ATIS Releases Standard for Outage Reporting Process - ATIS 0100012.2007
December 16, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) released ATIS 0100012.2007 - Standard Outage Classification, which identifies a high-level outage reporting process to help reduce discrepancies in outage reporting.
Standard Outage Classification is designed to eliminate conflicting terminologies that telecommunication vendors and service providers use to classify and report outages, which can also differ from the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) multiple classification systems, said ATIS.
In accordance with the Standard Outage Classification, telecommunication companies can use common terminology and reporting structures to collect and report data used for identifying causes of outages, said ATIS.
The high-level system for classification introduced in the standard uses three categories to define the outage:
- Cause of outage failure such as hardware, software, cable, wireless transmission or capacity.
- Reason for outage, which includes a primary and secondary descriptive basis.
- Responsibility for outage like acts of nature, reporting service provider, government or vendor.
The category values are designed to be broad in nature making the classification system applicable to any type of network and facilitating sorting and statistical analysis of outage causes, said ATIS.
The ATIS Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) monitors and analyzes network reliability issues and regulatory matters.
Source: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).