One of the greatest challenges to any advanced wireless operation is the maintenance of continuous and economical service regardless of weather conditions and power irregularities. Asentria offers a versatile monitoring and control system which is ideally suited for maintaining the uptime of WiMAX deployments.
Asentria brings the remote site environmental conditions and the often complex array of equipment within reach of the network administrator by enabling proactive monitoring, access, control and collection. Our proactive remote site monitoring solutions alert network IT personnel of problems, locate the problems, provide instructions for corrective action and automatically correct problems. These capabilities help make the difference between an inconsequential event and critical downtime.
SiteBoss™ from Asentria provides monitoring of critical cabinet equipment as well as, environmental conditions and access to control remote equipment. This includes temperature and humidity, battery and power levels, and contact closure inputs from devices and door sensors. The SiteBoss™ provides a dial-in PPP back channel for network access if your broadband connection goes down.
SiteBoss provides a robust relay system that handles mixed switching of input voltages of -48vdc, 24vdc, up to 10amps, with “normally off” or “normally on” connection points. Unlike other products, using the normally closed relay option means that even if the SiteBoss loses power, its controlled devices will still remain powered up. This prevents a single point of failure to greatly improve reliability.
Asentria Remote Site Management products prevent damage to costly equipment and prevent expensive “truck rolls” for service calls. Decreased downtime at WiMAX sites improves an operator’s service quality to their customers. This is a particular concern for operators deploying new technologies such as WiMAX or 3G for their services.
Monitor, Access, Control, Collect
Equipment and environmental monitoring and power switching, when combined with remote device access, control and data collection, enables a powerful alarm reporting and management solution which can be integrated into network management systems. Alarms can automatically trigger reboots, check equipment configuration parameters, connect users to restricted ports, collect, buffer and securely transfer data, and much more. IT personnel can easily check how changes in device setup or reboots affect alarm conditions. By combining all of these capabilities into a single, unified platform, network management is simplified, consolidated, more reliable, and more cost-effective.
Monitor
Asentria remote site monitoring products receive input from various equipment and devices, then evaluates and forwards the device status to IT personnel. Whether evaluating temperature sensors or contact closures, or reading variable voltage levels of batteries, Asentria products can also receive automatic messages over serial ports when an event occurs, and sends an alarm on the event. For more granular monitoring, using a script allows you to interrogate devices, such as going through a menu in order to gather detailed device information. This can be done over a phone or wireless modem or network to provide alarm notices on monitored devices.
Asentria’s proactive remote site monitoring solutions alert IT personnel of problems, locate the problems, route alarm information directly to the people who need it, and automatically correct problems. These capabilities help make the difference between an inconsequential event and critical downtime. Monitoring equipment via serial ports, contact closures, analog voltage sensors and SNMP Traps, the SiteBoss™ continuously monitors remote sites for failing equipment and environmental conditions, proactively notifying IT personnel via email, pager, TCP Alert and/or SNMP Trap.
Access
The need to re-provision equipment to restore communications especially at remote locations is often difficult and costly to service. When it comes to remote access, traditional network management systems often fall short because they only work in-band, or over the main connection. If that connection goes down, that site goes down, and no alarms and management data will be collected or reported. NMS also lacks the control and automation capabilities to correct problems without manual intervention. A support technician must still be dispatched to solve the problem, which can take hours or even days, depending upon the location and availability of the technicians. Traditional in-band software solutions are limited due to their dependence upon the underlying network being up and available in order to function. By contrast, existing out-of-band technologies, such as terminal and console servers, provide local access via serial connectivity to networked devices. However, they lack robust management capabilities, such as automated maintenance and recovery.
