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01/28/2005, 07:14 PM
#204
 Originally Posted by MisterEd
Once ENS is available will it not look for a tower that isn't as busy (to reduce network loading) as well as one that is stronger (if neither are busy). At any one time BOTH might not be possible, but in an ideal condition wouldn't that be how it works? Everything I have read had said that. Maybe I misunderstood. What else would "ENS will reduce network loading" mean other then looking for a tower that isn't "overloaded" (busy). OK .. maybe the PHONE wouldn't look for the less busy tower, maybe the TOWER would lock out the phone if it was busy. I'll go along with that.
Are you saying ENS is not available now? I thought it was. Either way, that does not change what we are trying to figure out here.
It seems everyone thinks ENS is to modify network loading in real time. There is no real point in that as far as I am concerned. I don't think it can be done anyway, nor should you want to (you didn't have it in analog, you didn't have it on TDMA and you shouldn't need it on GSM either). Also when I say network loading I mean between the orange and blue networks, not between sites on a single network. The single network issue is something that needs to be delt with through properly adding hardware and transport to your network (like radios and T1's). My understanding is ENS is to help out with loading traffic between the orange and blue networks until they can be combined over the next year or year and a half. Currently, as many hear are aware, both Blue and Orange sides of the network are adding customers to their networks. Also as others on these forums have stated, you can have an Orange 64K SIM but still be on the Blue network as the prefered network. The reason for thisis Cingular has doubled it's sales force, increasing sales dramaticly, and the Orange networks could not hope to keep up with that many new customer adds - also why waste the investment they made in the hardware they purchased when they bought ATTWS? So they load some percentage of all new adds onto the Orange network and the other remaining percentage of new adds to the Blue network (I thought it was at activation, I have also heard people say it is all orange at activation and the network preference settings are later changed at night via an over the air signal). As the Orange network (or Blue for that matter, which ever wil remain in the end) increases it's capacity more traffic will be loaded to that network until at some point all traffic will be added to that network. I suppose there could be cases when there is a need to shift customer's network preferences around, but I should think it would not be very often. I am thinking in a case like something big is happening like the network hardware is unable to keep up with demand, and customers need to be moved to the lesser loaded network to reduce the problem. The networks are made and designed to handle huge volumes of traffic, as such I can see no reason to be shifting people around dynamicly.
Hopefully I have not missed to much in my attempt to explain my take on ENS. Let me know.
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