Network reliability: the cornerstone of the telecommunications business

Author

Ripa, Carl V.

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Oct 1994

Firstpage

367

Abstract

The reliability of the public switched network (PSN) is an important national interest. Government telecommunications users maintain a keen interest in this area since a high percentage of federal traffic transits the PSN. Further, a reliable, secure, service-rich, high performance PSN is extremely important to our national economic performance since telecommunications is at the very heart of business performance and productivity. Fulfilling this challenge and meeting customer service expectations does not occur by chance but is the result of carefully planned service initiatives and effective operations support tools. These attributes will also be extremely important to ensuring the integrity of the evolving national information infrastructure (NII)

Keywords

switching networks; telecommunication network reliability; wide area networks; business performance; customer service expectations; federal traffic; government telecommunications users; national economic performance; national information infrastructure; network integrity; network reliability; operations support tools; outages; productivity; public switched network; security; telecommunications business; Business communication; Costs; Councils; Customer service; Government; Maintenance; National security; Robustness; Telecommunication network reliability; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1994. MILCOM '94. Conference Record, 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Monmouth, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1828-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1994.474016

Filename

474016