David Mongeau

University of California, Berkeley | UCB · Berkeley Institute for Data Science

A collection of slides from the authors' conference presentation is given. The following topics are covered: transitory operations costs; delta operations costs; depreciable expenses; migration costs; and consumable capital expenses.

Migrating to next-generation networks (NGNs) presents challenges that are quite distinct from those to designing and deploying the networks. The challenges are distinguished first and foremost by touching subscribers and second by being highly resource-intensive. The first attribute drives a need for precise, reliable migration planning, so that th...

To provide network services successfully, telecommunications companies must work with many operations policies, network configurations, and types of equipment. The demand for advanced network services that can help service providers minimize their capital investment and reduce their operating expenses has outpaced the supply of the reliable, high-q...

Network operators and service providers need to maximize the use of their available capital investment by managing inventory and configuration information in a more cost effective manner. The first task that they face might seem the simplest: collecting data about the physical assets in a network. However, the dynamic nature of today's heterogeneou...

Management of Service intelligent™ networks must embrace not just monitoring of performance and reliability, but also intelligent maintenance so Lucent Technologies and its customers can respond quickly to network outages and other challenges. Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) has achieved impressive gains in the speed at which it responds to custome...

Business planning is a process of deciding what an organization will do to be successful, and how it will do it. Business planning can benefit any organization that wants to control its future and to succeed. However, a literature review and some practical experience at AT&T Bell Laboratories suggests that technical documentation organizations have...