Federal Communications Commission
Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments

Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments (ACTA) is a private corporation established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC's mission is to develop, disseminate and aid in the adoption of technical criteria for telecommunications equipment. USmax was engaged by ACTA to engineer a hosting platform that would fulfill the business requirements of the corporation. As part of this effort, USmax undertook a project to build-out its own network operations center to accommodate a dedicated hosting platform for ACTA servers. The effort revolved around assessing requirements, design and validation testing, implementation, training and maintenance.

USmax undertook a basic but effective approach to the implementation starting with the development of a project plan that outlined salient milestones and determined appropriate downtime and cutover timeframes. Following planning, implementation took the form of building redundant servers and placing these behind a supplementary firewall. The firewall was configured with security, intrusion detection, and security event analysis capabilities. Applications were integrated to the servers and data restored.

Following successful User Acceptance Testing, USmax performed a final transfer of live data for final cutover. Standard Operating Procedures were drawn up to support efforts such as tape backup verification and rotation and virus updates. Follow-up activity has consisted of training and maintenance of regular services on the platform.

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