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NAS: A Customized System

NAS is an application encompassing Telefónica’s entire infrastructure in the country, providing for the administration of the telephone physical plant and the optimized allocation of the components required for supplying services.

It relates to a Client/Server application enabling plant data updating and query, allocations and services, through a centralized database. Upon a client service requirement, the system finds all the possible paths, and among these, the most technically suitable way to provide it.

Among other functionalities, NAS offers interconnection between different electrical links, the allocation of plants for providing services, and the updating of equipment and component boards, adjusting them to technological and business variations.

For the allocation of links between different hubs, the system is fitted with a path selection algorithm featuring a series of selection and optimization parameters. It allows graphical viewing of optimal paths (or else of all paths) linking two hubs, specifying additional search criteria such as speed.

In addition to solving the initial issue, Telefónica de Argentina found that NAS had other internal application functionalities. In the event that one or more network components should be affected (optical fiber cut, problems with equipment, etc.), NAS is capable of rapidly identifying all the services affected, visualize the consequences, and assess options to continue delivering the service.