May 2023 · Caznet Pty Ltd ABN 47 143 897 303 · Supplementary to the Master Services Agreement · Commercial in Confidence
Contents
1 — Introduction
1.1This Service Level Agreement ("SLA") applies to services supplied by Caznet Pty Ltd to you in accordance with our Master Services Agreement.
1.2This agreement is supplementary to the Master Services Agreement ("MSA"). Where terms conflict, the MSA takes precedence over this agreement.
1.3We may vary this SLA if reasonably required for technical, operational and commercial reasons.
1.4This SLA is suspended for any period where there remains an overdue unpaid balance on any invoice you owe us or at any other time when we would be entitled to exercise our rights to suspend, limit or terminate the services in accordance with any agreements we have entered into with you.
1.5Some services are subject to the Service Level Agreements of other suppliers or carriers.
1.6We reserve the right to interpret the meaning of this SLA and the cause of any incidents at our discretion.
2 — Client Contact & Support
2.1The Caznet support team is the primary point of contact for the initiation and management of all technical related requests. Service management requests and incidents must be communicated to us by email to support@caznet.com.au. Emails should clearly specify the nature of the request or incident, the contact details of the person making the request or incident report and its perceived priority.
2.2You must report all perceived Priority 1 and Priority 2 requests or incidents by telephone call to an appropriate Caznet team member using their direct contact mobile telephone number or, where available, our office by calling +61 08 8470 8900 to ensure prompt attention and support.
2.3Requests and incident reports must be initiated by a person who has been authorised by you to act on your behalf with us in advance.
3 — Client Responsibilities
3.1Prior to reporting an incident to us, you must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the incident is not a problem with any of your equipment or within your administrative domain.
3.2If your service relies on Caznet supplied equipment at your premises, you must ensure that the equipment is receiving the required power and cooling to be operational.
3.3To enable our prompt and effective support, it is vital that you provide us with correct and detailed information related to your service when reporting an incident. As a minimum, you should provide us with the following:
- Your customer details.
- Name and contact details of the person making the report.
- Name and contact details of a person onsite.
- Detailed description of the incident including impact.
- Detailed description of any error messages, warnings or status lights/indicators.
- Details of any diagnostics or actions that you have performed.
- Log files, traceroutes, and other diagnostic information available to you.
- Details of any recent changes that have been made by you including approximate timeframes.
4 — Incident Management
4.1An incident is:
- Any issue or problem which affects the normal operation, use, security, reliability, or functionality of a service.
- When you require our support (e.g. helpdesk to address a problem or fault).
4.2We will endeavour to respond to incidents within the response times detailed in this SLA.
4.3We do not guarantee that an incident will be resolved within any specific time frame. However, we will use all reasonable endeavours and resources at our disposal to resolve an incident within the times specified in this SLA.
4.4When you report an incident to us, we will:
- Agree with you on the priority level (1, 2, 3 or 4) to be assigned to the incident.
- Manage any necessary escalations and resources, remotely or onsite, to resolve the incident.
- Update you with progress on incident resolution via phone or email at mutually agreed intervals.
- Advise you when the incident has been resolved by phone or email.
4.5Incidents assigned a Priority 1 or Priority 2 status will be immediately escalated to our Level 2 team.
5 — Service Management Request
5.1A service management request is:
- Any changes to a service requested by you (e.g. change in resource allocation, user onboarding/offboarding, call flow).
- Configuration or installation of new hardware, software, systems, or services.
- Routine maintenance tasks carried out by us on your systems or services on your behalf.
- Any task we believe we need to undertake on your services.
- Any other technical request you make of us which is not classified as an incident.
5.2We will endeavour to respond to service management requests within the response times detailed in this SLA.
5.3We do not guarantee that a service management request will be completed within any specific time frame. However, we will use all reasonable endeavours and resources at our disposal to complete a service management request within the times specified in this SLA.
5.4Where practicable you must plan and communicate your needs as early as possible ensuring service management requests are raised with sufficient lead time to allow us to complete the required tasks without undue urgency.
5.5When you raise a service management request with us, we will:
- Agree with you on the priority level (5, 6 or 7) to be assigned to the request.
- Manage any necessary escalations and resources, remotely or onsite, to complete the request.
- Update you with progress on the request via phone or email as required and mutually agreed.
- Advise you when the request has been completed if required.
5.6When we raise a service management request on your behalf, we will:
- Assign a priority level (5, 6 or 7) to the request.
- Manage any necessary escalations and resources, remotely or onsite, to complete the request.
- Advise you when the request has been completed if required.
6 — Priority Levels
6.1 — Incidents
| Priority Level | Description |
|---|---|
| Priority 1 | Severe business impact or immediate risk — critical business services are not operational, or the services are at immediate and significant risk of a security or reliability problem. |
| Priority 2 | High business impact or risk — non-critical business services are not operational, or the service is degraded, or there is a risk to the service's security and reliability. |
| Priority 3 | Minor service degradation or specific service functionality is unavailable. |
| Priority 4 | Minor service issue. |
6.2 — Service Management Requests
| Priority Level | Description |
|---|---|
| Priority 5 | Service request is required to ensure continual operation of the business. |
| Priority 6 | Service request has minimal impact to continual operation of the business. |
| Priority 7 | Service request that is non urgent and is not required for the continual operation of the business. |
7 — Escalation
7.1If your expectations have not been met, you believe the progress on an incident or service management request is unsatisfactory, or the request has not been resolved within the agreed timeframe, you may escalate your request to:
- Level 2 — Systems Engineering
escalations.L2@caznet.com.au · +61 08 8470 8909 - Level 3 — Accounts Management & Business Operations
escalations.L3@caznet.com.au · +61 08 8470 8906 - Level 4 — Managing Director
escalations.L4@caznet.com.au · +61 08 8470 8905
7.2You must provide our team with sufficient time and assistance to complete your request or resolve your incident before escalating it to another level. You should ensure to clearly communicate any urgency or concern with meeting expectations to the team promptly.
8 — Post Incident Reports
8.1We will provide post incident reports for Priority 1 incidents at our sole discretion. We will endeavour to provide the report within 10 business days of incident resolution including:
- Details of the incident including the impact to services.
- Timeline of events and activities.
- Fix or work around.
- The root cause.
- Mitigation Strategies.
8.2We will not include information in a post incident report that we consider to be commercially sensitive.
9 — Unprotected Services
9.1An unprotected service is:
- A network service delivered to you using a single access device provided by us; or
- A data centre co-location service where only a single power supply is provided to you; or
- Any service delivered on equipment we provide that you connect to a single power supply; or
- A private cloud or hosting service provisioned in a single fault domain unless otherwise agreed in writing; or
- Voice and Business Phone System services.
10 — Scheduled Maintenance
10.1It is necessary from time to time for us to perform scheduled maintenance on our systems and infrastructure. We will use all reasonable endeavours to limit the frequency and impact of scheduled maintenance to you.
10.2Where practicable we will provide you with notice via email prior to the scheduled maintenance (except for third-party maintenance):
| Type | Expected Impact | Notice Period |
|---|---|---|
| Hazard | Your services may be impacted if the work does not go as planned. | — |
| Service Impacting | Your services will remain operational although impacted in some way. | 5 Business Days |
| Outage | Your services will be unavailable for a period. | 10 Business Days |
| Emergency | Your services may be impacted but works must be undertaken at short notice. | As soon as practicable |
11 — Uptime Percentage
11.1The uptime percentage ("service availability") of each service is calculated:
- By subtracting from 100% the percentage of minutes during the month which a service was considered not functional.
- Separately to all other services covered by a Service Level Agreement.
- Over a period of one calendar month.
- After the completion of the calendar month being measured and once the service has been restored.
- By us, based on our monitoring and data, at our discretion.
11.2An incident or period of downtime for the purposes of calculating the uptime percentage begins when you have notified us of the incident, and we have acknowledged your notification.
11.3Scheduled, third-party and emergency maintenance are excluded from the uptime percentage calculation.
11.4Faults resulting directly or indirectly from acts, omissions, negligence, or failures beyond our control including (without limitation) interference, negligence, wilful damage and third-party faults or failures are excluded from the uptime percentage calculation.
12 — Rebates
12.1If we fail to meet the uptime percentage targets, incident & service management response targets, or incident restoration targets listed in the tables below, you may be entitled to a rebate where:
- You make a claim for the rebate within 5 business days of the end of the month in which the incident was resolved or the availability/response time target was not met.
- You have made a written request containing reasonable detail as required by us by email to accounts@caznet.com.au.
12.2The maximum rebate or compensation available to you for any one claim or incident will not exceed 20% of the regular monthly fees payable by you to us for the service in question.
12.3Each product & service type has different targets for different priority requests as defined below.
12.4If no target response or restoration time is listed, then none applies.
12.5If no rebate percentage is listed for a specific target, then none applies.
12.6If a service or product type is not listed, then no targets or rebates apply.
12.7Any rebate or compensation we agree to pay will be credited to your account with us for use against future invoices.
12.8You are not entitled to a rebate as a result of any of the following:
- Failing to meet the service availability target for an unprotected service.
- Scheduled or emergency maintenance.
- Faults in customer equipment or an incident on your side of the service delivery point.
- Interference with our equipment or systems by you or a third party.
- Any failure to immediately report an incident to us.
- The improper use of a service by you.
- Modifications made to the service or related systems by you or a third party.
- Failure to provide us with correct and detailed information about the incident or service management request.
13 — Targets
Voice & Business Phone Systems
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | — | 24×7×365 | > 99.5% | — |
| Incident Restoration | P1 | 24×7×365 | 1 Hour | — |
| Incident Response | P1 | 24×7×365 | 15 mins | — |
| P2 | Business Hours | 30 mins | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 6 hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 2 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 8 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
Private Cloud & Infrastructure as a Service
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | — | 24×7×365 | ≥ 99.9% | — |
| < 99.9% – ≥ 99.7% | 5% | |||
| < 99.7% – ≥ 99.5% | 10% | |||
| < 99.5% | 20% | |||
| Incident Restoration | P1/P2 | 24×7×365 | 1 Hour | — |
| Incident Response | P1 | 24×7×365 | 15 mins | — |
| P2 | 24×7×365 | 30 mins | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 6 Hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 2 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 8 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
NBN Business Internet (Standard SLA)
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | — | 24×7×365 | ≥ 99.5% | — |
| Incident Restoration | — | Business Hours | 36 Hours | — |
| Incident Response | P1 | Business Hours | 60 mins | — |
| P2 | Business Hours | 4 Hours | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 24 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 4 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
Business Internet — Fibre & Enterprise Internet
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | — | 24×7×365 | ≥ 99.9% | — |
| < 99.9% – ≥ 99.7% | 5% | |||
| < 99.7% – ≥ 99.5% | 10% | |||
| < 99.5% | 20% | |||
| Incident Restoration | P1/P2 | 24×7×365 | 4 Hours | — |
| Incident Response | P1 | 24×7×365 | 15 mins | — |
| P2 | 24×7×365 | 30 mins | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 6 Hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 2 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 8 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
Data Centre Co-Location
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | — | 24×7×365 | ≥ 99.95% | — |
| < 99.95% – ≥ 99.7% | 5% | |||
| < 99.7% – ≥ 99.5% | 10% | |||
| < 99.5% | 20% | |||
| Incident Restoration | P1/P2 | 24×7×365 | 1 Hour | — |
| Incident Response | P1 | 24×7×365 | 15 mins | — |
| P2 | 24×7×365 | 30 mins | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 6 Hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 2 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 8 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
Managed Wide Area Network
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | — | 24×7×365 | ≥ 99.9% | — |
| < 99.9% – ≥ 99.7% | 5% | |||
| < 99.7% – ≥ 99.5% | 10% | |||
| < 99.5% | 20% | |||
| Incident Restoration | P1/P2 | 24×7×365 | 4 Hours | — |
| Incident Response | P1 | 24×7×365 | 15 mins | — |
| P2 | 24×7×365 | 30 mins | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 6 Hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 2 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 8 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
ICT Managed Services
| Category | Priority | Period | Target | Rebate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incident Response | P1 | 24×7×365 | 15 mins | — |
| P2 | 24×7×365 | 30 mins | — | |
| P3 | Business Hours | 6 Hours | — | |
| P4 | Business Hours | 12 Hours | — | |
| Service Management Request Response | P5 | Business Hours | 2 Hours | — |
| P6 | Business Hours | 8 Hours | — | |
| P7 | Business Hours | 72 Hours | — |
Caznet Pty Ltd · ABN 47 143 897 303 · Level 1, 172 Morphett Street, Adelaide SA 5000 · GPO Box 2409, Adelaide SA 5001
Service Level Agreement — May 2023 · Commercial in Confidence · caznet.com.au/about/legal/sla
Service Level Agreement — May 2023 · Commercial in Confidence · caznet.com.au/about/legal/sla