Technical Support Capabilities

Element Gives 24/7 Tech Support to Cable, Internet, Broadband, Satellite and Telecommunications Companies

American Technical Support's trained technical support engineers handle your techncial support calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 


Technical problems demand speedy resolutions to keep your business running. Don’t compound the challenge with off-shore support or a help desk so mired in technology that they can’t hear your problem. American Technical Support Service Engineers are Americans who are trained in technology and communication. They know how to work with you to identify and resolve problems as quickly as possible.


Our Quality Assurance department analyzes your account needs and process requirements from generating reports to applying industry best practices for the best possible customer service.

Outsource all or part of your technical support needs to Element Customer Care.

 

CAPABILITIES

High Speed Internet Support
Tier 2 Internet Support
Tier 3 Internet Support

Voice Technical Support

Video Technical Support
••Analog
••Digital
••Pay-per-view/VOD
NOC Monitoring


SUPPORT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE:

Triple redundant commercial power

  • Onan hospital grade generator, 7 second switching time and 72 hour capacity, daily propane contract
  • Commercial Battery String- 6 hour capacity
  • UPS back-up


Co-Locations:

Equipment positioned for TAC and NOC in Billings

  • 11 staff within 5 minutes. 50 staff within 3 hours
  • Overlapping heating and air conditioning


Head Quarters Redundancy

  • Triple network connectivity into Support Centers
    • Dual Fiber connections, sub rated Gig-E, 100 Mbps each

    Wireless link, 40 Mbps


Network Capacity Upstream Tier one providers

  • Four diverse Tier one service providers, sub rated Gig-E, by multiple vendors and diverse paths


Phone Systems

  • Redundant phone servers located at commercial grade facility with gateway to offsite location on core ring


Offices built to high seismic and telco grade standards


MPLS Network

  • 1G on core riding over SONET
  • Four Tier-1 Internet Service Providers, located at 4 corners of state, all at 1G
  • Upgrade in progress:  Eastern and Western 10 Gig links


Engineering Support- Highly Qualified Team

System Administrators

  • Configuration and management of systems and servers
  • Operations configuration analysis of existing infrastructure

System Engineers
  • Design and planning of network, equipment and facilities

Installer Support Available


Engineering Certificates
  • CCNA and Adtran (Network Administrators)
  • CCNP (Network Engineering)
  • Dell certified SAN support and maintenance (System admin)
  • Dell/HP Certified Support and Maintenance (System admin)
  • Vmware Certified (System admin)

EXPERIENCE

Ticket Systems
Computer Associates
SoFront
Remedy
Resolv
Element's ETS
Other proprietary systems

Switches
Paradyne DSLAM
SMS DSLAM
HiTron
TUT
Teledex
Cisco LRE/Cosco Ethernet
HP Ethernet and fiber family
D-Link
Linksys

Internet Products
ADSL/VDSL HPNA
Dial-Up
WiFi
Ethernet
Cable/Coax
Powerline
WiFi
Trango
Colubris
Strix Systems
3Com
Motorola Canopy
Cisco
D-Link
Linksys
Buffalo
Netgear

Modem/CPE
2 Wire
Motorola Surfboard
TuT
Cisco LRE
Hitron
Elastic
Arris
Data Head-Ends
Cisco
Arris
Nomadix
Terayon
Colubris
Knovative
Big Band
Pfense
and more.

Provisioning Systems
Sigma-Systems

IBBS
Alopa
WiBoss
Aradial
Iris
Passym
CEON


Monitoring
SNMPC
Nagios
OpenNMS
Cacti
MRTG
PRTG
ETS (In-house)