As part of RCS's managed services offering, clients experience the following benefits:
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A single-point-of-contact for system issues
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System monitoring, threshold setting, and alerting
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Remote troubleshooting and hardware replacement coordination
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Circuit issue resolution
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Remote break-fix support and troubleshooting
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Critical system patching
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Move, Add, Change, Delete (MACD) support
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Onsite remote system configuration back-ups
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Change management
Network
Operations Center (NOC)
RCS's Network Operations Center (NOC) uses a 3-tier support model and is staffed by highly trained tier 1, 2, and 3 engineers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The
Contact Center is resilient, secure, and supported by carrier-grade software
and hardware solutions. From our NOC, RCS performs day-to-day monitoring
and management activities to identify and resolve incidents, perform root
cause analysis on problems, and execute standard changes for the devices
and applications.
Governance
RCS take several approaches to governing and managing our workflow, our
contracts, and our personnel, all of which are deeply integrated. As a
managed services provider, the core of our business is to manage and resolve
issues (trouble tickets or TTs) and service requests (service tickets
or STs).
We
use a proprietary, secure, web-based ticketing and workflow management
application called HRS or Help Request System that is developed and maintained
by our internal development team. HRS is uniquely designed to support
and govern the workflow that comprises our business.
A
trouble ticket or service ticket can be opened by either RCS or the client.
The Tier 1 engineering support team handles the initial response and initial
attempt to resolve the ticket. If they are unable to do so, then the ticket
is escalated to the Tier 2 engineering support team. These engineers are primarily focused on handling issues escalated by tier 1 engineers, as well as proactive analysis of reports and data. Tier 3 engineers, similarly, handle issues escalated from Tier 2 engineers, and are capable of performing the most complex of the proactive analysis and reviews.
The
Client Services Manager who oversees day-to-day operations is continually
assessing the progress of work being performed on all open tickets by
both the Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams, continually prioritizing and re-prioritizing
tickets, and scheduling and re-scheduling Tier 2 engineers accordingly
and appropriately. HRS has some important functionality to assist the
Client Services Manager and the engineering support teams in managing
the workflow.