January 12, 1998
Team,
The following are the meeting minutes for the January 12, 1998, Detroit,
Michigan implementation meeting. The meeting was held via conference
call. The attendees are as follows:
Robin Meier Ameritech
Dee Branch Ameritech
Larry Vasquez AT&T
Larry Prosser Brooks Fiber
Mick Koutz GTE
Dick Dowd MCI
Absent:
Rick Arzadon TCG
? WorldCom
The agenda is as follows:
Introductions/Overview Vasquez
Detroit GA Delay Vasquez
NPAC, NPA Split Update
Revised GA Date
Celio Notification
Cost Recovery Petition Ameritech
LNP Rollout Schedule Update Meier
Open Issues All
Future Meetings
Introductions/Overview
1998 Michigan Implementation Member Changes as Follows:
Dick Dowd is replacing Jim Joerger for MCI
Robin Meier is replacing Barry Bishop for Ameritech
Larry Prosser joins us from Brooks Fiber
Barry Bishop, Lockheed Martin, will continue to keep www.ported.com
available for LNP information.
NPA Split Update
Larry outlined that once again, the NPA Split software is not ready.
This is due to a delay for the fix from ESI, Lockheed Martin's software
vendor. From last month's meeting minutes, the revised GA date was
re-scheduled to January 5, 1998. Obviously this date was not be met due
to the delay in the fix. The Service Providers were informed by
Lockheed Martin , of the delay, via an e-mail sent to each company's
testers on Thursday, December 18. Lockheed verbally updated everyone
during a cross regional conference call on January 9, 1998.
The software fix was made available to Lockheed Martin on January 7,
1998 for loading into their test machine. The software was loaded and
ready for testing on January 9, 1998. Service Providers will now be
testing from January 12th through January 20th. If the testing is
successful, the new target date for general availability will be January
21, 1998. This is pending any Ameritech regulatory issues that may be
filed with the Michigan Public Services Commission for cost recovery.
Ameritech has already filed a cost recovery petition in the state of
Illinois. Per Bob Reynolds, Ameritech, a similar petition is expected
to be filed by the end of January.
We will be in a better position to determine progress on the "fix", for
the NPA Split problem, in the next few days.
Celio Update On Detroit General Availability Delay
Larry Vasquez has not advised Bill Celio, Michigan Public Services
Commission, of the fourth re-scheduling of the GA date. As mentioned
above, the new date is January 21, 1998. Larry is going to wait and see
how the testing of the NPA Split software goes, this week, before
advising Bill Celio of the date change. Whether the fix is successful
or not will be quickly evident over the next few days. If the fix
works, then Larry will notify Bill of the revised target date of
1/21/98.
If it does not work, we will wait and see what the new date would be.
Switch Rollout Schedule
Robin Meier is responsible for sending out a revised switch rollout
schedule due to the GA delay. This new schedule would reflect the new
dates for LNP deployment in the Detroit MSA switches. Robin will be
checking whin within Ameritech manages this roll-out schedule and let us
know during the next call.
Open Issues
Per Dick Dowd, the WorldCom contact's are Shelly Shaw, 214-939-3264 and
Brenda Flood. Larry will copy them both on these meeting minutes
Question: Will Ameritech load codes as of 01/21/98 or is Ameritech
still holding out as in Chicago?
Action: Determine Ameritech's position ASAP.
Responsible: Robin Meier
Status: Assigned 01/12/98. Per Robin, Ameritech hopes to respond
no later than 01/16/98.
Issue: Ameritech needs to update end office rollout date for Detroit
taking in to consideration the G.A. date of 01/21/98.
Action: Determine and publish Ameritech end office rollout schedule
for Detroit.
Responsible: Robin Meier
Status: Assigned 01/12/98. Per Robin, Ameritech hopes to respond
no later than
GTE and WorldCom need to become certified with Lockheed Martin's NPAC
due to being new entrants in the Chicago area. Once certified, both
should port at least one TN with Ameritech then turn up for service.
Question: How does Ameritech plan on handling triggers? Assuming
Detroit goes G.A. on 01/21/98 and assuming that Ameritech,
MCI and TCG all load their codes on that date, will the
codes all be triggered upon loading? The real question
is does this mean that queries will be made on all calls
within the loaded NPA-NXX as soon as loaded?
Action: Determine whether Ameritech will be triggering all codes
open to portability from the start or waiting until the
porting of the first TN within the NPA-NXX that is open
to portability?
Responsible: Robin Meier
Status: Assigned 01/12/98.
Open Issue:
We still need to discuss how GTE, Brooks Fiber and WorldCom will come on
board early next year. Also, how we will address Grand Rapids and Ann
Arbor later in 1998. This will be a topic during our February
conference call.
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Future Meetings
The next scheduled conference is on February 2, 1998. The meeting will
start at 8:00 Central Time, 9:00 Eastern Time. The conference call will
last one hour and we will be using the same bridge number. We should
know by then the status of the GA date for Detroit and whether we have
any regulatory issues to discuss.
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If you have any questions or corrections to this memo, please feel free
to call me on (312) 230-6253 or via E-Mail on lvasquez2@ att.com
LV
1/12/98