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• Network Equipment (inc. CLEI)
• Location Information (inside plant and outside plant) (inc. CLLI)
• Connections, Circuits and Facilities (inc. CLFI, CLCI S/S, CLCI MSG and NC/NCI)
• Services (inc. USO/USOC/FIDs)

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• Erroneous data capture (equipment dimensions and voltages, address information, etc)
• Inconsistent Data Capture  (e.g. Main Street vs. Main St.)
• Silo mentality with respect to data and data management
• Multiple data models and databases across a single enterprise
• As many or more references and ordering codes as there are vendors
• Delays delivering service to the end customer due to errors in, or mistrust of, data in the systems
• Overheads maintaining the same information in multiple locations and systems
• Overheads translating from one data model to another
• Difficulties tracking orders and delivery of service for leased lines, network equipment, interconnections, and services, amongst others
• Demanding efforts to report asset usage to regulatory bodies due to information sources being inconsistent

• Standardizes the physical equipment labeling and bar-coding, enabling visibility whilst in service
• Standardizes equipment ordering codes
• Identifies equipment to revision level
• Provides a central online database of equipment  characteristics to enable easy access to equipment specifications
• Facilitates the Service Provider community to continue to develop the Equipment Information Service, ensuring continued relevance and alignment in the industry
• Provides in depth expertise in managing equipment data.

• Standardizes address information across Service Providers and within a Service Provider, ensuring an address is recorded in one place and can be consumed by many
  • Standardizing location formats helps service providers coordinate service delivery, communicate locations of faulty equipment to repair centers, audit assets, and automate process flows.
• Centralizes and standardizes Service Provider Interconnection locations
  • This registry boosts trading partner collaboration by providing access to more than eight million registered network locations and interconnection points.

• Standardizes language for identifying physical and logical connections
• Covers facilities and circuits, start and end points, multiplexing functionality, network channel and network channel interfaces, trunks, special circuits, leased lines and more
• Provides a shared view of network connections.
• Supports over 10 million interconnection requests a year

• Standardized, flexible definitions for every stage in the lifecycle of a service
• Support over 17 million service orders a year
• Make it easier to tariff like-services across providers
• Communicate wholesale and retail offerings to businesses and other service providers
• Describe services for BSSs/OSSs
• Avoid retooling BSSs/OSSs for new services

• 90% reduction in capturing equipment characteristics data (voltages, physical size, etc)
• Cut 90% of master data administration costs
• Streamlined interconnection orders by 30%
• Improve the equipment inventory process by a multiple of 12
• Cut failed dispatch efforts by 12%
• Reduce network investment by $5m per $1bn invested.
• Reduce time and costs of network integration by 35%

• Operation for more than 30 years
• SAP NetWeaver^® - certification
• Referenced by ANSI, ETSI, ITU, ATIS, TM Forum, IETF, and ISO
• Large client  base, ranging from small independents to incumbents with revenues of $100bn+
• Clients in North America, Mexico, South America, Europe and the Middle East
• Over 1300 network equipment providers involved