Custom Application Suite

In the mid-1990s, I worked as a consultant for Bell Canada on several occasions. I also participated in the conceptual development of a network testing and management system (NTMS). While NTMS never got beyond a non-functioning prototype stage, I did end up building a client-server test suite that automated telecommunication circuit testing. To the best of my knowledge, the software is still in use as of he mid-2020s. This suite was capable of communicating with Alcatel 1631, Lucent DACS II and DACS IV, and Nortel DNX-100 digital cross-connect switching systems. While it lacked a fancy graphical user interface, it did allow interactive and scripted control of test circuits and concurrent testing by several users. The application was written in C++ and ran on Linux or HP-UX platforms.

The graphical NTMS prototype that is pictured here was written in Microsoft Visual C++ and ran on Windows NT (both Intel and MIPS platforms).