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Global Decommissioning Services For Service Providers

To meet an increasing and continual demand for enhanced capacity, service providers’ networks must continually evolve. This environment of constant change often requires decom-missioning of existing equipment and sites that can no longer scale to the new demand. Service providers need to identify assets thassets that no longer serve the purpose, and carefully manage the decommissioning process to avoid negative impacts on their network and nances.

The Challenge: Replaced Assets Can Be a Valuable but Wasted Resource

As service providers continue to grow and update their networks, upgraded routes and equipment often displace existing sites and infinfrastructure. Network operators are faced with complex questions regarding what to do with replaced assets:

What is the value, and is it worth the hassle to reclaim?

How do I update and repurpose the existing inventory, manage the logistics and maintain security?

How does this relate to our “green” initiatives?

Dealing with these issues can be a distraction for service providers, who need dedicated teams to efficieefficiently close out and discontinue the services and sites that are no longer required. Consequently, they often go overlooked for long periods of time, costing the business greatly in the interim.

ARRIS Solution: Decommissioning Services Team

Because the service provider’s network is constantly in ux, the process for handling these reclaimed assets and space is critical. To keep employees focused on higher level, core business tasks, manycompanies have turned to the ARRIS Decommissioning Services Team to help decommission unused

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• Improved Focus – By allowing employees to focus on core business growth

• Reduced Cost – Through efficient equip- ment redeployment, resale or salvage

• Reclaimed Space – By freeing real estate for productive use

• Accurate Accounting – With detailed records of assets retained or removed

• Green – Through the removal of unnecessary items from the waste stream

BENEFITS FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS

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equipment and perform cable wreck-out, inventory and transport, as well as to upgrade, test, repackage, and warehouse the equipment for redeployment or resale. This can help service providers consolidate and reclaim oor space, freeing up valuable real estate for productive use. Outsourcing this process can be benecial to enterprises, cable operators, telephone companies, Internet service providers, or any company with data centers and network infrastructure to maintain.

The ARRIS team is comprised of seasoned project managers, eld technicians and supply/logistics personnel who handle the personnel who handle the retrot and restocking of equipment that has been removed from the network. This team also conducts testing and inventory management, with an extensive network of remarketing partners for logistics and recycling. With ARRIS’s warehousing and supply chain expertise, companies are able to re-use and re-distribute retested and/or upgraded versions of the equipment that have been cycled through the technical teams.

Project managers follow a structured process that includes the development of requirements, creation of project plans, understanding and enforcing the customer’s qualication criteria, instructing and and coordinating remediation work, documentation and nal handoff to the equipment install teams. To date, ARRIS has decommissioned more than 600,000 devices from a variety of companies.

The decommissioning teams perform the following responsibilities:

Plan, schedule, track, and report.

Decommission, inventory, intelligent packaging and transport of unused network elements. Wreck-out and disposal (or recycling) of unused cables.

Test, rework and upgrade salvaged network elements; stage for redeployment.

Inventory and asset-manage equipment.

Warehouse, label and transport salvaged equipment worldwide to customer sites for redeployment, resale or salvage.

Detailed documentation of facility or inventory as needed.

The Opportunity: Signicant Cost Savings

By keeping internal resources focused on core business tasks and leaving the decommissioning to the experts, some service providers have uncovered millions of dollars in equipment value eachmomonth by redeploying, reselling or salvaging unused capital (see Figure 1). In employing this

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practice, they have also freed up signicant amounts of oor space for productive expansion, thereby increasing network capacity while avoiding new real estate investment and recognizing signicant cost-savings.

For more information on how the ARRIS Professional Services team can help you, visit: http://www.arris.com/services or contact your account manager or channel partner.

DECOMMISSIONED EQUIPMENT VALUETOTAL 2015 INCOMING VALUE: $90 MILLION

Scrapped Value,$15,000,000, 17%

Repurposed Value,$75,000,000, 83%

Figure 1: Example of Annual Decommissioned and Repurposed Equipment Value