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Access Technical Analysis and Consulting Services - Benefits to Service Providers

Local Exchange Network Operators/Service Providers can receive both direct and indirect benefits from Telcordia access system Technical Analysis and Consulting services. Telcordia provides unsurpassed experience and understanding of the local exchange, including access technology, services, and key equipment operations support functions.

The Telcordia resources available to meet your equipment analysis and consulting needs include:

  • System Engineers that have authored numerous Telcordia Generic Requirements, including GR-303 and GR-57 (VF transmission and signaling).
  • The industry recognized authority on GR-303 implementations and analysis
  • Engineers that average 15+ years experience
  • Engineers with a broad view of behaviors of embedded RDTs and IDT implementations
  • Unequalled Testing Experience
  • Worked with and respected by all major service providers and equipment suppliers
  • Experience with the three major Class 5 switches/IDTs and all major RDT network elements
  • Experience with several "next-generation" IDT implementations

Service providers can directly contract with Telcordia for Technical Analysis and Consulting services. Telcordia provides a cost effective supplement to your in-house network integration testing, and can provide consulting and testing services related to hard to diagnose field problems. Please contact Scott Yeomans (732-699-3443) for more information.

Ask Your Equipment Suppliers for a Copy of Their Telcordia Technical Analysis Report

Telcordia provides indirect benefits to Service Providers through its network element supplier technical analysis services, which is testing paid for by the equipment supplier.

Telcordia network element supplier technical analysis can provide a "front-end" to the your product selection process, helping to:

  • Identify problems with Access supplier equipment before you invest your resources in evaluating the product
  • Reduce the risk of network incompatibility with existing and evolving network elements
  • Provide a third party objective analysis of the product (report available to you from the equipment supplier)

Additional Service Provider benefits includes:

  • No direct cost to you (i.e., equipment supplier-funded)
  • Opportunities to influence testing scope and focus through "3rd party participation"
  • Receive early results through Telcordia/Supplier Readout Meetings

Service provider 3rd party participation allows a service provider to be involved in every step along the way of a formal test, from planning to interim readouts, from observation of testing to early access to draft reports. This type of involvement requires the approval of the network element equipment provider. The approval is formally documented as part of the equipment supplier's testing services contract with Telcordia.

A conceptual relationship between the Telcordia network element supplier technical analysis process and a service provider's internal testing (associated with its product selection process) is illustrated below.

A conceptual relationship between the Telcordia network element supplier technical analysis process and a service provider's internal testing (associated with its product selection process)

Early Telcordia involvement with your network element equipment supplier's product can produce significant savings during your product assessment activity by identifying troubles BEFORE the product reaches your lab.

As a service provider, the simplest way to leverage the strength and experience of the Telcordia technical analysis services team is to request your prospective network element suppliers provide you with a copy of their product's Telcordia analysis report.