Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse specialised optical device and prepare for integration in the network
- Obtain relevant legislation, codes, regulations and standards and follow work health and safety (WHS) and environmental requirements for the project work
- Work safely according to relevant safety legislation and company work practices, identifying hazards and using personal protective equipment
- Obtain plans and drawings of existing optical network from appropriate person and review potential locations for suitability of integrating additional hardware
- Analyse and evaluate a range of integration options using device specifications which satisfy the customer’s network requirements
- Prepare and submit the business case for adopting recommended integration solution
- Prepare design plan with interconnection details to existing system and installation options and seek approval to proceed from customer
- Undertake an impact risk assessment of the hardware integration with the network operations centre (NOC) and prepare for contingencies using contingency plan
- Integrate specialised optical device in the network
- Document integration of the specialised optical device in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network
- Produce an updated design plan and submit to customer with copies filed for later reference according to organisation’s policies
- Prepare an evaluation report on network performance with specialised optical devices with recommendations for future enhancements
- Notify NOC of job completion and obtain sign-off from appropriate person