Vodafone builds up in Eindhoven, a large phone number that several smaller power plants superfluous. In time, the provider is in the Netherlands on three power plants that are each other’s backup should form, so failure is less impact.
Vodafone calls the central itself SuperSwitch and will be under permanent video surveillance bets to ensure security. At this moment, Vodafone has twelve plants, but the provider wants to go back to three plants, the other tasks can take over. By the whole network is redundant to establish the impact of faults in the future are minimal.
The reason for the construction of large power plants is the fire in a central in 2012, causing many users for days, could not make calls, sms and mobile internet. After the fire started the provider an improvement programme to reduce the impact of failures to a minimum. In that FastForward program refreshes the provider also his entire network with new equipment. Vodafone claims that the central will fully run on wind energy.
After the fire, there are also agreements made between providers at long-term interference call – and sms-traffic of each other’s customers. That is mainly a service for business.
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