Title :
Peeling the Reliability Onion: Telecommunications Services Reliability
Author_Institution :
AT&T, San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract :
Increasingly, enterprise customers run applications critical to their businesses on services procured from telecommunications service providers and they are requesting high availability services. Telecommunications service providers meet these needs by providing several high resiliency service options to the enterprise customer.This paper explores the different aspects of "carrier grade" networks and services, by peeling the reliability onion, one layer at a time.
Keywords :
business communication; customer services; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication services; carrier grade networks; enterprise customer; enterprise network design; high resiliency service; telecommunications service provider; telecommunications services reliability; Availability; Business continuity; Costs; Hardware; Meeting planning; Process design; Resilience; Robustness; Telecommunication network reliability; Telecommunication services;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528315