ZT has been a long term advocate for creation of a community of interest relative to the support of legacy telecom products. In order to accomplish this for the last few years we have been in the IEEE Communications, Quality and Reliability (CQR) Workshop in order to continue the efforts to educate vendors in this space. Based on the great response we are starting to gain some traction.
This year’s IEEE CQR was held in Naples, Florida May 15 – 18, 2017. Here is the abstract of the Operational Panel – Science and Statistics of Better Legacy Network Reliability:
Operational Panel – Science and Statics of Better Legacy Network Reliability
Chair: Martin Guldberg, Verizon Wireless
Abstract – Mission critical services including emergency communications services are provided by wireline and mobile carrier networks containing large quantities of aging equipment. Some of this equipment has been in service 25 years, and in some instances as much as 40 years.
Time has marched on, technology has evolved, development teams have been reassigned, budgets have been reduced and spare parts are becoming very scarce. These factors combine to make service reliability very challenging with a difficult goal of keeping customer-impacting outages to an absolute minimum.
This panel will present and discuss some of the advanced scientific and statistical methods being constructively used to narrow the root causes of reliability risk and put in place cost-effective maintenance actions which improve long-term network reliability. Communications use cases will be compared with analogous improvements in military platform reliability.
Speakers include
• Mike Dazio, ZT Technology Solutions
• Mike Pohland, Lead, Physics-of-Failure Program at U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
• Mike Plumb, Precision Electronic Repair Systems
The presentations from the conference can be seen here Presentations – Videos