Support Center

 

Network Operations Center

Overview


Picture of a Server in the NOC.Focused on wireless technology services, our NOC staff is highly specialized and is complemented by a full team of senior engineers and field installation teams for advanced troubleshooting 24/7. We are a fully functional NOC facility, located in Central Pennsylvania, with all of the features you would expect in a professional NOC.


  • Centralized NAS/SAN
  • Dual Environmental Systems
  • Redundant servers and switching environment
  • Generator backup
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  • Secondary Hot Site
  • Flood protected
  • BGP Internet on Fiber
  • Cisco Core
  • Dedicated VPN Appliance and Poller on each client network


Contact a BIG Service Coordinator at service@4service.net for support with your custom solution.
  • Support Center Solutions
 
 
  •  


  • NOC Quick Links
   
   
  •  
 

NOC and Monitoring Reports

 

The BIG NOC is one of the only wireless specialized NOCs in the United States with a both a wireless specialized technical troubleshooting staff and the reporting tools geared towards maintaining the health of a wireless network. Traditional network device reporting such as switches, routers and servers are combined with the proactive monitoring of wireless devices to give our clients the piece-of-mind their wireless networks are performing to optimum standards.

  • Availability – All Devices
  • CPU Utilization (servers and other CPU bases devices)
  • Average Throughput
  • Disk Utilization
  • Point-to-Point Wireless Connections
    • BER Rates
    • Environmental Variables
    • Link Utilization
    • RSL, SNR and Modulation
    • Utilization
  • Multipoint Wireless Devices
    • Retransmission rates
    • CRC errors
    • Subscriber SNR
    • Dropped Frames
    • Total Frames
    • Modulation
    • Utilization
  • WiFi Mesh and Indoor
    • Controller Port Utilization
    • AP Utilization
    • AP Ethernet Utilization (when available)
    • Rouge AP Detection
    • Mesh Link Statistics
top | next
Picture of BIG Wireless Online NOC Monitoring Web Site
 

Automated Trouble Alerts

 

Picture of BIG Wireless Online Network Thresholds Web SiteThe core of the BIG NOC Advantage is our ability to evaluate our client’s networks and set system threshold alerts to notify the NOC of a possible issue on the network well before a major system failure occurs. We have found almost 80% of all major wireless network outages can be forecasted. The NOC evaluates the network and sets baselines for operating parameters that are critical indicators of network health and trends these indicators over time.

top | prev | next
 

Nationwide Emergency Maintenance and Dispatch Service

 

The BIG NOC team utilizes our nationwide field service staff to perform service affecting repairs across the United States. Our contracts are customizable to our client’s needs and desired onsite response times. The onsite repair response times are 2-to-6 hours for most Tier 1, 2 and 3 cities with 4-8 hour response in most other service areas. The field service teams provide all services from indoor wireless network repair to repairs requiring tower climbing.

  • Labor only emergency service
  • Labor and equipment service
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Guaranteed spare inventory options
  • Local and centralized sparing
  • In-house RMA testing and process
  • Large Project Dedicated In-Market Service
top | prev | next
2008 Estimated Response Time Codes
2008 Estimated Response Time Codes for the United States
 

In-House Indoor and Outdoor Testing Lab

 

BIG maintains a fully functional indoor and outdoor testing lab for staging, burn-in, RMA validation and application testing. This specialized service allows our technicians to simulate client problems, test new equipment and applications and guarantees critical equipment will be functional when it is deployed.

  • Back to Back Microwave Radio Testing
  • BER, T1, DS3, OC3 testing
  • Ethernet load testing
  • Alvarion, Cisco, Motorola, Ceragon, Stratex and Nera Microwave testing
  • Cisco LWAP Controller Onsite
  • Tropos, Cisco and Motorola Mesh Lab
  • Video and Voip Over Wireless Lab
  • ONSSI and Cisco Broadware DVS Lab
  • Spectrum Analyzers
  • Transmission Line Sweepers
  • DC Power Plant
top | prev