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Archived System CR SCR121608-01 Detail

April 1, 2013 UPDATE: The planned retirement date for MEDIACC is now January 31, 2014.

[Original CR planned effective date: Fourth quarter 2009/First quarter 2010]

Status History

Project Meetings

1/15/2014 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink provided a reminder of the planned retirement of these systems effective January 31, 2014. Mark said we will be removing references to CEMR and MEDIACC from Wholesale web site via Level 1 notifications to be sent on Friday January 31, 2014 with an effective date of February 3, 2014.

Kim Isaacs - Integra said there is an issue that they uncovered in the transition to CEMR-MTG and that CenturyLink offered that CEMR will remain available for historical purposes. Kim said she has not seen any notification identifying that CEMR will remain available.

Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said that notice will be coming out in the next day or so and was going through the approval process.

12/11/2013 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink provided a reminder that the initial retirement notice was sent May 6, 2013. The final retirement notice was sent June 17, 2013 and that a courtesy reminder notice is planned for December 31, 2013. The system will also be retired as of January 31, 2014.

11/20/2013 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said this system will also be retired as of January 31, 2014. Mark said the formal notice was sent previously but a courtesy reminder notification will be sent December 31, 2013. Only a couple customers remain.

10/16/13 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said we have talked about this Change Request in multiple CMP meetings to remind customers that MEDIACC will be retired as of January 31, 2014. Mark said a Courtesy reminder notice is planned for December 31, 2013 and that he thinks there is only one customer remaining on MEDIACC at this point.

09/18/13 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said MEDIACC will also be retiring January 31, 2014 and that there are only a couple customers remaining to make the move to MTG. Mark asked if there were any questions. There were none.

8/21/13 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said this is a reminder of the upcoming retirement of both CEMR and MEDIACC as of January 31, 2014. Mark requested that customers not wait until the last month prior to retirement and that they should contact Carrie Bousfield at CenturyLink to get moved over to the new applications.

4/17/13 Monthly Systems CMP Meeting Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said the retirement of MEDIACC was originally planned for the 4th quarter 2009 or early 2010. The CR was subsequently placed in Deferred status. Denise said the planned effective date for retiring MEDIACC is also January 31, 2014. Denise asked if there were any questions. There were none.

Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said the initial retirement notice will be sent in the next couple weeks.

Denise Martinez – CenturyLink said yes.

5/18/11 Systems CMP Monthly Meeting Mark Coyne – Qwest relayed that the CR had been in a deferred status and that Qwest was proposing the CR be Withdrawn. Mark said if there were no objections, Qwest would change the status to Withdrawn unless another CLEC would like to sponsor the CR. There were no objections.

11/17/10 Systems CMP Monthly Meeting Mark Coyne – Qwest indicated that this goes hand in hand with SCR121608-02. Cim Chambers – Qwest indicated that we are looking at doing two things: 1) retiring CEMR and replacing it with a front GUI interface, and 2) retiring MEDIACC and replacing that with an XML B2B ticketing interface. Cim relayed that no functionality that currently exists in CEMR or MEDIACC will be dropped. Qwest is simply replacing these systems and moving the functions to different front end B2B gateways.

Kim Isaacs – Integra asked if customers will have the ability to review the new gateways and GUI prior to implementation to be certain that their experience will be the same.

Cim Chambers – Qwest indicated that technical specifications will be released in accordance with the CMP document for the B2B gateway. As far as the GUI, Cim was not familiar with the requirements and testing for a new GUI. Susan Lorence – Qwest relayed that we had send out a 270 day notice about two years ago when we originally started this effort . Susan said we are going to start that whole timeline again and the first thing that goes out is the two notifications that identify that we are going to start down this path. Susan said we will include the 120 day notice and the high points of the timeline in the 270 day notice. (11/29/10 Comments to minutes received from Integra in CAPS) Susan Lorence – Qwest relayed that IT WAS about two years ago when we originally started this effort. Susan said we are going to start that whole timeline again and the first thing that goes out is the two notifications that identify that we are going to start down this path. Susan said we will include the 120 day notice and the high points of the timeline in the 270 day notice.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said regarding the statement that the functionality will remain the same should be judged from the customer point of view. Kim said she understood using the system on receiving tickets may not be changing but would like to confirm that all the functionality is there and that nothing has been lost. Susan Lorence – Qwest indicated that Qwest is in the very early stages and we will make note to insure there is ample time to review.

Mark Coyne – Qwest indicated that the CMP document outlines the terms for CLECs to be able to review the change and that Qwest will be following that process. Mark asked if there were any other questions. There were none.

ATTACHMENT L Bonnie Johnson – Integra asked if she could go back to the MEDIACC MTG CR. Bonnie said Qwest has a CR that is retiring MEDIACC and that MTG is an application to application. Bonnie said that since CEMR is a GUI, is MTG going to act as an application to application and GUI also. Bonnie asked if Qwest was removing a GUI option and that there is no CR to retire CEMR.

Mark Coyne – Qwest indicated that the GUI functionality will still be there.

Cim Chambers – Qwest indicated that there is a GUI front end and a B2B MEDIACC replacement, so both.

Bonnie Johnson – Integra asked so where is the CR to retire CEMR.

Susan Lorence – Qwest indicated that we will issue a separate CR to do that.

Cim Chambers – Qwest – Qwest indicated that she thought the timelines for that are slightly different than the much longer timelines on the app to app interface replacements.

Kim Isaacs – Integra asked why there was a name change from Common to Maintenance and questioned whether some of the functionality to be available in MTG was not going to available in CTG.

Cim Chambers – Qwest indicated the name change was not that important. The functionality available in CEMR today will be available; customers will be able to do the same things: create tickets, if you do testing, or whatever. The same is true for the replacement for MEDIACC. Nothing will be dropped.

Mark Coyne – Qwest indicated that another reason was that CTG was an acronym being used somewhere else so it needed to change.

Cim Chambers – Qwest indicated it was the name of an actual internal application and we did not want to confuse it. The name did not have any meaningful correlation to scope.

Mark Coyne – Qwest asked if there were any other questions. There were none.

12/17/08 Systems CMP Monthly Meeting

Denise Martinez-Qwest said that Qwest will be retiring the existing MEDIACC application that will be replaced by a new repair Gateway CTG (Common Ticketing Gateway). Currently MEDIACC uses CMIP communication protocol today. Qwest is migrating to an XML interface. She said that we were targeting the fourth quarter of 2009 or first quarter of 2010.

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