Transcript C21 updates for 17th Oct web call

Welcome to the first
Quarterly update on BT’s 21CN programme
17 October 2008
BT's 21CN programme is subject to consultation and further development.
Dates and other details should be treated as indicative only, and subject to
change
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Agenda
• Quick recap on 21CN –
objectives & current scope
• The 21CN programme – where are we now?
• What is the 21CN Deployment Strategy Plan (DSP)?
– When is it issued and where?
– What information does it contain?
• The Voice Strategy and migration plans
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Wholesale Broadband Connect Converged (WBCC)
Wholesale Voice Connect (WVC)
Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
ISDN
Current consultation activities underway
Q&A
Feedback
Speakers:
– Bill du Cann, Debbie Lewis, Niall Tanner
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What are the objectives and scope of BT’s next
generation network – 21CN?
• The objectives of BT’s 21CN programme are to enhance the customer
experience, accelerate product to market times and reduce costs
• 21CN is fundamentally about customer choice. It is a platform for
software-driven, open innovation by BT, our customers and partners
across the globe
• BT is streamlining 17 networks into one platform, reusing capabilities
and removing complexity
• The UK core infrastructure is 100% complete and will
be capable of managing the significant growth
in capacity from new media content
• 21CN involves updates to the core of the network
but is complementary to BT’s plans for the rollout
of next generation fibre access
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21CN network architecture overview
Multi-service Access
Converged core
service access
Call
Control
Copper
WWW
Backhaul
IP/MPLS
Fibre &
Copper
MSAN
Content
ISP
Wireless
Other CPs’
networks
MSAN = Multi-Service Access Node
IP = Internet Protocol
MPLS = Multi-Protocol Label Switching
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What is the 21CN Deployment Strategy Plan
(DSP)?
The Deployment Strategy Plan provides:
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A comprehensive and current overview of key elements of BT’s UK 21CN
programme
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Information on 21CN drivers, product and infrastructure delivery plans,
trial and migration plans
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Three main components are:
– introduction/launch of new products
– replication of existing products
– migration of customers
Issue frequency and document access
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There is a formal commitment to
update/republish on a quarterly basis
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Can be found via the secure area
of the website, for access please
contact [email protected]
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Key elements of the 21CN Deployment
Strategy Plan
Voice
Broadband
Covered later in presentation
Introduction of Wholesale Broadband Connect
(WBC) and Wholesale Broadband Managed
Connect (WBMC)
Data
BT Wholesale TDM products under feasibility
Introduction of harmonised Ethernet products
Interconnect
products
Next Generation Network Call Conveyance (NGNCC)
Multi Service Interconnect Link (MSIL)
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Overview: BT 21CN voice portfolio
Access
LLU
services
Gives CPs direct
access to the
Openreach “copper”
WLR
BT manages
Openreach the underlying
“copper”
WVC
(WBCC)
BT
Wholesale
BT manages
the underlying
“copper”
Features
CP manages end
user service
package
BT provides ‘wholesale’
analogue or digital multiline telephony services
for CPs
BT provides
connectivity to CP
call server and
features
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Target Market
Changes due
to 21CN
CPs wanting to
invest in their own
networks
Improved Line
Test capability as
an option
CPs wanting to
minimise their
network investment
CPs wanting to
utilise their NGN
investment
Planned Voice
Migration to 21CN
with minimal
change feature set
and interfaces.
New 21CN service;
CPs can choose to
migrate post Planned
Voice Migration at
any site
Voice strategy – Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
• Openreach’s Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) portfolio
enables CPs to offer their own-branded telephony
services over the Openreach network
• CPs access the WLR2 products through
the Service Provider Gateway (SPG)
• Openreach have announced their intent to retire
WLR2
• WLR3 is the latest development
of the Wholesale Line Rental portfolio
• WLR3 is delivered via Openreach’s
strategic Equivalence Management
Platform (EMP)
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Voice strategy –
Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) on 21CN
• WLR on 21CN feature set discussions will continue at the
Industry WLR Commercial Forum
• The installed base of WLR3 will migrate to 21CN on a like for
like basis through the national migration from the end of April
2010
• This will be for PSTN and ISDN, on a rolling geographic basis
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Quarterly web-call – Voice strategy – ISDN
ISDN strategy:
• ISDN will continue to be supported on 21CN
In addition ….
• BT will offer a portfolio of IP-based products
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Voice strategy – Wholesale Broadband Connect
Converged (WBCC)
What does it do?
What are the benefits?
Offers CPs a packaged
end-to-end converged voice
and broadband service
Allows CPs to offer
Broadband services
Will also be offered in a
voice-only form, Wholesale
Voice Connect (WVC)
Allows CPs to differentiate
in broadband / voice
features, overlay and
integrate next generation
SIP based applications,
and call packages
Provides Narrowband
service to allow CPs to
supply Publicly Available
Telephone Service (PATS)
services via their call
servers
Voluntary migration to WBCC starts in January 2010 in specific geographies.
National migration to WBCC starts from end April 2010 following WLR migrations to 21CN
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Voice strategy – Wholesale Voice Connect (WVC)
What does it do?
What are the benefits?
An alternative to WLR allowing the CP’s
call server to deliver the voice service
Gives the ability to innovate,
differentiate and segment through voice
services that do not directly rely on a
BT owned feature set or capability
Gives the ability to leverage call server
capability and offer narrowband and
broadband derived voice services
Benefits from synergies, a common
infrastructure/system interfaces and
product family components (where a
CP is also offering WBCC (voice and
broadband) to its end users, either in
the same or different geographies)
The voice only variant
of WBCC that will offer CPs
an alternative to Wholesale
Line Rental (WLR) plus
Wholesale Calls / Carrier
Pre Select (CPS)
Allows the voice service
to be defined and delivered
by CP’s owned or managed
network
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Voice migration first phase of voice pilot activity
– Pathfinder
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The voice migration and pilot activity in preparation for voice network
migration is known as Pathfinder
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This pilot activity involves voice line migrations only at present
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The pilot is taking place in a small area of South Wales
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Pathfinder will provide learning and build confidence
for large scale migrations
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All planning and operational activities are carried
out in close collaboration with a working
group of service providers
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We are contacting service providers
with customers in the area ahead
of migration activities
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National voice migration begins
in April 2010
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Pathfinder information
BT's 21CN programme is subject to consultation and further development.
Dates and other details should be treated as indicative only, and subject to change
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After that …… Pathfinder +
• The aim of Pathfinder+ is to pilot to a multi-service
environment on 21CN and strengthen the focus on customer
experience
• Multi-service scope – for example:
- ISDN and new product trials
- Customer migration trials
- Interoperability trials
- Decommissioning trials
• Currently being scoped and defined
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Consult21 – what’s the latest news?
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Consult21 – coming soon
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So in terms of implementation
– what else is going on?
Work with industry on pre-migration activities and processes
• Preparations for Pathfinder line migrations
• Work with CPs on process definition and refinement
– contact management
– on the night activity management
– customer impact matrix – updates
– managing upgrades
• Customer premise equipment (CPE) testing
– Current activities underway
• Migration Control Centre (MCC) team
– Support activities and responsibilities
– MCC migration portal
• Emergency and critical numbers:
maintaining services no matter what
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Useful information & how to get engaged
More informantion?
then contact [email protected]
Or visit these sites
The Consult21 website:
www.btwholesale.com/consult21
The independent public information
website covering the process of migration:
http://www.switchedonuk.org
For general information about BT’s 21CN
programme go to: http://www.btplc.com/21CN/
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Questions
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Answers
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Quarterly webcall Your views?
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Thank you for coming on the call
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