Readiness support: Lumen^® Vyvx^® handbook

Broadcast Services overview

Business Solutions

Broadcast Fiber Services

Local Access Services

Managed Services

Vyvx Internet Access

Satellite and Teleport Services

Venue and Event Services

Internet Broadcast Encoding and CDN

Managed Video/Audio Format and Standards Conversion

You can access knowledgeable resources for support across every step of service setup and delivery.

Account director (AD)

Your account director provides information about Lumen services and serves as your overall point of contact. Your AD is responsible for gathering and confirming the specifications and requirements necessary to submit an order for full-time services or to make occasional reservations. Your account director works with you to execute all quotes and orders for new and additional dedicated CenturyLink services, and assists you through the credit application process.

Sales engineer (SE)

Your sales engineer works with you to identify technical options and define requirements for your services. The SE is responsible for understanding your existing network, key locations and potential needs. This source for technical information works to help tailor network solutions to meet your specific needs, and manages the engineering portion of your service quote as well as the inventory and capacity process for your orders.

Vyvx project manager

Your Vyvx project manager acts as a point of contact for full-time video service orders, including MVNS orders, by managing any interactions from order through billing to support the highest levels of customer satisfaction. The project manager proactively manages your service needs and serves as the conduit and escalation point for issues related to your full-time service—including order entry, order validation, service activation, test and turn-up, disconnects and billing activities.

Video services coordinator

Your video services coordinator helps you make occasional video service bookings (also known as “occasional reservations”). The video service coordinator is available around the clock to assist you with coordinating broadcast television transmission services utilizing the Vyvx fiber, satellite, and teleport network and vendor facilities. They also collaborate with broadcast operations service management team members and third-party providers to ensure seamless delivery of your video services.

Video provisioner

Your video provisioner submits orders for local access circuits with local exchange carriers on your behalf. Video Provisioning should be informed of any local access circuits ordered by you so testing can be coordinated with the local exchange carrier (LEC) and the Vyvx Technical Operations Center.

Broadcast technician

Your broadcast technician works to ensure reservations are activated and working properly on the Vyvx network. Broadcast technicians also work as needed with third-party providers to establish cross connections on your behalf. As owners of the broadcast operations service management process, they are your first point of contact if an issue is present with your service. Broadcast technicians are prepared to troubleshoot and resolve issues if they arise—anytime, night or day.

Broadcast engineer for on-site events

The broadcast engineer sets up and monitors HD encoding services at remote sites for customer events. Broadcast engineers are prepared to troubleshoot and resolve problems with HD encoding services. They also perform on-site setup and monitoring of Vyvx multi-customer special events.

Key service identifiers

You may need the key service identifiers listed below to manage your services. Please contact your account director or a video services coordinator with any questions.

Full-time service

Full-time order types

Various order types may be used during your Lumen experience:

• new service orders—required for the installation of a new full-time service on our network.
• service order change or reconfiguration—a change to your full-time service after it has been installed.
• service transfer order—moves a full-time service from one account to another; used, for example, when a company acquires another company and needs to transfer an order under an existing or new billing account.
• renewal—continues your full-time service when your existing MSA expires.
• disconnect—termination of an active full-time service.

Occasional use service

Fiber Video Service from sites with existing connectivity

Fiber Video Service from sites without existing connectivity

Satellite Service (Satellite Service only)

Teleport Service (Teleport Service only)

Video Local Access

Vyvx-ordered local access

Video provisioning intervals

Customer-ordered local access

The following booking policies are applicable for Vyvx Solutions owned and operated fiber and teleport facilities and leased satellite services. Booking policies for third-party provided services are subject to the individual vendor’s policies.

Approximate-out

All other services: reservations with duration under 15 minutes may schedule a 5-minute approximate-out. Reservations 15 minutes and greater and less than 60 minutes may schedule up to a 15-minute approximate-out. Reservations 60 minutes or greater may schedule up to a 30-minute approximate-out. Approximate-out times are available on a right-of-first-refusal basis and can be challenged. Failure to goodnight an approximate-out will result in full charges for the approximate-out time regardless of actual usage. Approximate-out cannot be added to a reservation after the reservation start time.

Booking increments

• Broadcast Fiber services: 5-minute minimum, 1-minute increments
  
  
• Satellite & Teleport: 15-minute minimum, 15-minute increments.

Cancellations

• Broadcast Fiber and Teleport services: reservations canceled 60 minutes or greater prior to the scheduled start time may be canceled without penalty. Cancellation charges are applied 100 percent when a confirmed reservation is canceled within 59 minutes of scheduled start time.
  
  
• Satellite services: reservation charges are applied 100 percent when a confirmed reservation is canceled within 30 days of reservation start time.
  
  
• All other services: individual case basis.

Challenges

All services: customers holding inquiry reservations or approximate-out are allowed 24 hours or 24 hours prior to scheduled start time, whichever is less, to either release or confirm their order when challenged. Failure to respond after a challenge has been initiated will result in an automatic forfeiture of the inquired time. Reservations confirmed through a challenge cannot be rescheduled or cancelled without incurring a 100 percent cancellation charge.

Extensions

All services: if an extension is made on a reservation with an approximate-out, the approximate-out will be firmed, then the extension will apply. Approximate-out and extension are subject to charges separately.

Goodnights

All services: failure to goodnight an approximate-out service will result in full charges for the approximate-out time regardless of actual usage. Approximate-out times must be goodnighted with the Vyvx team.

Inquiries

• Broadcast Fiber and Teleport services: inquiry reservations are accepted as a right-of-first refusal. Inquiry reservations are held until 24 hours prior to start time, unless challenged. In some cases, inquiries can be held closer to the actual event if requested by the customer. Inquiries can be suspended at any time at the sole discretion of the Vyvx team.
  
  
• Satellite services: inquiries are automatically dropped 72 hours prior to reservation start time unless confirmed by the customer.

Rescheduling*

• Broadcast Fiber and Teleport services: reservations rescheduled 60 minutes or greater prior to the original start time may be rescheduled without penalty. Reservations that are rescheduled and then canceled or rescheduled within 59 minutes of original start time are subject to a penalty fee of 100 percent, in addition to the booking fee for the rescheduled event. Reservations cannot be rescheduled within 15 minutes of the scheduled start time without a cancellation.
  
  
• Satellite services: individual case basis

Modifications*

• Broadcast Fiber and Teleport services: reservations modified 60 minutes or greater prior to the original start time may be modified without penalty. Reservations that are modified and then canceled or modified within 59 minutes of original start time are subject to a penalty fee of 100 percent. Reservations cannot be modified within 15 minutes of the scheduled start time without a cancellation.
  
  
• Satellite services: individual case basis

*Rescheduling start and end date/time of reservations.

PGADs

Fiber services: customers requesting a PGAD from a third party must contact the owner of the Host Reservation for permission to receive a drop of the transmission. The owner of the host reservation will authorize the PGAD and issue the confirmation number of the reservation. The customer requesting the PGAD will use the confirmation number as the authorization and the PGAD will be accepted. At the request of the owner of the host reservation, the transmission may be extended beyond the scheduled end time or approximate end time. In such case, where the PGAD is scheduled to end at the same time as the host reservation, the PGAD will also be extended to match the overage of the host reservation and appropriate charges will be applied.

Test time

All services: when available, test time will be provided prior to a scheduled service. However, test time is not guaranteed. If setup time is essential to a service, it should be incorporated into the purchased service.

Vyvx Customer Service escalations

Vyvx Customer Service is divided into two groups:
 

• Video Services—coordinators are always available to assist you with making and managing your reservations.
  
  
• Video Provisioning—always available to assist you with ordering local access circuits.

Video Services

If your reservation is scheduled to start in the future (start date and time are in the future) you should call Video Services with any questions or to make changes to your reservation. You have the option to escalate, to any level in the Vyvx Video Services organization at any time.

Vyvx Provisioning

Video Provisioning can assist you by ordering local access circuits on your behalf or by helping you order the local access. You can escalate to any level in the Vyvx Video Provisioning organization at any time.

Vyvx Operations escalations

Once your reservation is in session (start date and time is in the past), call Vyvx Operations to investigate any issues if they arise. You can escalate to any level at any time.

Vyvx Teleport escalations

For both reservation and service impairments/trouble tickets, see the contact numbers below.

Media portal

Local Interconnectivity Directory

• view, download and analyze your invoices
• learn how to read your invoice
• pay online via ACH or credit card (one-time or recurring payment options available)
• go green by turning off your paper invoice
• generate summary and detailed reports based on your billing data
• initiate, update and track billing requests

Billing cycles and delivery

Your Lumen Vyvx invoice is created and delivered monthly. There are several format and delivery options for your invoice:

• Paper format—mailed via postal service
• Paperless (electronic) format—available using Media portal
• Paperless (electronic) format—available by email

You can opt for paperless delivery of your invoice using Media portal by making the election in the Invoice Management tool (under the Billing tab). If you cannot access the portal and would like to go paperless via email, please contact us directly:

Methods of payment

Payments on invoices are due in accordance with your master service agreement (MSA). Lumen Vyvx accepts the following forms of payment:

• ACH via the portal (please configure this on the Setup tab of the Invoice Management section)
• EFT (requires authorization form—please contact us directly at the above numbers)
• Credit card using the portal (some conditions may apply)
  
• Check sent by postal service

• making an online payment
  
• printing a remit slip for an offline payment
  
• storing a payment source
  
• setting up automatic (recurring) payments
  
• viewing online payments

Questions about your invoice

Please submit all billing inquiries or disputes using Media portal. This can be done by creating a new billing request under the Billing tab of the portal. You can initiate, track, update, and cancel any requests, communicate with your billing analyst via the notes feature, and see a comprehensive set of comments on all of your requests. For further details, please review the Billing Request section of the Media portal help.

Non-payment

Your payments are due upon receipt of your invoice and are considered past due the first day of the following month or according to the terms of your master service agreement (MSA). If you fail to make a payment when your invoice is due, your service is subject to interruption. If your services have been interrupted, it could take up to 24 hours for service to be reinstated.

Early termination

If your services are being disconnected prior to the end of your service term, early termination charges may apply. For services nearing the agreed-upon termination date, a disconnect request must be received 30 calendar days prior to the contract termination date. Otherwise, your service may continue to be provided by Lumen on a month-to-month basis, or as otherwise set forth in your master service agreement (MSA). If the date is the same as your service term end date, no terminations will apply. If you are considering early termination, please contact your account team to explore your options.

Disconnect requests