Best Practice Detail

13-9-0504

Network Operators, Service Providers and Public Safety should consider maintaining "hot spares" (e.g., circuit packs electronically plugged in and interfacing with any element management system) as opposed to being stored in a cabinet for mission critical elements in order to facilitate asset management and increase the likelihood of having usable spares in emergency restorations.

Status: Rollover New

References/Comments: To determine appropriateness of this Best Practice, certain factors should be considered, including redundancy, single points of failures (SPOF) for critical subscribers, etc

Historical events:

• Network Operators
• Service Providers
• Public Safety
• Cable
• Internet/Data
• Satellite
• Wireless
• Wireline
• Emergency Preparedness
• Hardware
• Network Elements
• Network Operations
• Network Provisioning
• Software
• CSRIC VII: Rollover New In CSRIC VII