Measurement of field reliability metrics

摘要

A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include an access segment of a mobility network in which network aggregation devices facilitate a transfer of network traffic data received from base transceiver stations, direct probe packets to a targeted base transceiver stations and determine reachability, by way of an expected reply to each probe packet. A change from reachability to unreachability of the targeted base transceiver station or the network aggregation device is determined to be an indication of service impacted outage. Other embodiments are disclosed.