New voicemail notification via SMS on Telecom XT

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#412419 3-Dec-2010 11:16

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freitasm: when they decided to deploy four mainframes in order to get resilience.

FOUR mainframes?

//Me blinks. We're by no means the biggest operator in NZ (yet!) but I can't see us ever requiring FOUR mainframes!

And someone couldn't see them ever requiring more than 2 RNC's ;)

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#412422 3-Dec-2010 11:20

richms:
SaltyNZ:
freitasm: when they decided to deploy four mainframes in order to get resilience.

FOUR mainframes?

//Me blinks. We're by no means the biggest operator in NZ (yet!) but I can't see us ever requiring FOUR mainframes!

And someone couldn't see them ever requiring more than 2 RNC's ;)

Heh! Our entire prepay/postpay charging system, if quadrupled in rated size, would still fit in a single rack. A tall rack, granted, but a single one nonetheless.

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#412423 3-Dec-2010 11:20

SaltyNZ:
freitasm: when they decided to deploy four mainframes in order to get resilience.

FOUR mainframes?

//Me blinks. We're by no means the biggest operator in NZ (yet!) but I can't see us ever requiring FOUR mainframes!

Those four mainframes managed all voicemail for Telecom New Zealand (fixed line and mobile), plus their entire prepay platform, and a few other services.

A fair bit of *all* calls in New Zealand were going through those four boxes. In reality it was a distributed system with calls landing on any machine and being automatically redirected to the one that "owned" a mailbox.

Database updates were replicated live across all four and failover was automatic, with reconciliation once a node came back online - all without human intervention.

As I said we had 100% uptime for years.

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#412425 3-Dec-2010 11:22

freitasm:
SaltyNZ:
freitasm: when they decided to deploy four mainframes in order to get resilience.

FOUR mainframes?

//Me blinks. We're by no means the biggest operator in NZ (yet!) but I can't see us ever requiring FOUR mainframes!

Those four mainframes managed all voicemail for Telecom New Zealand (fixed line and mobile), plus their entire prepay platform, and a few other services.

A fair bit of *all* calls in New Zealand were going through those four boxes. In reality it was a distributed system with calls landing on any machine and being automatically redirected to the one that "owned" a mailbox.

Database updates were replicated live across all four and failover was automatic, with reconciliation once a node came back online - all without human intervention.

As I said we had 100% uptime for years.

Well that makes more sense. I thought you meant that was just the voicemail...

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#412431 3-Dec-2010 11:31

Sorry but I have to say this, but the Unisys wasn't the original voicemail system as there was the Octel system that was deployed before it.

This was part of the 025 TDMA network. This is the same type of system that Telstra Clear still uses today for their PSTN voicemail.

FYI I used to support this from the UK.

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#412443 3-Dec-2010 11:57

richms: I prefer no voicemail to be honest. Most people will text if the phonecall doesnt go thru and that saves time.

Why complain when you should just turn your voicemail off?

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#413139 5-Dec-2010 20:35

Why can't the voicemail icon still be displayed? Because once you close a text it's gone from the screen.

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#413151 5-Dec-2010 20:53

Yup already raised that. Not had an answer but would really like one. Might switch back.

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#413299 6-Dec-2010 08:56

ARF1:
Sorry but I have to say this, but the Unisys wasn't the original voicemail system as there was the Octel system that was deployed before it.

This was part of the 025 TDMA network. This is the same type of system that Telstra Clear still uses today for their PSTN voicemail.

FYI I used to support this from the UK.

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What year was that ?

1980s

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#413303 6-Dec-2010 09:02

steve98: Yup already raised that. Not had an answer but would really like one. Might switch back.

I have said before. Currently it is one or the other.

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