The purpose of the Implement, Configure & Activate Service processes is to implement, configure and activate the specific services allocated against an issued service order. <br/>These processes are responsible for, but not limited to:<br/>•Assessing and planning the approach to be undertaken for implementation, configuration and activation;<br/>•Re-using standard implementation, configuration and activation processes applicable to specific services;<br/>•Implementing, configuring and reconfiguring specific services, including customer premises equipment if part of the service provider offering.<br/>•Providing notifications as required if the implementation, configuration and activation activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific service alarm event notifications<br/>•Updating the information contained in the service inventory as to the configuration of specific services and their status.<br/>At the successful conclusion of these activities, the status of the specific services will be changed from allocated to activated, which means they are in-use.<br/>