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 […]
Legacy Alarms and Solutions for a Simpler Migration
As telecommunications networks evolve, the equipment inside of cell site shelters evolves as well and in many cases, the existing equipment that handles the environmental alarming for the site becomes obsolete. Historically, alarms have been monitored through the transport equipment that also handles the CDMA or 4G LTE networks in a cell site, but as […]
Mobile Network Failures – Some Causes to Think About
Technology is moving on fast forward these days as communication services are connecting more users to smart devices. Leading telecom companies around the globe are focusing on the future by building out a 5G network to increase bandwidth for faster speeds, while many worldwide telecom users face frustration with poor or non-existent mobile network coverage. […]
Telcos are Joining the Green Revolution
Climate change is one of the most significant issues of our times and a real threat to our global security. If we look specifically at the carbon footprint of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector alone, it is currently making up around 1.5% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A paper published in the […]
Telecom Site Automation – Managing Networks of Site Automation Devices
How do you manage a network of SiteBoss appliances once deployed in the field? The SiteBoss appliances are devices used within a telecom network operator’s network of edge communications sites. These intelligent devices normalize data from a variety of power, security, and environmental sub-systems located in these sites — a more detailed description of this […]
The ROI on Telecom Site Automation Solutions
Many operators ask us about the return on investment (ROI) for implementing telecom site automation (TSA) solutions. On occasion, Asentria has created ROI calculations for specific operators based on their estimates of costs on truck rolls, network downtime, fuel theft, and more. TSA solution savings comes from two main categories: network resilience and network efficiency. […]