Circuits were operational within 12 hours of verbal notification and only incurred a total of 15 minutes outage during the war. Activated ten Low Speed Time Division Multiplexers. Site personnel assisted installers in order to meet the activation schedule. Activated DPAS and cutover 34 T-1 trunks with no loss of traffic. Implemented automated administrative software as well as a LAN between the FCO and Staff.
Personnel are much more efficient and effective.
Installed new orderwire equipment providing connectivity to 20 more facilities. Removed ten analog patch bays after DPAS was cutover. Additional space is now used for a more effective status display area. Developed 25 new training modules for digital equipment and test equipment for a total of 115 training plans covering 95 percent of this facilities resources. Fourteen personnel were facility qualified this period for a total of 22 out of 29 assigned which is exceptional after a year of high turnovers.