What You Need to Know About Network Inventory
Having a well-documented network inventory is becoming increasingly necessary for the internet provider. This is an essential measure for anyone who wants to grow and maintain competitiveness. raise funds, or carry out a merger or sale of the operation in the future.
To keep up with the evolution of internet access over the next few years, ISPs need to be able to manage network assets and capacity efficiently. Networks will increasingly grow in number of elements, and without a good inventory it will be difficult to support expansion.
Why make a network inventory?
The inventory keeps track of software, hardware and other services that make up the network. Through it, it is possible to monitor usage behavior and other factors that affect the functioning of the infrastructure as a whole. Within the operations sectors, it is necessary to maintain knowledge about applications, infrastructure, systems, servers and other items, responsible for ensuring that the network and its technologies support point-to-point deliveries. This attribute is also essential in areas such as provisioning, assisting in recording installations, configurations and tests; in fault maintenance; and in management, analysis and performance control.
There are still many providers without documentation of the infrastructure they have. This complicates a series of processes, and makes it difficult to have a good estimate of the company's value. Whoever organizes themselves better will certainly have an advantage in the acquisition and merger processes that are growing in the telecommunications market in the current period of consolidation.
But what are the other benefits of having a good network inventory?
To name a few:
- Efficient and useful device tracking
- Reliability and security of information
- Optimizing infrastructure performance
- Data sharing for other IT functions
- Maintenance of performance and planning capacity
OZmob: create network inventory in the field
Carry out customer network inventory with software how OZmap, based on tools such as OZmob, covers everything from basic to management with automation solutions and infrastructure performance analysis.
In addition, it is a complete tool that manages other network documentation services and processes.
OZmob allows you to take inventory of the network in the field. This way, it is possible to more efficiently clean up what was not documented before implementing the software.
A situation in which using the app can help the provider would be: you have the KMZ with the boxes, and an ERP with the customers, but you don't have the information about which box they are connected to.
In this case, the customers would be imported, and with the location, the technician can go to the field, see the box and ask OZmob which customers are nearby. With the response, he can identify and connect the customer through OZmob.
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