AT&T Operations Support Systems

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Switching Control Center System (SCCS)

  1. Section 14.3.2 ("Switching Control Center System, SCCS") of Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, Second Edition; R.F. Rey, Technical Editor; AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983.
     
  2. "SCC: Remote Control and Maintenance of Switching Offices", BLR 52:7 Jul/Aug 1974 pgs 206-211.
     
  3. "E-Telemetry: Inside Story of Centralized Maintenance", BLR 52:11 Dec 1974 pgs 345-350.
     
  4. "Automated Real Time and Scheduled Analysis of Switching System Output Messages", W.D. Britt and D.S. DeJager, NEC 1975 pgs 167-171.
     
  5. "Improving Electronic Switching Office Maintenance", BLR 57:4 Apr 1979 pgs 110-113.
     
  6. "Switching Control Centers: Switching System Maintenance - and More", BLR 57:6 Jun 1979 pgs 169-173.
     
  7. "Integrating Manual Operations with Mechanized Support Systems for Optimal Maintenance Operations - The Model SCC Program", D.J. Sassa, NEC 1981 pgs 362-364.
     
  8. "The No. 2 Switching Control Center System Software - An Overview of Support Features", M.E. Jones, NEC 1981 pgs 365-368.
     
  9. "Sleuthing for Troubles in ESS Networks", BLR 59:8 Oct 1981 pgs 243- 246.
     
  10. "The 3B20D Processor & DMERT Operating System: 3B20D Input/Output System", BSTJ 62:1:2 Jan 1983 pgs 255-273.
     
  11. "The 3B20D Processor & DMERT Operating System: 3B20D Craft Interface", BSTJ 62:1:2 Jan 1983 pgs 383-397.
     
  12. "Traffic Service Position System No. 1B: Switching Control Center System Interface", BSTJ 62:3:3 Mar 1983 pgs 941-957.
     
  13. "3B20D Computer: Maintenance With a Mind of Its Own", BLR 62:7 Nov 1984 pgs 16-17, 20-21.
     
  14. "5ESS Switch Maintenance: Building on the Basics", BLR 62:7 Nov 1984 pgs 18-19, 21.
     
  15. "Evolution of the No. 2 Switching Control Center System", ICC'85 pgs 1337-1341.
     
  16. "The 5ESS Switching System: Maintenance Capabilities", ATTJ 64:6:2 Jul-Aug 1985 pgs 1385-1416.
     
  17. "The 5ESS Switching System: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance Capabilities", ATTJ 64:6:2 Jul-Aug 1985 pgs 1523-1536.

Total Network Surveillance (TNS) System

  1. "The Network: How They Manage It", TE&M 94:9 May 1 1990 pgs 43-48.

Total Network Management (TNM) System

Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System (EADAS); Total

  1. Section 14.3.1 ("Total Network Data System, TNDS") of Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, Second Edition; R.F. Rey, Technical Editor; AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983.
     
  2. "EADAS Monitors Traffic for Switching Systems in Real Time", BLR 52:2 Feb 1974 pg 64.
     
  3. "Acquiring Data for Network Planning and Control", BLR 52:9 Oct 1974 pgs 279-285.
     
  4. "The Total Network Data System", M.M. Buchner Jr. and W.S. Hayward Jr., 8th International Teletraffic Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 1976.
     
  5. "Evolution of the Total Network Data System", R.F. Grantges, G.W. Riesz, and B.E. Snyder, 9th International Teletraffic Conference, Torremolinos, Spain, November 1979.
     
  6. "An Electronic Watchdog for the Network", BLR 58:8 Sep 1980 pgs 267- 273.
     
  7. "NORGEN: A Sharper Eye on Network Performance", BLR 59:5 May/Jun 1981 pgs 153-156.
     
  8. "Modernization of the Suburban ESS: Billing and Measurements Modernization", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1983 pgs 1537-1550.
     
  9. Issue of The Bell System Technical Journal on the Total Network Data System (TNDS), BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983.
     
  10. "Total Network Data System: Introduction", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2123-2125.
     
  11. "TNDS: Environment and Objectives", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2127- 2146.
     
  12. "TNDS: System Plan", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2147-2182.
     
  13. "TNDS: Theoretical and Engineering Foundations", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2183-2208.
     
  14. "TNDS: Data Acqusition and Near-Real-Time Surveillance by EADAS", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2209-2237.
     
  15. "TNDS: Equipment Systems", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2281-2344.
     
  16. "TNDS: Trunking Systems", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2345-2364.
     
  17. "TNDS: Central Office Equipment Reports for Stored Program Control Systems", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2365-2395.
     
  18. "TNDS: Small Office Network Data System", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2397-2432.
     
  19. "TNDS: Performance Measurement/Trouble Location", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2433-2458.
     
  20. "TNDS: Operating Company Perspective", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2459- 2472.
     
  21. "Harnessing Intelligent Networks", ATT 2:3 1987 pgs 14-21.

Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System/Network Management

  1. Section 14.3.1 ("Total Network Data System, TNDS") of Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, Second Edition; R.F. Rey, Technical Editor; AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983.
     
  2. "Streamlining Network Management", BLR 56:8 Sep 1978 pgs 202-208.
     
  3. "EADAS/NM - The Computer System Supporting the Area and Regional Centers", Ronnie Lee Bennett, NEC 1980, pgs 370-375.
     
  4. "Human Factors Work at Bell Laboratories", BLR 59:4 Apr 1981 pgs 106- 113.
     
  5. "Enhanced Software Helps Managers Keep Network Traffic Moving", BLR 61:4 Apr 1983 pgs 14-19.
     
  6. "Total Network Data System: Network Management", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2239-2260.
     
  7. "New Network Management Software Helps Carriers Using 5ESS Switches Keep Their Revenues Flowing", BLR 63:6 Nov 1985 pgs 29-33.
     
  8. "Harnessing Intelligent Networks", ATT 2:3 1987 pgs 14-21.

Network Operations Center System (NOCS)

  1. "UNIX Time-Sharing System: The Network Operations Center System", BSTJ 57:6:2 Jul-Aug 1978 pgs 2289-2304.
     
  2. "National and International Coordination - The Job of the Network Operations Center (NOC)", Robert Madden, NEC 1980 vol 34 pgs 376-381.
     
  3. "Keeping the NOC Informed - The Computer System that Provides the Data", Kathryn E. Griesen, NEC 1980 vol 34 pgs 382-386.
     
  4. "Total Network Data System: National Network Management", BSTJ 62:7:3 Sep 1983 pgs 2261-2280.

Network Management Operations Support System (NEMOS)

  1. (See also section on "Dynamic Routing in Telecommunications Networks".)
     
  2. "Managing a Network that Won't Sit Still", BLR 62:6 Aug 1984 pgs 23- 26.
     
  3. "Harnessing Intelligent Networks", ATT 2:3 1987 pgs 14-21.
     
  4. "Advanced Techniques for Managing Telecommunications Networks", ICM 28:10 Oct 1990 pgs 76-81.
     
  5. "Dynamic Network Evolution, with Examples from AT&T's Evolving Dynamic Network", ICM 33:7 Jul 1995 pgs 26-39.

Network Management Expert System (NEMESYS)

  1. "Complex Networks Get 'Expert' Attention", Telephony Jun 15 1987 pgs 72-80.
     
  2. "Harnessing Intelligent Networks", ATT 2:3 1987 pgs 14-21.
     
  3. "Advanced Techniques for Managing Telecommunications Networks", ICM 28:10 Oct 1990 pgs 76-81.

Automated Repair Service Bureau (ARSB); Loop Maintenance Operation System

  1. "Automation Improves Testing and Repair of Customer Loops", BLR Jan 1978 pgs 9-14.
     
  2. "Streamlining Loop Operations", BLR Jun 1978 pgs 147-154.
     
  3. "Integrating Loop Operations Systems: Two Giants Working Together", BLR Jul/Aug 1978 pgs 186-190.
     
  4. Issue of The Bell System Technical Journal on the "Automated Repair Service Bureau" (ARSB), BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982.
     
  5. "Automated Repair Service Bureau: Evolution", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982 pgs 1097-1114.
     
  6. "Automated Repair Service Bureau: System Architecture", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982 pgs 1115-1129.
     
  7. "Automated Repair Service Bureau: Data Base System", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982 pgs 1131-1151.
     
  8. "Automated Repair Service Bureau: Mechanized Loop Testing Strategies and Techniques", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982 pgs 1209-1234.
     
  9. "Automated Repair Service Bureau: Mechanized Loop Testing Design", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982 pgs 1235-1256.
     
  10. "Automated Repair Service Bureau: Second-Generation Mechanized Loop Testing System - A Distributed Microprocessor Application", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1982 pgs 1257-1274.
     
  11. "MLT-2: Advanced System for Interactive Loop Testing", BLR 62:6 Aug 1984 pgs 16-17.

Remote Memory Administration System (RMAS)

  1. "The Remote Memory Administration System Support of the ISSN", ICC'83 paper E3.3.
     
  2. "Data-Base Administration for the 5ESS Switch: Flexible, Simple", BLR Apr 1984 pgs 26-33.

Multifunction Operations System (MFOS)

  1. "The Multifunction Operations System", PTR 42:3 Sep 1984 pgs 149-169.
     
  2. "Multifunction Operations System Support for Cellular Networks", ICC'85 paper 42.2.
     
  3. "A Multifunction Operations System for New Market Applications", BLR Sep 1985 pgs 18-19.
     
  4. "Advanced 800 Service Goes International", ATT 1:1 1986 pgs 48-55 (MFOS on pg 55).
     
  5. "Harnessing Intelligent Networks", ATT 2:3 1987 pgs 14-21.

Trunks Integrated Record Keeping System (TIRKS)

  1. "TIRKS Takes the Paper Work Out of Trunk Record Keeping", BLR Oct 1975 pgs 368-375.
     
  2. "Developing Accurate Equipment Records for TIRKS", BLR 54:4 Apr 1976 pgs 97-103.
     
  3. "Controlling Circuit Orders with TIRKS", BLR 55:3 Mar 1977 pgs 73-77.
     
  4. "Tuning TIRKS Data Bases", BLR 58:4 Apr 1980 pgs 117-122.
     
  5. "Trunks Integrated Record Keeping System Operations Support for the ISSN", ICC'83 paper E3.2.

Automatic Transmission Measurement System (ATMS)

  1. "An Automatic Transmission Measuring System for Telephone Trunks", BSTJ 46:x Nov 1967 pgs 1935-1975.

Automatic Bit Access Test System (ABATS)

  1. "Digital Data System - Status and Plans", ICC'79 paper 54.1.
     
  2. "The Why, How, and What of Digital Data Transmission", DC 13:13 Nov 1984 pgs 169-180.

Remote Measurement System - Digital (RMS-D)

  1. "Circuit Testing Through Integrated Digital Access", IJSAC SAC-5:1 Jan 1987 pgs 47-52.
     
  2. "Special Services Automation", ATT 4:1 1989 pgs 44-49.

Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center (AMARC)

  1. EOBS2 pgs 453-458.
     
  2. "Toward Automated Local Billing", BLR Apr 1976 pgs 104-109.
     
  3. "Introduction of AMA to No. 3 ESS", BLR Jun 1979 pgs 174-178.
     
  4. "No. 1A AMARC: At the Center of Billing Data Collection", BLR Jul/Aug 1980 pgs 236-243.
     
  5. "Modernization of the Suburban ESS: Billing and Measurements Modernization", BSTJ Jul-Aug 1983 pgs 1537-1550.

Billing Data System (BILLDATS)

  1. "Money in the Memory Bank", BLR 62:5 May 1984 pgs 18-25.
     
  2. "Helping Switches to Account for Themselves", BLR 63:2 Mar 1985 pgs 16-22.

Miscellaneous

  1. "Operations Systems: A Perspective", ATTJ 73:4 Jul/Aug 1994 pgs 4-13.
     
  2. "The Operations Systems Evolution Laboratory", ATTJ 73:4 Jul/Aug 1994 pgs 29-34.
     
  3. "StarKeeper II NMS - Management of a Cell Relay Network", ATTJ 73:4 Jul/Aug 1994 pgs 46-55.
     
  4. "The BINOC Project: A Milestone for the Operations Systems Business of AT&T", ATTJ 73:4 Jul/Aug 1994 pgs 56-68.
     
  5. "FASTAR Platform Gives the Network a Competitive Edge", ATTJ 73:4 Jul/Aug 1994 pgs 69-81.
     
  6. "Systems Management in the 1990s", ATTJ 73:4 Jul/Aug 1994 pgs 82-96.