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Table of Contents:
Definition and Overview
1. Introduction
2. Network Repair Process
3. Why Voice over IP?
4. Test-System Elements
5. Emerging Network Support Issues for Delivering Fast Internet Access
6. New Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) Requirements
7. Internet Consumer Customer Care (ICCC) Testing
8. Expanded Test System Architecture
9. The Future
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1. The LECs' offering of IPbased services over the copper-access network has enabled them to cut their customer support staff virtually in half.
a. true
b. false
2. Access-network testing allows LECs to troubleshoot the myriad problems that will undoubtedly occur in this newly diversified market.
a. true
b. false
3. Since the introduction of line-test systems, POTSrelated faults in the copper-access network have been handled by highly trained repair specialists at a test desk.
a. true
b. false
4. Analysis-layer actions are dynamically sequenced in response to guided interactions between the subscriber and the call center.
a. true
b. false
5. The access layer is controlled by and reports to a remote access layer.
a. true
b. false
6. There are four main stages in the ANrepair process ____________.
a. customer places call, customer service forwards call to appropriate department, repair, and final testing
b. reception, analysis, dispatch, and repair
c. dispatch, repair, final check, and customer notification
d. repair call placed, repair dispatched, testing from CO, and final modifications
7. Dispatch accuracy refers to a test system's ability to assign a problem to one of three segments of the access network ____________.
a. central office, network, or station
b. customer line, connections, or station
c. customer line, network, or connections
d. central office, customer connections, or network
8. Typically, line-test systems consist of the following ___________.
a. test-system controllers, random measurement units (RMUs), and a voice-testing system (VTS)
b. test-system controllers only
c. test-system controllers and remote measurement units (RMUs)
d. test-system controllers, remote measurement units (RMUs), and voice-response system (VRS)
9. Some of the consequences of not having the resources to support ICCC in high volumes include the following _____________.
a. increased costs
b. longer cycle time to reduce problems
c. lower-quality customer service
d. customer churn
e. all of the above
10. Examples of reasoning paradigms include the following _______________.
a. neutral-based reasoners
b. limit-based reasoners
c. case-based reasoners
d. all of the above
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