• DocumentCode
    1234840
  • Title

    No. 1 EAX Maintainability

  • Author

    Keehn, P.J.

  • Author_Institution
    GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories, Northlake, IL, USA
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1973
  • fDate
    12/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1381
  • Lastpage
    1384
  • Abstract
    The importance and objectives of maintainability to a telephone switching system are reviewed. Design approaches involving system structure, components, application software, and maintenance software are discussed. The basic elements of the system´s maintainability: malfunction detection, retry, unit isolation, system recovery, fault localization, repair, and preventative maintenance are described. The layout of the repair manual is also presented.
  • Keywords
    Telephone switching systems; Application software; Communication switching; Costs; Fault detection; Hardware; Preventive maintenance; Software maintenance; Switches; Switching systems; System recovery;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1973.1091608
  • Filename
    1091608