Title :
No. 1 EAX Maintainability
Author_Institution :
GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories, Northlake, IL, USA
fDate :
12/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The importance and objectives of maintainability to a telephone switching system are reviewed. Design approaches involving system structure, components, application software, and maintenance software are discussed. The basic elements of the system´s maintainability: malfunction detection, retry, unit isolation, system recovery, fault localization, repair, and preventative maintenance are described. The layout of the repair manual is also presented.
Keywords :
Telephone switching systems; Application software; Communication switching; Costs; Fault detection; Hardware; Preventive maintenance; Software maintenance; Switches; Switching systems; System recovery;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOM.1973.1091608
