note: For a demo and login credentials, please go through your respective Telecom
Services Sales Director.
All Telecom Services routine maintenance will be conducted during established maintenance
window(s). Currently, the Telecom Services standard network maintenance window is: 12:01
AM to 6:00 AM (local time) Monday – Sunday.
Note: While the specified maintenance window is six hours, maintenance may not require the
use of this entire window.
Note: Maintenance may be restricted during holiday periods including Thanksgiving, Christmas,
and New Year.
Maintenance is work that must be performed for the Telecom Services network and services to
continue operating effectively. Maintenance is organized into three general types of work:
· Standard Maintenance
· Emergency Maintenance
· Routine Maintenance
Standard Maintenance is any planned or predictable need to make a change to the current
state of the Network, Systems, Voice, Video, Commercial, or Plant infrastructures serving
Telecom Services Customers. Standard maintenance is performed during the standard Telecom
Services maintenance window as defined in Section 7.1.1 above.
Type of Description of
Notification Maintenance Window
Maintenance Maintenance / Examples
Non- Monday - Friday
Scheduled maintenance
Emergency / No Notification
that does not present a 00:01am – 06:00am
Non-Service
risk to customer services. Local Time
Affecting
Non-scheduled
Emergency / Every Day
maintenance that does
Non-Service No Notification 00:01am – 06:00am
not present a risk to
Affecting Local Time
customer services.
Non-scheduled
Emergency / maintenance that will Every Day
Service affect, or carries a risk of Same Day 00:01am – 06:00am
Affecting affecting customer Local Time
services.
8.0 Notifications
8.1 When a change/maintenance activity is planned by either Party which affects, or may
affect, the other Party, the Party initiating the change/maintenance activity should notify
the other Party prior to the planned activity with as much notice as is commercially
reasonable.
9.1 A post-mortem review will be carried out for a Priority 1 Event, outlined in Section 5.0, if it
has been requested by either Telecom Services or at the written request of the Customer.
9.1.2 The post mortem investigation and review is a collaborative effort between Telecom
Services and the Customer and will be used to:
9.1.3 Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, a preliminary post-mortem review will be
provided to the Customer within five business days following the initial request. An updated
version of the post-mortem will be made available within ten business days of issuing the
preliminary post-mortem. If more than ten business days is needed to conclude the post
mortem review then both parties will agree to a mutually acceptable timeline for completion.
9.1.4 Intercompany meetings / teleconferences will be held as appropriate to ensure that all
issues are appropriately identified and addressed and brought to full closure.
9.1.5 Affirmative reporting to the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) by the Telecom
Services Regulatory and Government Affairs V.P. (“Regulatory V.P.”) is required for any outage
that surpasses FCC-established thresholds and a post-mortem review will be conducted each.
The definition of a defined outage by the FCC is generally a significant degradation in the ability
of an end user to establish and maintain a channel of communications as a result of failure or
degradation in the performance of a communications provider’s network. The FCC further
defined a “significant degradation” to mean a “complete loss of service or connectivity to
customers. The FCC determines the extent of a defined outage by the number of “user-
minutes” which is a mathematical result of multiplying the outage’s duration expressed in
minutes and the number of users potentially affected by the outage. For example, a 30-minute
outage that potentially affects 30,000 end users also potentially affects 900,000 user-minutes
(30 minutes x 30,000 users = 900,000 user-minutes). These FCC reporting requirements apply
broadly, and include 911 special facilities, CLEC tandem switches, SS7 functionality, and other
network components and functions. The first report to the FCC is required within 120 minutes
of discovering the reportable outage, therefore, it is imperative that the Regulatory V.P. is
notified immediately upon discovery of the reportable outage. Due to complexities of the FCC’s
rules, contact the Regulatory V.P. 24/7 immediately upon learning of a significant outage in
order for his assessment of report ability. Regulatory V.P.: Robert McCausland Cell/Text 469-644-
4954.
10.1 Telecom Services remains committed to combating fraudulent traffic of all types, and
works cooperatively with law enforcement and with other providers in that effort. Telecom
Services cannot and will not tolerate the use of its network for the completion of fraudulent
traffic.
10.2 Please contact West Fraud Department via email or call advising of potential Fraud,
Spoofing, Traffic Pumping, Vishing, Scams or other illegitimate activities, a ticket should be
opened and investigated.
10.3 Escalation notification for Fraudulent Traffic activities should be sent as follows:
11.1 The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (“CALEA”) was enacted in
1994 to ensure that properly-authorized electronic surveillance could be conducted on
modern networks by law enforcement agencies. Under CALEA, providers (including Telecom
Services) and equipment manufacturers must provide the required interfaces and capabilities
for traditional voice networks and for Interconnected VoIP and broadband networks. Both
voice and Internet traffic is included.
11.2 To ensure compliance, Immediately, 24 x 7, refer all Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act (“CALEA”) or demands inquires of any nature to: Robert McCausland
Cell/Text 469-644-4954 or David Lewis Cell/Text 469-231-3668.
Everything about each such request must be protected from disclosure to any unauthorized
individual, including employees, and all such requests must be carefully scrutinized by Telecom
Services’s CALEA Contacts to ensure complete and lawful authorization before any information
(e.g., CDRs and other call records, number assignments, customer information, carriers in the
call flows, or the like) or surveillance access is provided. No exception is permissible.
Tier
Telecom Services Network Operations Center and Escalation Level
Primary Contact Work Mobile
866-905-1735 Tier I &
NOC NOC Technician 866-905-1736 II
The Customer will be required to provide the appropriate information when reporting an issue
to Telecom Services. Please ensure all appropriate information is made available to the NOC
representative, via phone or email, when requesting a ticket to be opened, else this request will
add unnecessary delay in opening the ticket and providing resolution.
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What number is being dialed? Is this the only number failing?
Question #2: What is the originating number?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the end of the
message)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: What Point Code are you sending this to?
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What number is being dialed? Is this the only number failing?
Question #2: What is the originating number?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the end of the
message)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: SIP, what is the IP address you are sending to.....xx.xx.xx.xx
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What 8XX is being dialed? Is this the only 8xx number failing?
Question #2: What is the originating number?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the end of the
message)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: What Point Code are you sending this to?
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What Telephone Number is being dialed? Is this the only number failing?
Question #2: What is the originating number?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the end of the
message)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: What Point Code are you sending this to?
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What 8XX is being dialed? Is this the only 8xx number failing?
Question #2: What is the originating number?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the end of the
message)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: SIP, what is the IP address you are sending to.....xx.xx.xx.xx
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What 8XX is being dialed? Is this the only 8xx number failing?
Question #2: What is the originating number?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What message is being received? (Make sure that you get the trailer at the end of the
message)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: SIP, what is the IP address you are sending to.....xx.xx.xx.xx
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What is your circuit ID?
Question #2: What is the Telecom Services CTN?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What is the state of the circuit? (What alarm are you seeing i.e. AIS, Yellow, other?)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: Is Telecom Services the sole provider to you for this location?
Question #7: Is this a total market outage?
Question #8: Is there diversity in place for this route?
Question #9: Do you have the ability to reroute to an alternate provider until this is resolved?
Question #10: What is your internal ticket number?
Errors on circuit
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What is your circuit ID?
Question #2: What is the Telecom Services CTN?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What is the state of the circuit? (What alarm are you seeing i.e. AIS, Yellow, other?)
Question #5: What is the date and time of the failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: Is Telecom Services the sole provider to you for this location?
Question #7: Is this a total market outage?
Question #8: Is there diversity in place for this route?
Question #9: Do you have the ability to reroute to an alternate provider until this is resolved?
Question #10: What is your internal ticket number?
Fiber Cut
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What is your circuit ID?
Question #2: What is the Telecom Services CTN?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What is the date and time of the failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #5: Is this a total market outage?
Question #6: Is there diversity in place for this route?
Question #7: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What is being worked on?
Question #2: What is the expected impact? (circuit/s effected if applicable)
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What is the maintenance window for the work being performed?
Question #5: What is the date and time of the call failure? Year-month-day hour time zone
Question #6: What is your internal ticket number?
Customer Contact:
Customer Phone:
Customer Email:
Question #1: What is changing?
Question #2: What is the originating IP info?
Question #3: Who is the technical point of contact for this issue?
Question #4: What are you adding or changing?
Question #5: When is this change needed? (Priority level)
Question #6: What is your internal ticket number?