How does our Network Performance Analysis Tool and the Intelligent Endpoint help you optimize your network? Watch this Vlog to find out more!
Vlog – NPAT and our Intelligent Endpoint
The Intelligent End Point – It’s not just a bullet proof radio
Let’s face it, 3D-P’s Intelligent End Points (IEPs) are as rugged as all get out. Hopefully, you will have seen them in action on YouTube as we shoot them, drop them out of planes, throw them in a lake and blow them up with a civil war canon.
Supporting the performance of your mine with Network-as-a-Service
Remote work and cost cutting can affect the performance of the wireless network you rely on for your operations. Allocated budget might be postponed, personnel count reduced, yet your operations need to perform more efficiently than ever. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) might help you address those challenges by ensuring you rely on a technology solution that provides…
5 ways to perform a site visit remotely
There is no doubt about it – it is difficult to be proactive in the management of your wireless network. Yet, it is more critical than ever to be efficient, especially with the ‘new normal’ world we are moving to While site visits might currently not be possible for many, we will review here 5…
The Cost of Supporting Your Network
3D-P works with a diverse, wide variety of clients – large to small, quarries to mines to airports, located all over the world – and during my tenure it has been very interesting to note both the differences, and commonalities between the clients and the diverse solutions we employ. For example, no matter the industry,…
Stop Guessing the Impact of the Changes Made to Your Site
Whether you are identifying and fixing coverage issues, or trying to measure the performance of your wireless network the current set of tools available to you can be expensive, lacking in functionality, or extremely time consuming. 3D-P’s Managed Services offering of Network Performance Analysis Toolkit (NPAT) as a service aims to help you understand your…
5 Cost-Effective Ways to Protect the Performance of your Wireless Network
As covered in previous blogs, the performance of a mine’s wireless network typically decreases with time. This is caused by a number of factors, but one of the most common is a lack of dedicated personnel. It’s often someone’s part-time job to ‘keep the network up and running’. Initially this may be fine, but over…
The story of how a simple mis-configuration can crash your high performing network
Through this blog, we will discuss a recent and interesting emergency call from one of our customers at a large surface mine, highlighting the importance of proactive monitoring of your wireless network and implementation of a proper process around configuration management. This customer, which is a large, well-connected and technologically advanced mine, had started noticing…
The challenges of maintaining your ‘Digital Mine’ connected
Experience has shown time and time again that – despite the best of intentions – our customers’ wireless networks are often neglected after deployment. The combination of multiple teams relying on it for access to their critical data (dispatch, maintenance, high precision GPS, operator safety, etc.) and a lack of accountability as to whom is…