The importance of doing commissioning tests when provisioning a last mile link

One the most important steps predates any outage on a last mile link and that step needs to occur when it is provisioned. This is the commissioning test also known as the soak test. It is oft overlooked by fulfillment engineers in the hast to deliver the service to the client. However, the result is invariable a large amount of wasted time and effort during assurance.

Read the article by Ronald Bartels over at LinkedIn over here.