Common use of Managed Network Services Clause in Contracts

Managed Network Services. ACS will design a network infrastructure to support the mainframe and server migration from the Safeco ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ data center (RDC), and applicable remote sites, to the ACS NWSC in Hillsboro. The appropriate network infrastructure will be built for the systems that will be housed in the NWSC and at Symetra headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. There will be enough bandwidth installed to support remote access to the servers and mainframe. Network connectivity will take approximately 90 days to install from contract sign date. At that time, the remote sites can be configured and tested on the network which will take approximately 30 days. The voice strategy will consist of implementing a new Avaya PBX solution at the Bellevue, Washington facility, and of managing the existing Avaya switches in six sites and Centrex switches in two sites. Upon contract signing, ACS will plan and engineer the installation and establishment of circuit connectivity between the RDC and the NWSC that will be used to facilitate the migration activities. This also will allow the RDC and the NWSC to access the existing Safeco-provided Symetra network as required to support the business. As each additional circuit and site is turned up, associated network management services will be installed, configured and made available at the ACS ECC in the Dallas data center-with visibility from the NWSC-to ensure visibility and manageability. After new service has been established at all sites, existing connections will no longer be required and ACS will submit a request to Symetra to disconnect the circuit. This work will be performed in a coordinated and seamless fashion, ensuring an invisible transition from the existing network to the new network with no impact on Symetra users, customers or affiliates. As this is a Greenfield network implementation, ACS will manage the acquisition, configuration and staging of new network equipment for deployment to all applicable Symetra sites. ACS will perform the necessary Table of Contents discovery on the current network state as part of the network engineering transition planning. Network engineering will take into account IP addressing, summarization, application loading, security requirements and traffic patterns. ACS network engineering will ensure that application access is not impacted during the transition of network by performing a traffic analysis of all applications to ensure that application interdependencies are fully understood before services are migrated from the RDC to the NWSC. Our transition planning for voice services focuses on implementing standard management practices for change, problem and request management. ACS will establish functional personnel responsibility matrices to identify primary support for locations and equipment. Support queues will be created in ACS Remedy for all Symetra-related problem tickets, changes and requests. We will establish regular meetings between ACS support personnel, vendors and Symetra personnel as appropriate. A daily, weekly and monthly task list will be identified per location with responsibilities clearly defined and assigned. The first 60 days will focus on evaluating the state of the system and process documentation. ACS will identify all required information and document all systems, processes and lacking information. On-call responsibilities will be established and their respective escalation procedures will be documented.