Title :
Preemptive detection of failure in telephone networks
Author :
Silver, Bernard ; Moghe, Mohan ; Eichen, Elliot ; Doleac, John ; Bhatnagar, Rajiv ; Qian, Zhaogang ; Wan, Hansel ; Brooks, David
Author_Institution :
GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA, USA
Abstract :
We describe TCAF, an expert system that performs 24-hour monitoring and surveillance of the customer access facilities (CAF) in GTE´s telephone network. TCAF is able to identify a large variety of problems, ranging from a fault in a customer´s phone to a cut in a large cable. The system is currently being deployed, and initial results show it to be 3-10 times more accurate, and more automated, than the methodologies currently employed by local exchange carriers
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; expert systems; surveillance; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network reliability; telephone networks; GTE; TCAF; cable cut; customer access facilities; expert system; local exchange carriers; monitoring; network management; preemptive failure detection; surveillance; telephone networks; Circuit faults; Communication cables; Copper; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Intelligent networks; Network-on-a-chip; Power cables; Surveillance; Switches; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1995. GLOBECOM '95., IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2509-5
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1995.502725
