Verizon representatives discussed in a meeting with FCC...
Verizon representatives discussed in a meeting with FCC staff the benefits of an annual network resiliency certification program “centered on a core set of practices that would be developed by industry and other stakeholders,” according to an ex parte filing.…
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Verizon earlier proposed that the FCC should require carriers to certify (CD May 30 p6) they meet “a core set of 911 resiliency practices.” Thaty came in comments responding to the March NPRM asking what requirements the FCC should propose in light of 911 outages during last year’s derecho. “We discussed why current best practices require updating and refining by stakeholders before they could form the basis for a certification,” Verizon said (http://bit.ly/16uxrwH). Verizon also offered details on its review following the derecho wind storm of the carrier’s connections with the public safety answering points it serves. “Each review has required about 40 hours of engineering time, on average, which does not include the time for any remediation,” the carrier said. “In particular, these reviews require manual efforts to collate information from various different systems, and then automated assessments of diversity are performed."