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What does PSTN transitioning mean for busi-
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Performance and Security (FCAPS) model of
Control over change is the singular key
management, simpliied later to Fault, Assurance
to success for every telecom management
and Billing (FAB), provides the grounding for
program. Technical, operational and inan-
most of the OSS/BSS systems installed today.
cial control enables telecom professionals
One of the issues with using FCAPS and FAB is
to manage effectively and eficiently. The
genesis of control is a telecom environment
that the foundation of these management models
Nick Davis is a VIP customer was traditional, voice-centric networks based on
baseline. A baseline includes all services,
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) and
technology and vendors that comprise the
He prefers to use email
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). hey
telecom environment. A solid baseline that
were static, engineered, centrally-controlled and
has been evaluated and validated improves
And I’m his preferred agent planned networks where the protocols involved
the ability of telecom management practi-
His emails get routed to me
provided rich management information. his
tioners to identify service waste, optimize
made centralized management possible.
network services and drive unncessesary
I check his contact history Nonetheless, some have tried to introduce into
cost out of the environment.
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Respond to his question promptly example, Call Detail Records (CDRs) have been
managing the telecom environment and
used for billing of voice services, so the natural
the processes that guide worklow is also
extension of this concept is to use IP Detail
necessary. Optimizing the methods of man-
Give him the VIP treatment Records (IPDRs) for billing of IP services. xDRs
aging the telecom environment and the
are typically collected in 15-minute intervals,
structure of the organization improves ser-
Makes him happy
which are suicient for billing. his does not, in
vice delivery ability, increases operational
most cases, need to be real-time. However, xDRs
eficiency, and improves the total cost of
Which makes my job easy
are also used by other management systems and
telecom ownership.
solutions as a source of information to make
The highest level of telecom manage-
decisions.
ment success is achieved when complete
he diiculty here is that Ethernet and IP
control of the environment is gained. To
are dynamic and bursty by nature, whereas
gain complete control, focus on estab-
traditional telecom networks do not change in
lishing a telecom environment baseline,
a 15-minute interval, since they are centrally
validating the baseline, and optimizing the
controlled and engineered. Because the network
technical and operational elements of the
makes autonomous routing decisions, traic
environment to improve inancial perfor-
patterns on a given connection can change from
mance. %
one IP packet or Ethernet frame to the next.
For more visit tcolwell@aotmp.com
When you consider that Ethernet frames in a 100
Gbps network can be transmitted with as little as
6.7 nanoseconds between each frame, you begin
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to understand a signiicant distinction when
working with a packet network.
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You can keep the conversation going with Alan on Twitter
network traic for management and security.
@AlanDPercy

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