1 MET SEMINAR 2007 Bon Pipkin AT&T 1. 2 MET SEMINAR - 2007 The New AT&T Recent Merger Activities Combined: SBC AT&T Corporation Bell South Cingular News.

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The New AT&TRecent Merger Activities Combined:

• SBC

• AT&T Corporation

• Bell South

• Cingular

• News Release:

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Industry Leader •Wireless services with 61

million subscribers

•Broadband or high speed Internet DSL, with more than 11.5 million lines in service

•Business voice and data services

•IP-based services, one of the world’s leading providers

Wireless •AT&T has nation’s largest digital voice and data network

•AT&T’s new 3G network is a super-fast, IP-based voice and data network

•AT&T delivers the widest international coverage of any U.S.-based wireless carrier

•We provide more than 47,500 “hot spots” – Wi-Fi access points – in 79

countries

Voice TVMessaging

High Speed Internet

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Voice over IP (VoIP)

IP-based and managed services

Web-hosting

Network security

Platform for the Future

Global Business Portfolio

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Compliance

AT&T Services, Inc.

Common Systems District:

Support Staff for AT&T affiliate network common systems standards.

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AT&T Services, Inc.

Common Systems District Compliance:

Sets equipment standards and evaluates new technologies for compliance:

• ATT-TP-76200: Physical Design (NEBS)

• ATT-TP-76450: Interconnection Requirements

• Available at https://ebiznet.sbc.com/sbcnebs/

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Bon Pipkin Associate Director

John TablerionNEBS Evaluation – Group SPOC

John Messina - SMEBonding & Grounding/ESD/DC Power

Larry Wong - SMEHeat Dissipation/Shock & Vibration

Fire Stopping

Mahmoud Elkenaney - SMEElectrical Safety/EMI/Lightning & Power

Fault/Acoustic Noise/ICEP/

Bon Pipkin - SMETemperature &Humidity/

Airborne Contaminants/Altitude

Sha Hoda - SMEFire Spread/ Space Planning

AT&T Network Equipment Physical Requirements

ATT-TP-76200 TEAM

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AT&T Network Equipment Interconnection Requirements

ATT-TP-76450 SMEsEd Granger: DC Power Dareus Starr: Synchronization

Jeff Langley: Alarms Mike Yeilding: Fiber

Wing Eng: Copper Doug Florence: Vendor Documentation

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Standards Document Merger Underway for:

• AT&T Local Exchange Carriers (Telcos)

• AT&T Internet Services, Inc. (U-Verse)

• AT&T L.D., ASI (LD, DSL)

• AT&T Corporation (Backhaul, Global, VoIP)

• Cingular (AT&T Wireless)

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Standards Merger: AT&T Corp.

• NEDS Standard Now

• Delays due to regulatory issues

• Requirements will be in ATT-TP-76200 & ATT-TP-76450

• Teams meeting now

• ATT-TP-76200 Issues: DC Power Transients

• ATT-TP-7645O Issues: AC Power, Dual Power Plants

• International Standards

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Standards Merger: Bell South

• Currently NEBS is TR-73638BT

• No Significant Differences due to TCG

• ATT-TP-76200 Standard & Process Effective Immediately

• ATT-TP-76450 under review

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Standards Merger: Cingular

• No Legacy Standards Document

• Notification sent to suppliers that ATT-TP-76200 and ATT-TP-76450 are now standards

• ATT-TP-76200 applicable levels and process under review

• ATT-TP-76450 under review

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AT&T Network Equipment Physical Requirements

ATT-TP-76200 Standards Applications

• Equipment Application

• Deployment Locations

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AT&T Network Equipment Physical Requirements

TP 76200 Evaluation Levels

• Level 1: Safety Requirements (Collocation, test heads, FOAs)

• Level 2: Safety and Modified Reliability Requirements

• Level 3: Safety and Full Reliability Requirements

• Ancillary

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AT&T Network Equipment Physical Requirements

Equipment Deployment Locations• CO, Huts, CEVs

• Customer Premises

• Non-CO Buildings

• Mission Critical Data Rooms

• OSP Cabinets, Level 2, 3 Environments

• OSP Customer Premises

• AT&T Labs

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Industry Issues:

• RoHS

• Energy Efficiency

• Equipment Size

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AT&T Network Equipment Physical Requirements

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