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Optical Hubbing Service (OHS) Order Guide

Optical Hubbing Service (OHS) Order Guide

Overview

The purpose of this document is to assist carriers with ordering Optical Hubbing Service.

Optical Hubbing involves deploying a dedicated Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM) system between Verizon designated Optical Hubs, and a customer premise or point of presence (POP). OHS offers an alternative to basic Entrance Facility services.

Verizon Optical Hubbing Service (OHS) reduces the space requirements and power costs involved in providing point-to-hub optical connection between your or your customer's location and a Verizon Optical Hub. It serves as an extended entrance facility across a Wave Division Multiple (WDM) based infrastructure for IntelliLight Broadband Transport (IBT), Multiplexed IntelliLight Broadband Transport services, and Custom Connect. The service also supports some Verizon Optical Networking connections.

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Pre-Order

  • A planning session is required prior to receipt of an ASR for an Optical Hub Facility. A Verizon Interoffice Facility (IOF) Engineer will determine whether or not a customer location is eligible. ASRs should not be submitted until after a case has been processed. Please contact your Verizon Account Manager to schedule a planning session.
  • Optical Hubbing Facility (OHF) is available in a 3, 5, or 7-year term arrangement.
  • The customer designated location (End User or ACTL) cannot be a collocation arrangement.
  • OHF cannot be a Meetpoint.
  • OHF cannot be a Near Out Of Franchise (NOOF) Transport.
  • The Optical Channel Facility (OCF) cannot be ordered on a stand-alone basis.
  • The customer designated location must be located within 10-15 miles of the Verizon optical hub.
  • Availability: OHS will be offered on a where-available basis. Verizon designates optical hubs at locations (LATAs) where sufficient facilities and technical capabilities exist to support OHS.

Order

When this product is ordered under a private carriage agreement (Forbearance), the Contract ID must be populated in the PNUM Field on the ASR Form. Learn more about Forbearance or contact your Account Manager for more details.


Key Fields

Field

Field Name

Description

ACTL Access Customer Termination Location Identifies the CLLI Code of the customer facility terminal location.
BAN Billing Account Number The BAN you want the service billed to. When "N" is entered in this field a new billing account will be assigned.
CFA Channel Facility Assignment The Optical Channel Facility (OCF) will carry a CFA. The Optical Hubbing Facility (OHF) will not carry a CFA.
NC Network Channel See NC / NCI / SEC NCI section below
NCI Network Channel Interface See NC / NCI / SEC NCI section below
PNUM Promotion Number The Contract ID is required for new service in the PNUM field on the ASR Form (example - FB12345)
REQTYP Requisition Type and Status S (Special) or E (End User)
SEC NCI Secondary Network Channel Interface See NC / NCI / SEC NCI section below
SPEC Service and Product Enhancement Code See SPEC section below
VTA Variable Term Agreement See the VTA section below

  • Both the Optical Hub Facility and the Optical Channel Facility can be ordered as either special access or switched access. Switched access ASRs will show an LTP entry of N; for special access, the LTP field will be blank.
  • Customers should order this service as a Point to Point configuration.
  • OHS will carry a Common Language Facility Identifier (CLFI) that uniquely identifies the CWDN with the FAC Type CW08. For Example: CR03E/CW08/IRNGTX27XXX/PLANTXXAXXX.
  • The OCF will carry a Common Language Facility Identifier (CLFI) with the same A and Z CLLIs as the OHF. For example: NCR04/S0504N/IRNGTX27XXX/IRNGTX27XXX. Note: OC48 service connections do not require an OCF and can connect directly to the Optical Hubbing Facility.
  • When connecting Custom Connect at OC48 or OC48c to OHS, the customer must specify the CFA of the OHF.
  • The Optical Hubbing Interface (OHI) carries normal Circuit Ids, CLF for Muxed and CLS for non-muxed.

NC / NCI / SECNCI

Network Channel / Network Channel Indicator / Secondary Network Channel Indicator

SONET Order Requirements Assistant

The SONET Order Requirements Assistant helps you find the entries for several fields on the Access Service Request (ASR). Using the Assistant, you can build a query using the product information about your Optical product, and find matching configurations. Then you can select the specific configuration to view the range of ASR entries for that configuration.

This easy-to-use look-up tool provides the available ASR entries for key fields such as:

NC - Network Channel

NCI - Network Channel Interface

SEC NCI - Secondary Network Channel Interface

Project Code - Project name/identification

SPEC Code - Service and Product Enhancement Code

SR - Special Routing

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SPEC

Service and Product Enhancement Code

The SONET Order Requirements Assistant mentioned above helps you find the entries for the SPEC field. For more information about Service and Product Enhancement Codes, please see the SPEC Job Aid.

VTA

Variable Term Agreement

The VTA field is a required entry for OHF and OCF. PRIADM and SECADM fields are not used with this service. When ordering the Optical Hubbing Facility (OHF) or Optical Channel Facility (OCF), the customer must populate the VTA.

Verizon West: The number of months followed by the letters "OH" is used in order to identify the order as OHS. Example: VTA = 36OH, 60OH, or 84OH.

Verizon East (South): The number of years followed by the letters "TTP" is used in order to identify the order as OHS. Example: VTA = 3TTP, 5TTP, or 7TTP.

Verizon East (North): The number of months is used in order to identify the order as OHS. Example: VTA = 36, 60, or 84.

For more information about the VTA field, please see the VTA Job Aid.

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