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- British Telecom Work Manager System (W.M.S)
- iNFERNO 1995
-
- The Work Manager System is used in the main by B.T engineers who may do
- many jobs in one day without having to visit the exchange much. A special
- field terminal called HUSKY is used which is basically a portable computer
- coupled with a modem. Data couplers are used which can be used in
- conjunction with a mobile phone, but I don't think they employ this on
- grounds of a crap connection. One use of the acoutic coupler, and I think
- the main one is with payphones.
-
- To use W.M.S, the B.T employee puts up Husky and from there it is all
- configured and should dump him into a terminal program.. the terminal
- program uses the modem to dial out onto W.M.S and log him onto the system.
- From here, he can pull his jobs for the day and send infomation about a job
- carried out. The infomation pulled all comes from The Customer Services &
- Systems (CSS), it acts around three basic components :-
-
- Field Terminal -> Field Access Interface System -> Work Manger-> CSS
-
- However, (unfortunatly) there is no DIRECT link to CSS and only the JOB
- infomation can be pulled. This is an overall view of the W.M.S system
- :
-
- Customer
- CSS Local Lines |
- Structured Access <- - Order and Fault Entry - -> Appointment Module
- DP Type | Auto input QUs
- Job Management
- Job Recording |
- | Job File Activity Progress
- | | |
- | | -> PrintOut -----> CSS
- | Pool of Work /
- | | /
- | Resource Roster<-->Allocation System ---> Resource managmentTeam
- l Algorithems
- \--------------> Real Time Tour Build
- | |
- | |
- Field Access interface System ---> Field Terminal Support
- |
- |
- Field Terminal
-
- The number for W.M.S is an 0800, however, i know a number for it that is
- not freephone, yet it does not respond (a standard one carridge return
- after connection should suffice) so I think it will only accept calls that
- have been rerouted (perhaps) from the 0800.
-
- Inferno `95..
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