This particular customer is a Telecommunications Carrier out of North America who runs a lot of wireless and fibre and are rapidly expanding.
The Head of Network Operations was on the call, and for the purposes of keeping the identity private, let’s call him Joe.
Joe talked about the snowstorms and how it impacts their network and field services team. The way it works is that the NOC team gets an alert, does some diagnosis and decides what process needs to occur. To send field service staff means that the problem is something that cannot be remotely fixed. Sending the team out in bad weather to work on wireless equipment is hard on the people who do the work, but at the end of the day, to quote Joe, “we pride ourselves on great customer service.”
Before this customer had opEvents installed, they would have a high rate of field service calls that would result in no fault found during snowstorms. This means that the field services team were not being sent to fix real field related problems. For any company with a field services team, you know how important it is to send these guys to real problems.
The impact for the customer was that to clear all the events would take days, with over 50% being false reports.
During recent snowstorms, opEvents would handle the alert and find the source problem. The NOC team then could send the field services team out in the snow to investigate and fix the problems. Joe said that the level of accuracy in the alerts was fantastic and the NOC and Field Services Team rebuilt their trust and had confidence that they were being sent to a real fault.
When Joe studied the impact that the Opmantek Platform brought to the table, opEvents reduced event storms to zero, deduplication was no longer a problem and only pushed real events to the team. Field service calls were reduced and the network was brought back to normal in half the time.
“We had a lot of competitors’ customers switch to us during the snowstorms. The amount of downtime we suffered was minimal as we were right on top of any faults, we knew where they were and their severity and deployed our field services team accurately. It puts us ahead of the market.”
Recent advances in Operational Process Automation at Opmantek means that our MSP customers can deliver exceptional value to their clients; exceeding their SLAs whilst becoming incredibly sticky.
Opmantek has long believed that Operational Process Automation is one of the foundational pillars for a successful network management strategy. A key piece to this is ensuring that actions are undertaken in a consistent manner each time, with no variation from what is outlined as the standard protocol.
Through the use of “context sensitive event actions”, you may now replicate troubleshooting actions and escalation procedures, dynamically.
Here’s the event log for the entire network. Our event management system automatically parses incidents on your client’s networks into Events.
Once a specific event has been identified “Context Sensitive Actions” are displayed against the event either automatically or by guiding your NOC team through the steps to remediate.
The system automatically creates a ticket in the system, pings the affected nodes and Troubleshoots (TS) the Cisco Interface. Once those actions conclude, the results are displayed on the event itself! The operator may now take further action or simply close out the Ticket.
All of this can happen without the NOC or your client knowing there was ever an issue. Save time, save money and increase your clients’ satisfaction. If you’re interested in taking advantage of these incredible capabilities, please fill in the form below;
Fortunately, for us, just like many businesses, it afforded the team time to think about what they are doing, where they are heading, and what is and isn’t working for them. Just like us, many businesses revaluated their direction and operation. Out of that exploration came improvements to their processes and ways to reduce waste. Everyone got a bit smarter.
During 2020, we had a higher engagement than we expected from organisations that saw the importance of their networks and infrastructure. With more people relying on the business’s digital side to get work done and with IT staff working from home, network management became a primary focus for CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs. Heads of IT for all verticals had to ensure that their applications and supporting infrastructure were robust and no surprises. They had to now more than ever support their customers and provide the same level of support to their staff.
Network Management and Network Management improvements were no longer on the back burner. They are now front and centre.
More and more people were reaching out to us and talking to our teams around the world. Some of the largest organisations joined our family. They chose us as they trusted our team and software to deliver outstanding visibility of their networks and infrastructure, flexibility to fit their business process and great value. Organisations such as NextLink Internet out of Texas signed a 10-year agreement with us. NASA is using us for their next moon mission, Artemis. Only three members of Opmantek were born – yes, they were babies at the time – when Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. Now we all get to do a little bit to get the first Woman and next Man on the Moon, a great honour for all of us.
We are proud that we have built great software that our customers recognise as the best. However, what makes us all pleased is that our customers believe in our team.
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This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.
“SDWAN ha aumentado su uso en múltiples plataformas de infraestructura, como lo son (IaaS), Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud y Oracle”. La mayoría de los proveedores de SD-WAN aprovechan el punto de acceso local más cercano que permite a los usuarios conectarse a internet con su proveedor de servicios contratado(ISP), esto ayuda a que se pueda transferir mas rápido la información al punto de presencia mas cercano reduciendo significativamente la latencia, lo cual es de suma importancia para negocios como, tiendas de autoservicio, farmacéuticas, restaurantes, agencias automotrices, entre otras.
Ya que SDWAN esta comenzando a utilizarse de manera gradual, es importante que los proveedores de servicios de internet puedan monitorear lo que pasa dentro de dichas nubes, por lo que deben evaluar la capacidad que tienen para integrarse sin problemas con gestores/administradores de TI líderes en el mercado, incluida la conectividad desde el gestor hacia el CPE, para observar el desempeño de la sucursal, APIs personalizables, optimización del rendimiento, mapas georreferenciados y visibilidad de eventos de extremo a extremo, es aquí donde Opmantek ayuda a potenciar dichas características para el monitoreo de los CPEs de clientes, así mismo hace posible el monitoreo de los dispositivos que viven en la nube, inclusive si no tienen conectividad a través de ICMP. ¿Esta usted interesado en este tema?, de ser así no dude en contactarnos en latam@opmantek.com, en donde tenemos una solución hecha a la medida de sus necesidades.
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