Assessing Telecom Site Automation with Asentria
Mobile network operators are currently expanding and upgrading their networks to 5G technology to provide widespread coverage, especially in densely populated cities. The demand for mobile data is rising, making network reliability and resilience of these networks key priorities. Recent pandemic and natural disasters have highlighted the importance of keeping cell sites operational, as emergency […]
How We View the Future of Telecom Site Automation (IOT, Automation, Big Data)
In today’s post, I’m going to talk about how we view the future usage of data generated by a modern telecom site automation solution in a modern telecom network. By future, I mean possible now, but only currently being done by a smaller set of future looking telecom operators. Before I can talk about future […]
Capturing and Using Aggregated Site Equipment Data from Telecom Sites for Informed Decisions
Managing telecom networks, both wireless and wireline, involves monitoring and interpreting a lot of data from thousands of sites and dozens of data points at each of those sites. Network managers need to know the status of their sites at all times. Especially in the case when abnormal conditions occur, like a power outage or […]
Solve Telecom Monitoring Challenges with a Dedicated Team
In my last several posts, I discussed how the SiteBoss units we’ve designed and manufactured at Asentria for years are more of a toolset than an out-of-the-box solution. Comparing telecom site automation to what people think of more generically as an IoT solution reveals some other differences. From experience rolling out across many remote telecom sites in […]
The Telecom Site Automation Toolset
In my last blog post, (My Boss Told Me to Go Find an IoT Solution Management for Cell Tower Sites), I talked about one recurring theme related to telecom site automation. There are vast differences between different telecom networks and even within a single telecom network. Suppose we were to use power as an example. […]
Legacy Alarming: Expanding Telecom Sites to Save Time and Money
Although the use of smart IP or serial devices in telecom sites is on the rise, legacy alarms, such as contact closures or analog inputs, are still widely used in most sites. In many cases, these legacy alarms are gathered by old or obsolete equipment. There are significant costs to change out the older alarm […]
My Boss Told Me to Go Find an IoT Solution Management for Cell Tower Sites
I have recently heard someone say that their boss tasked them to find an IoT (Internet of Things) solution to manage multiple cell tower site locations. It didn’t seem like the focus was on what the IoT solution would do, but it was important that it was IoT. It seemed that they thought that what […]
Tackling the challenge of data collection from disparate cell sites
How Asentria are laying the foundations for analytics, machine learning and AI in the tower industry In this interview TowerXchange and Jon Baars covers the following topics: Challenges around collecting data from cell sites with highly variable equipment How Asentria is cost optimising high spec technologies for emerging markets Ways to make RMS easier to […]
What is a SiteBoss and How Does it Work?
Introduction Several years ago, I was involved in the start-up of a fixed-wireless Internet service provider company. During the initial years of the start-up, the biggest capital expenditures (CAPEX)s were the infrastructure components (e.g., towers, networking gear, radios, antennas, leases, construction costs, etc.). However, after a few years of expanding the network’s footprint, the CAPEX […]
Scripting: Introduction to Adding Automation to Telecom Sites
Introduction Scripting for the SiteBoss is a very powerful way to add features into the unit that are specific for a particular situation. It is being used more and more to add that one more thing that is needed to make a Siteboss just the right solution for a particular problem. Because scripting is so […]