EADAS is an acronym for Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System created at
Bell Laboratories
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in Columbus, Ohio and used in the Bell System during the 1970s. EADAS was an
Operations Support System
Operations support systems (OSS), operational support systems in British usage, or Operation System (OpS) in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers to manage their networks (e.g., tele ...
(OSS) developed for the
AT&T
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long distance and local Bell System telephone networks. The EADAS system collected network traffic usage data, generated periodic management reports, provided network management code controls and routing controls, and provided automated trouble analysis support for network support staff.
EADAS was developed by a collaborative effort between Wisconsin Bell, a major "trial site", and Bell Laboratories in both Holmdel, New Jersey and Columbus, Ohio.
This OSS was deployed on
DEC PDP-11
The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers originally sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of a ...
computer systems throughout the
Bell System
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the AT&T Corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America fo ...
network of
central offices. See the ''
Bell System Technical Journal
The ''Bell Labs Technical Journal'' was the in-house scientific journal for scientists of Bell Labs, published yearly by the IEEE society.
The journal was originally established as ''The Bell System Technical Journal'' (BSTJ) in New York by the Am ...
'' published during the mid-1970s for more details.
References
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Network management
Telecommunications systems