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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Network Outages

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Chapter 2 - Mobile Network Outages and Degradations: As mobile network operators undertake the transition from voice-oriented to data-oriented, they are becoming increasingly vulnerable to new types of data networking outages. This is due to the growing complexity of the mobile network as it becomes increasingly IP based. Judging by the way mobile network outages are covered in the media and social media nowadays, the mobile network already seems to be more vulnerable to sudden, large-scale outages than it used to be. Smartphone users today are much more dependent on their devices than they were to their simpler phones five or ten years ago. As a result, mobile network outages and degradations create a great deal more pain and frustration today …show more content…

Pinpointing the location and specific misconfigured parameters is time consuming, and usually requires skilled, high-cost network support personnel. Because service issues span multiple technologies, such as RAN and backhaul networks, input from multiple subject matter experts is often required (8). Types of Network Outages: Most operators acknowledge some level of challenge in identifying the root cause of outages. Due to varying levels of investment and operational competence, some operators can identify most causes of incidents quite quickly, whereas others can take much longer. Physical link failures, network congestion/overloads and network failures as the most common causes of network outages by far. Some of the specific causes for outages are chip failures in network equipment, overheating due to broken air conditioning, board faults in network equipment, power outages and transmission equipment not working, bad weather can also have a big effect on the equipment on the tower. The Heavy analysis survey referenced earlier asked a number of operators what they considered were the most common cause of network

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