shadow of my mind
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Everyone is doing such a great job on these phone numbers and pings.
I asked my son last night about how these towers work. His explantion was think of yourself driving along and each tower is a big tree. Your phone call is a monkey (ping) that swings from one tree to another. If one tree has to many monkeys coming to it the tree directs the monkey to the next closest tree becasue the monkeys arms are only so long. There is a group of people that are referred to as NOCS [I think this is Network Operations Center] who watch how many monkeys are trying to land in each tree and if they see that the tree is getting crowded and monkeys are falling (droped calls) they direct the monkeys to the best tree that they can reach (to far away and you get poor voice quality and garbled soud) untill traffic in that tree returns to a reasonable level or if there is something not working right and needs to be fixed they refer that type of problem to the repair department that would handle it.
The only way to determine if towers were overloaded or down and traffic was sent to another tower is to get the data reports that these NOCS use. We can't do that but I would assume LE can. Then they could see if any towers had traffice rerouted and at what times and what tower was used.
I asked my son last night about how these towers work. His explantion was think of yourself driving along and each tower is a big tree. Your phone call is a monkey (ping) that swings from one tree to another. If one tree has to many monkeys coming to it the tree directs the monkey to the next closest tree becasue the monkeys arms are only so long. There is a group of people that are referred to as NOCS [I think this is Network Operations Center] who watch how many monkeys are trying to land in each tree and if they see that the tree is getting crowded and monkeys are falling (droped calls) they direct the monkeys to the best tree that they can reach (to far away and you get poor voice quality and garbled soud) untill traffic in that tree returns to a reasonable level or if there is something not working right and needs to be fixed they refer that type of problem to the repair department that would handle it.
The only way to determine if towers were overloaded or down and traffic was sent to another tower is to get the data reports that these NOCS use. We can't do that but I would assume LE can. Then they could see if any towers had traffice rerouted and at what times and what tower was used.