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Dec 4 2017 4 min read

ComoreTel — Telecom Provisioning & Routing Automation: Build Process 3

Replaced spreadsheet-driven telecom provisioning with a self-service platform that let customers manage their own numbers and routing, cutting provisioning turnaround from 24–72 hours to about 15 minutes: How the implementation kept moving without adding avoidable complexity.

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Sep 30 2017 4 min read

ComoreTel — Telecom Provisioning & Routing Automation: Build Process 2

Replaced spreadsheet-driven telecom provisioning with a self-service platform that let customers manage their own numbers and routing, cutting provisioning turnaround from 24–72 hours to about 15 minutes: The next build step, with the constraint that shaped the design.

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Jul 28 2017 4 min read

ComoreTel — Telecom Provisioning & Routing Automation: Build Process 1

Replaced spreadsheet-driven telecom provisioning with a self-service platform that let customers manage their own numbers and routing, cutting provisioning turnaround from 24–72 hours to about 15 minutes: The first implementation step and the tradeoff that made it worth shipping.

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May 24 2017 4 min read

ComoreTel — Telecom Provisioning & Routing Automation: Propose Solution

Replaced spreadsheet-driven telecom provisioning with a self-service platform that let customers manage their own numbers and routing, cutting provisioning turnaround from 24–72 hours to about 15 minutes: Why the chosen direction fit the constraint better than patching around the edges.

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Mar 21 2017 4 min read

ComoreTel — Telecom Provisioning & Routing Automation: Discovery

Replaced spreadsheet-driven telecom provisioning with a self-service platform that let customers manage their own numbers and routing, cutting provisioning turnaround from 24–72 hours to about 15 minutes: How the problem surfaced, what the evidence showed, and why the old path stopped holding up.

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Mar 15 2017 4 min read

ComoreTel — Distributed Private Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization: Lessons Learned

Moved a telecom routing operation off unreliable commodity desktop hardware onto a geographically redundant private cloud, end to end — including the procurement, logistics, and physical build: What the project proved about the system and what should carry forward into the next build.

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