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Introduction
On Demand services build on standard Colt operational processes, with additional enhancements to ensure that customers benefit from a first class software defined network experience:
Note – the On Demand portal is not service impacting, and as such does not have an associated SLA for uptime.
Network faults & software faults
Colt has a high quality global fibre network that enables the provision of an annual target service availability. The target availability depends on the service option taken and the location of customer sites. The fault help desk is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Customers can report a fault at any time by contacting the Customer Service Centre and speaking to a representative in their local language.
Colt On Demand faults fall into two categories:
The Support section within the On Demand portal describes the action that needs to be taken for each type of fault. For software faults, customers need to quote the CAN number to ensure the ticket is routed to Colt’s Digital Service Desk.
When service is provisioned, customers are issued with a unique service reference (“Service ID”) for each circuit that they should always use when reporting network faults. The contact number for fault reporting can be found under the Support section of the On Demand portal.
Colt will repair a fault on the customer’s On Demand network within published Target Time to Repair (TTTR) parameters. If Colt fails to meet the target, it will pay compensation according to the SLA.
Raising a ticket for an On Demand service
Tickets for On Demand services are raised via the standard process - via Colt Online or phone. The process is described on our support page.
Viewing tickets in the On Demand portal
Once a ticket has been raised, it can be viewed in the On Demand portal. A summary is provided on the Dashboard page.
Detailed ticket information can be found under the connections page.
Colt Online
Colt Online an intuitive, user-friendly application and complements the On Demand portal experience.
Every Colt Online customer is provided with an administrator account for a defined user within their organisation. This administrator has full access to the available features for all their customer accounts and sub accounts, including:
* Not available in Switzerland due to data protection legislation
Service monitoring
The Colt network is proactively monitored and maintained by Colt. On Demand services are monitored, managed and maintained by Colt on an end-to-end basis.
Automated monitoring and notifications
On Demand services include an optional proactive notification service, which means that Colt proactively monitors the service and can notify customers of any service-affecting faults via e-mail or SMS. Proactive Fault Notification is a customer selectable service feature.
Note that performance reporting is not currently available for On Demand services.
Planned maintenance
When planned works are required, the customer will normally be notified in advance as per the following timeline:
10 days - Service-Affecting planned works
Typically, planned works occur after 20:00 GMT on weekdays. For emergency changes, Colt endeavours to give 72 hours’ notice; however, on some occasions, this is not viable and the work will be done in much shorter timescales with supporting justification and reason.
You will then be asked to add the demarcation details where you want the cross connect to terminate (i.e. the location of your equipment in the data centre). You will also need to upload an LOA, which grants Colt the authority to order the cross connect to your rack location.
*Note* this feature should be used where a customer wants to order a DC cross connect from Colt.
Performance objectives
Service Availability
The performance objectives of the service are included in the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Service availability is defined in full in the SLA, which is a separate document and includes details of the rebates if the targets are not met.
Fault handling
Faults can be reported via the local telephone numbers which are shown in the Support section of the On Demand portal, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The period when the service was not available will be measured from the time such condition is reported by the customer and a trouble ticket is opened by Colt to the point when Colt resolves the trouble ticket and informs the customer that the service is available. The customer shall be deemed to have been informed of service availability if Colt has unsuccessfully tried to contact the customer.
Fault handling is defined in full in the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
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