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New to Consult21?

Welcome as a new user to the Consult21 website.
Please use this page to gain an understanding of what Consult21 is, why it exists and who are the key people involved.
You can also navigate to the other areas of the Consult21 site, and there are search facilities to help you to find what you're looking for.

The following links will be useful if you wish to know more about BT's 21CN project and about Consult21.

The other tabs above can be used to find other areas within consult21 and help out new users getting used to the site. If you have any further needs that are not addressed here, please do not hesitate to contact the Consult21 team

Sitemap

From here you can see the structure of Consult21 and navigate to any and all of the pages within this site.
You can click on the buttons next to each groups name to view the subpages of each group, and you can also hover over each of the working groups to read more information about what each group is responsible for.

Governance
Industry partners have set up a steering board to manage the programme
Architecture & Framework
Working Group developed to agree the relevant underlyng 21CN network architecture functionality.
Working Group developed to capture generic industry wide requirments to enable ordering, repair and billing of 21CN based (obligatory) products.
Products
Working Group developed to manage the 21CN consultations for voice access products
Working group developed to manage the 21CN consultations for data connectivity product sets.
Working Group to manage the 21CN consultations for interconnect products.
Implementation
Working Groups Tools
We have produced a useful set of materials that you can use to communicate to your employees, business partners and customers about 'switched-on' the public information campaign to communication about the process of migration.
Latest news and output on major industry events on the consult21 programme.

Working groups

If you are familiar with Consult21 and you are looking for a specific document (consultation document, briefing or closure document), you might want to start by looking in our document library, which lists all document's produced by Consult21 with active links to each:-

Consultation and briefing document references

If you know which group you are interested in, the following links may be useful:-

Group Direct link to page containing:
Broadband Consultation documents Closure documents Briefings
Communications
Contracts Consultation documents Briefings
Implementation and migration (including confromance testing)
Consultation documents Briefings
Interconnect and portfolio Consultation documents Closure documents Briefings
Line access Consultation documents Briefings
Network structures Consultation documents Closure documents Briefings
Point to point Consultation documents Closure documents Briefings
Resellers
Systems and processes Briefings

Topics/activities

If you are searching for information related to a specific topic of interest, the following links may be useful:-

  • CPE compatability
    Consumer premises equipment experts page, containing all information related to the testing of CPE to ensure compatability with BT's 21st Century Network.
  • Migration customer experience
    This section contains information about the customer experience issues which occur during migration to 21CN
  • Interconnect provision and billing
    This section contains information produced by the interconnect provision and billing experts group
  • ISDN
    This section contains information on the ISDN testing experts group
  • Migration customer impact
    This section contains tools to aid the understanding of customer impacts during migration processes/span>
  • MSIL
    Ethernet Multi-Service Interconnect Link (Ethernet MSIL) is a BT Wholesale product to interconnect BT's 21CN with other Communications Provider's equivalent network. It supports services such as Next Generation Network Call Conveyance (NGN CC) and Wholesale Broadband Connects (WBC). In-Building Handover (IBH), In-Span Handover (ISH), nominated ISH and Customer Sited Handover (CSH) variants are offered.
  • NICC B2B
    This is a technical working group of the NICC, which was set up to "address and agree necessary technical arrangements for interconnection and interoperability for networks and services in the UK".
  • WVC consultations
    The WVC proposition is made up of number of key components which allow CPs to construct a telephone service with a distinctive service/feature wrap.
  • Pathfinder
    This section contains information about pathfinder. Pathfinder is a precursor to the mass migration of customers on to 21CN, testing the delivery of an end-to-end 21CN service comprising network operations, systems, processes and service management, including product and service migration.
  • Pre-migration scheduling
    Information related to the premigration scheduling project
  • PSTN emulation
    This section contains information about public switch telephone system (PSTN) emulation on the 21st century network
  • Resellers information
    This part of the website is dedicated to providing information on the process of migration to 21CN for the reseller community.
  • Systems roadmap
    This section contains information about BTs systems roadmap
  • WBC migration
    This section contains information about wholesale broadband connect (WBC) migration. Wholesale Broadband Connect is the new broadband aggregation and transport service, with national connectivity, that will equip you to connect your broadband and data customers to your own core network and service platform - efficiently and cost effectively. It will underpin much of the future development of broadband on our next generation network.