Fiber networks
Accelerate Time to Revenue with Integrated Fiber Planning and Construction
This exclusive Comsof Fiber customer webinar.
Provides an update on the work we’ve been doing to incorporate the Comsof Fiber software into IQGeo‘s Integrated Lifecycle strategy.
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Hello everyone, welcome and thank you for taking the time to join us for our webinar on how to accelerate time to revenue with integrated fiber planning and construction. I'm Kelly Barford, Digital Marketing Director at IQGeo and I will be helping with some of the logistics for today's session. The presentation will be around 30 to 45 minutes with some time at the end for questions. So please type them into the question box throughout the webinar. My colleague Crawford will be going through the questions and selecting some to ask our presenters. And we will try to get through as many as we can in the time that we have during today's live session. And if we don't get to your question, we will follow up with you afterwards. Also, we do have a few poll questions and it would be great if you could vote on those. You know, we want this to be interactive. So keep an eye out for those popping up throughout the webinar. I will now hand over to our hosts. So over to you, James and Jonas. Thanks, Kelly. So good afternoon. Good morning, everybody. My name is James Wheatley. I'm the Head of Product Management for IQGeo and I'm joined by Jonas. Jonas, you want to? Yes. Hello, everybody. My name is Jonas Westervet and I'm the Product Manager for Comsof Fiber and NRO. So today we want to give you an overview of our integrated solution and IQGeo is all around building better networks. So providing that integrated solution across the entire workflow and supporting plan, build, sell and operate for both telecoms and utilities. Although obviously we'll focus on telecoms today. And the objective here is to create better, safer and more efficient networks. So we're really about trying to save time and cost by accelerating those workflows. So it's in some ways, it's the little arrows between the different parts of the workflow and the lifecycle here where some of the challenges come from. So our objective and our aim is to be able to accelerate those workflows by providing an integrated end to end solution. So, you know, starting from that plan design through construction, sales and marketing, and then finally, obviously operating and maintaining the network that's been constructed. So if we look at what is it that enables to do that, what underpins that network lifecycle and that's IQGeo's network manager. So that's our platform effectively that gives you a single view across the entire workflows that you're trying to enable. So every user has a very tailored user interface specific to their particular task and activity, but all at the same time operating off the same data, the same platform, whether that being in the field or whether that being in the office. So it's effectively providing you a digital twin of your network. So it's being able to provide that single source of truth, single pane of glass, choose your terminology to be able to see the network, particularly all of the outside plant inventory. Being able to see that whether you are online or offline, regardless of your location, so enabling you and your teams to be able to do that work anywhere where they need to be able to to do that. It's very simple and easy to deploy. It's a very open solution. So that enable and it's got a great deal of flexibility as well. So you're able to provide a high level of configurability so you can manage what's available to you from a front end perspective, from what the data model looks like. You're able to make those changes without the need to come back to IQGeo. And usability is a key thing for us. That's something that we're very passionate about and want to ensure that we are very easy to use interfaces. There's lots of complexity in telecoms, but we strive to try and keep it as simple as possible. And for the people who are actually trying to complete their tasks and do their job. And one of our key things is, as you see from our opening slide, our exclusive focus is on networks. We don't do anything else. We only focus on networks. So that allows us to be very specific and very tailored in what we do, what we provide. So I think at that point, we've got our first poll question. So really, this is just to explore a little bit within that lifecycle. Where do you, as an operator or maybe as an engineering contractor, where do you see the biggest challenges within the network lifecycle? So hopefully you're able to complete that. And we'll take a look at the results when you've had a chance to fill things in. Just launch the poll. So I'll give people a few seconds longer to vote. I'll close the poll and reveal the results. All right. Thanks, Colin. OK, so that's that's interesting. So planning and design is is by far and away the area that provides the biggest challenge at the moment. So that's very encouraging because you've come to the right place to learn about what we can provide for for planning and design and closely followed by construction. And towards the end of the webinar, I'll focus on that area as well and provide some insights into the capabilities that we provide as we move through from the design stage into to the construction stage. I will touch on the other sections of the lifecycle as well, just to give you a very brief overview of what we provide there. But given those results, I'll say no more. I'll hand over to Jonas and you can learn a bit more about what we can provide there. All right. Thanks, James. So what we want to talk about today is, like James said, mainly planning and design. And how we can help you further with the integrated solutions. So bringing so what we've been doing is bringing the power of Comsof on the IQgeo Network Manager platform. And that's what I'll be I'll be showing today in the demos later on. But first off, I want to start by saying that all the key functionality of Comsof Fiber is now available within within that system. So the automated calculations, like, you know, are available here. So anything on the architectures that can be configured in Comsof Fiber can be used for network design calculations within IQgeo Network Manager now. You have full control over the design, like it's it is the case in Comsof Fiber. So changing clusters, changing point locations, routes and so on. That's all possible now within the platform. We still provide the same level of detail and even go one step further, as I'll explain later. So all the information on cables, ducts and connectivity information is there, as well as the bill of material. So the material can be generated automatically as well. So the key functionality, the key features and benefits of Comsof Fiber are there as well. Now, I want to talk about some of the additional benefits that are offered with the integrated solution. So by leveraging the IQgeo Network Manager platform, we can offer some extra value. First thing that is coming from setting up the workspace. So it's possible within the system to simply create a network design boundary within the map. And it will automatically populate all of the data from the system and load it into a Comsof Fiber workspace, ready to start a calculation with Comsof Fiber. So, yeah, that's that that the main benefit here is that you're no longer transferring files or preparing files to be ready for loading it into workspace. No, that that step can be can be automated. Now, if the data is available with a network manager, simply draw a boundary and it will populate the workspace. And a second point is that everything is more centralized. So the rules can be managed in a central location. And as a user, it's simple as selecting the rules, as you're seeing in the in the screenshot here. So the rules can be set up beforehand. And as a user, they just need to select the correct rules that they want to use for the design. So, again, here it's no longer needed to transfer rules. Make sure that you use the latest and greatest rule set with the updated cost. No, that's that's more managed in a central location. So you're you're sure that the rules that you're using are correct. Making it centralized also offers some benefits towards collaboration. So you have a view on the different designs that are being done. You can access a workspace of a different planner, for example, or planner of your team to inspect the design. So it makes it a lot more easier to collaborate on on workspaces on cost of fiber designs. This avoids errors being made. Like I said, with the rules files could be possible that you're not using the latest rule file or the correct rule file that's now being avoided. And it just speeds up the whole workflow and process because you're no longer sending works workspaces around to other planners if you need if you need feedback or you need to collaborate. Great. Then something about the platform. We're working within a SaaS platform. So that collaboration is there that offers another advantage that there's no longer any local installation needed on your on your desktop on your computer. Updates can also be done automatically on the cloud. So also, yeah, no extra installers whenever there's a new version of Comsa fiber that needs to be installed. That's no longer that's no longer needed. Something additional that that the platform offers is capabilities of doing field surveys. So that's fully available on mobile. There's native mobile apps that you can use and the data can be accessed in both locations seamlessly facilitating field surveys in that way. So you're avoiding swivel sharing. You're avoiding, again, that sending data from one system to the other to do the field survey, to do that collaboration. And just simply accelerating the whole workflow. Then a last point, last benefit of the integration or of mainly of network manager is you have full fiber level connectivity information, tracing capabilities within the system. And it can automatically take this information from the Comsa fiber design. So all the details that are provided within the Comsa fiber design using the rules of fiber connectivity, of cable to duct connectivity, splitter information, all of that information, which is part of our output data, automatically feeds within a network manager. And that opens up all of the capabilities of network manager as well. So, like I said, all of the tracing capabilities, making connections, taking it further within construction management, as we will see later, is also possible through this. So, like I said, by taking the design really into network manager, all the information is there to be ready to go to construction and build your built-in network. That takes us to the second poll question. So, what we'd like to just explore here is where do you feel the most benefit would be in your deployment projects from some of the items that Jonas has talked about there? I haven't launched the poll. Kelly? Maybe you want to... A few seconds to vote. Okay. Okay. Just a few more seconds. Just give people a bit longer. Okay. I'll close the poll and just share the results. Okay. Yes. Very interesting. That creation of the network connectivity, that's a clear leader there. So, that's quite interesting. We'll see that in a bit more detail later through the presentation as well. So, that's very interesting. Jonas, any other points you'd like to pull out from that feedback? Yeah. I know. Like all the other points are around the same, I think. Similar height. Yeah. I think overall there's quite a few benefits that are interesting. The automatic creation of network connectivity, indeed. That's one that's a huge time saver and opens up a lot more capabilities. So, I'll definitely go into that in the demo. And, yeah, later on when we talk about construction management, that will also be covered there. Yeah. Okay. Quite interesting. All right. Then I'm going to go into the demos. So, I'll mainly walk through typical Coms of Fiber process, but then within Network Manager. So, I start off with creating a design boundary. You're seeing in the background, you see address locations. You see streets that are available within Network Manager platform. I simply create a new design with a boundary. I give it a name. I can, yeah, set it to a certain state. So, I set it to designing. And then as a next step, what I'm doing is I'm creating a workspace for that design boundary. So, you can have multiple workspaces within a design, multiple variations of designs that are being done. I'm selecting my rules file. So, that's that rules management. So, you can have a defined set of rules that you want to use. And then as a user, you just select the rule set that's applicable to your area. So, no need to, yeah, to go and fetch the correct rule set from, yeah, maybe a central storage or something. Or ask your colleague to get the right rules file. So, what's happening now is it's, yeah, populating the workspace. So, extracting the data. As you're seeing, it's selecting that data. It's showing purple dots now on which data you're creating your design. And then the pre-processing is being done. So, creating the trenches, creating the lead-ins, all the crossing locations. So, that's being done. So, that's simple. Comes with fiber functionality to prepare an area, prepare the data for a later calculation. So, that's all running in the background. This is now done. And then you can go in and inspect what the software has created. So, you see all of the lead-ins, possible trenches, crossings, as is the case in console fiber. Then the next demo is on getting that overview of the design. So, in that first step, we created that single boundary. So, if you're working on a larger area, then you can have, yeah, you'll have multiple design boundaries. You'll have multiple people working on different areas within your larger region. So, here I'm zooming into a single area that's being designed. So, you can see the state it's in. Has it been calculated? Is there something that needs your attention? So, you can easily access that design, even if it's a different planner that has worked on it. So, it facilitates that collaboration and gives you a good view on the different designs that are, or design activities that are happening within the team. So, that's this second demo. All right. Then, regarding the rules configuration, that's also something that can completely happen within the browser. Oh, that's a bit fast. So, when you're in a design, you can inspect the rules and then edit them as well. So, you can just open the rules file, which is assigned to the workspace. It opens the rules file. The same user interface is available here as with a local installation. So, it's completely the same rules configuration that is here. All the costs that can be configured, that's all the same. So, any strategies, any updates that we do to the rules with new versions are also available immediately here. So, any type of calculation or type of design that you want to do is supported with the integrated solution. So, that's completely the same, yeah, completely the same algorithms, completely the same functionality that's available here. Then, tweaking the input and doing a calculation. Yeah, as is typically the case, there might be some changes that you want to do. Change a lead-in, for example. So, that's all possible, yeah, quite easily using the IQgeo Network Manager platform. So, you can make these changes within a workspace and use it for a calculation. Again, this is pretty similar to how it's done normally when it comes to fiber. And then, I go into a calculation. So, I use this design, this area to do a calculation. Let me just, yeah, it's acquiring the license as well. So, all of that is the same as well. And then, the calculation is being done. Let me just skip forward. This is 800 home area. Took around a minute here. So, after a calculation, what you're getting is blustering information, all the cables, all the ducts are here as well. So, if we take a look here at the left, all the distribution cables, feeder cables, clusters, drop-end distribution clusters are here. So, all of that is, yeah, all that is available. So, the styling can be changed according to your needs as well. If you want a different styling or visualize different layers of Comso Fiber workspace, that is perfectly possible. So, that's, yeah, that's as expected. So, then, changing the design is also possible. So, again, pretty similar here. I have a cluster. I'm working in the browser here, as you can see, just changing a cluster boundary. I'm locking it. I'm excluding a single drop point here from the top cluster. Just making a quick change to include it in a different cluster. So, it's being fed by a different cabinet area. And so, before a run, you see the cable is coming from the top here in the street to serve this drop point number 56. And then, skipping a bit forward in the video. So, after the calculation is being done, the area is being refreshed. So, you see the updated result from the calculation. You see that this drop point is now being served from the bottom. So, yeah, the calculation is something that's normal. The editing functionality is completely available here to change the clusters. So, you see it can be done quite easily. This can also be done in the field. So, here I have a mobile view of the design. So, this is available in the browser in the field or in mobile native apps. I'm editing a distribution point. So, I'm moving it to a different location. So, if you're doing a field survey, you have this design readily available in the field on a tablet. And you can start making these changes. So, similar as you're doing in the browser on desktop, you lock the point. You move it to a different location. And then, when you're back in the office, you can rerun the calculation and just have all of the field edits ready available in your workspace. So, it's no longer needed to go to a different application, move the files to a different application, or maybe convert the files so that they're available on a mobile application. So, you keep working on the same data within the same environment, whether you're in the office or whether you're in the field. Then, yeah, the bill of material. So, after calculation, a bill of material is generated as normal. You can open the bill of material quite easily here. You can download it in the same Excel format. So, it has completely the same format as a normal, as typical comes of fiber calculation. I'm showing you all of the details. For example, yeah, the drop boxes that are placed within the design. Total cable length for all of the feeder cables are there. So, again, the same, completely the same format as you're used to. So, that's all here. And then, the tracing functionality. So, all of the information, all of the data from comes of fiber calculation can be visualized easily in Network Manager. And you can use all of the functionality of Network Manager when it comes to the detailed connectivity. So, what I'm doing here, let me just pause that here. So, what I'm doing here is I'm selecting a home location. So, this is a wall box here where we have the fiber being terminated. And I can select that fiber and just trace it upwards. So, I can trace through the whole network and then see here on the left. We can see which cable it's going through, which splice is going through, which splitter is going through, all the way to our central office location. This is also being visualized on the map. And it's also possible to highlight from the trace on the map what that location is. The same for more schematic view of the trace. You can indicate them on the schematic and immediately see on the map which part of the network you're referring to. So, all of that detailed connectivity information is there. And that opens it up for more detailed inspection, moving it to construction and making as well changes and so forth. But we'll cover that later in the session. All right. And with that, that was everything regarding the demo. So, handing it back over to you, James. All right. Thanks very much, James. So, I just wanted to take everyone back to the overall workflow there. So, you know, Jonas has given us some insights there into the planning and design stage. And now I'm going to take us through into construction and then just touch on sales, marketing, operations and maintenance. So, from a construction point of view, our key aim here is to try to help enable predictable network rollouts. So, there's a number of capabilities that we provide there. And again, this is going back to that. My earlier point is all on the same platform. So, all of that data that we've just seen being created about the network, we're going to use that right through the process. So, there's no swivel chair in here. There's no additional import, export or anything like that. This is one sort of seamless process. But before I go on to a little bit more detail, I think we've got our final poll question is at this point. So, we just really want to understand where you fit within the construction of the network. Are you, you know, where's your, what's your role in that part of the lifecycle? I guess Kelly will launch for us. Yeah, just launching it now. Hey, people are starting to vote. I'll just give everyone a bit longer. A few more seconds and then I'll close the poll. Okay. Okay. So, that's quite interesting. So, not many people from a construction company. So, or that part of the thing. So, but very common for outsourcing one way or another, whether that be the design or the construction or both. So, and that's, you know, very consistent. We see that right across our customer base as well, where there's a high level of outsourcing to different organizations and different ways of working as well. There's quite a lot of variability in the way that those models are put together between operators and outsourced, whether that design or construction. So, that's quite interesting. Jonas, anything you wanted to add there? Not immediately here. So, I think there's this quite a need for that collaboration and follow up of the construction. So, I think you'll talk about that in the next couple of slides. Indeed, I will. So, yes. So, as Jonas said, so let's look a little bit more in depth about what we can do from a construction perspective. So, obviously, from a time in this webinar, we wanted to focus mainly on the integrated solution. So, I'll just give you a flavor with a few slides to give you an idea of the capabilities that we provide here. And the key thing here is being able to take what we created in that design from CommSoft and then be able to automatically generate the specific network construction tasks that are related to that. So, there's a finite set of things that we need to do. We need to, you know, create, build, dig, build trenches, dig trenches, or whether it may be as aerial, we need to make sure that all the poles are of sufficient standard, etc, etc. And then, obviously, once we've got that, then it's down to the conduits, the cables, installing the splices, doing the splicing, and then clearly the quality assurance step to make sure that everything is complete. So, as you can see from the screenshots there, we present two different views here. We have a map-based view, and then we have more of a tabular -based view related to those tickets. And that's tailored to the specific supervisor, perhaps, or indeed the person in the field who's trying to do the work. And the level of granularity there, we can control that as well. So, some operators choose where they outsource this to simply have a ticket for a build area because they're handing it off to a contractor and they really just want an update on that whole area. They're really not interested in the levels below that. Others want far more, you know, far more levels of detail to understand real progress in the build, the homes past, you know, on a day-to-day basis sort of thing. So, that's, you know, there's flexibility there in how you choose to handle that. And then, as I mentioned, from a field perspective, then there's a specific interface for the field teams, whether that be a crew supervisor or the actual individuals doing the construction work or splicing. So, they can complete their work, they can indicate what they've completed on the particular, on the ticket in that ticket view. And they can also make changes, red line changes, for example, to indicate where things deviated from the initial design, which is obviously often the case. Although, you know, try to, clearly a lot of processes try to minimize that deviation from the initial design by supporting surveys earlier on in the process as well. And this is what gives us that ability to track overall progress. So, as changes have been made in the field, they're being fed back and, you know, can be viewed in real time. And then those as-built changes can be posted. And that takes us into the final slide there, where Network Manager, as I said right at the very beginning, that's the platform that is underpinning all of this. And it's owning and maintaining that data that's supporting all of these systems. So, as the build finishes, we can transition that. We can complete the as-built update process within Network Manager. We can quality check the data. So, we've obviously quality checked the build in our construction phase, but we can also ensure that the data that we're going to retain about that network that we've just built is also correct, meets all of our various standards and is from a sort of from a database perspective is good and wholesome as well. And then it's available for all users for our ongoing operations. So, yeah, if we look at the next phase of the lifecycle, just very briefly here. So, we've designed it, we've constructed it, we now actually want to sell this network as well. So, we want to maximize the revenues that we can return on this investment that we've made. And particularly, obviously, from an FTTH network perspective, we've got homes passed, we'll go out and market all those. But a key revenue stream is business to business connections. So, really, in those scenarios, you want an effective way to be able to very quickly and easily understand can you offer service to a particular customer request for a small to medium sized enterprise, for example. And you want to be able to know what the cost is going to be to do that. So, you want a system that allows you to do that. You've got all of your network information available. You can then layer on top of that some capability that allows you to then very quickly check whether, yes, you can offer service and what those sorts of costs would be. And we've seen, you know, examples of customers that historically had to roll a truck to to identify whether it was going to be possible or not. And obviously, if you can eliminate truck rolls, then you're saving significant costs and obviously various benefits from other perspectives related to carbon footprints and that kind of thing. So that's from a sales and marketing perspective. And then clearly, you've built the network, you're selling services on it, you need to successfully operate it and maintain it. So really what we're looking at here is being able to provide that single pane of glass view to the teams out into the in the field so they can see all of the information about the network. It's all at their fingertips. Being able to bring data in from all the sources. So we have a number of customers who've integrated some of their operational systems so that the data from those systems is visible in the context of the network to the field engineer. So that they can have real insight into the state of the network and understand what that looks like. And in the same way that we can manage tickets from a construction perspective, we can also look at that from a, you know, from a network maintenance or outage perspective as well. So you could reuse some of that capability if so desired to do that. And that allows us to follow on with some order management and those sorts of processes as well. So that's all about increasing the efficiency of what you can do there. So just to give you a flavor of some of those capabilities and obviously we're happy to to describe them in more detail in the future. And I'll hand back to Jonas just to wrap it up. Thank you, James. Yeah, I just want to highlight some key takeaways mainly focus on the benefits of the integrated solution. So integrated solution mainly for planning and design. So I think the first first part is that, yeah, what we're offering here is a single interface for supporting that end to end workflow from planning over to design over to construction. So second main point is we want to avoid swivel sharing as much as possible when it comes to doing the design and then going to the field or sharing the design amongst planners or going from design to construction. So we want to avoid taking data from one place to the other, taking rules from one place to the other and maybe introducing errors that way. That's something that we really want to avoid with that integrated solution. And the third point is I want to make sure this is a field updates. That's one of the key benefits here that you can use the same the same interface, the same platform for design in the office and taking it into the into the field to make changes to capture things that are seen there and taking it back for an updated design run. And then the last point is capabilities of collaborating across across teams and reporting on design process progress on construction progress across teams across. Yeah, with your subcontractor as well. So that's all possible now with the integrated solution. So those are a couple of points that I wanted to highlight again at the end of this webinar. And with that, I think we still have time for some questions. Thank you. Crawford, I think I've seen a few questions coming in. So I'll hand over to you to go through those with Jonas and James. Thank you, Kelly. Yes, so James and Jonas, we have had several questions. I will pose these to both of you and let you guys decide who answers. So the first one is, is it possible to import existing offline ComSoft workspaces? Yeah, so that's a good question. That's indeed something that's that's possible. So, yeah, to go further into the into the design workflow or to yeah, if you have existing ComSoft fiber workspaces and you want to start benefiting from the integrated solution and for example, do field surveys and then go over to construction. It is possible to use those workspaces, upload them within the system and continue your work there. The format that's being used for ComSoft fiber workspace is exactly the same. Whether it's used within this system or on one of our other platforms. So yeah, that is that is a possibility. Great. Thank you. So next question is we design heavily in GIS, but we still see a need to extract the GIS data for delivery and drafting in the CAD environment. How does Network Manager handle the export of this design data? Yeah, so that's certainly something that we can do. We've done that a number of projects and there's various different ways we can do that. So we can export to shape and also export out to CAD formats as well. And we're also investigating how we can further improve that flexibility that we offer there. So that's certainly something we can do and very much agree with the spirit of the question. You know, that there's always going to be some specialist capability requires some time. Various different formats are expected from different permitting agencies, for example. And so I think that that's something that that's quite a common need and expectation. So, yes, we'll certainly be provided that we can certainly provide that. And we'll be looking at providing some more capability there as well. Great. Thanks. The next question is wondering if you can speak to integration with existing systems of record. And one of the examples given was OSP Insight. Okay. So obviously, OSP Insight sits within the IQgeo product family as well. And so that's certainly something it is possible to be able to take data from OSP Insight and or to take a design from Comstock, I should say, and populate that into OSP Insight. That's certainly something that is that is possible. And it's part of our product roadmap in the long term to look at how we bring all those three solutions together to be able to enable that capability seamlessly across the product portfolio. So the answer to that one is, yes, we can do some things right now and also kind of watch this space and we'll be making some changes from a product perspective to accommodate that as well. All right. And the next one is a little bit around the transition from design to construction. So it is, I can see high level design functionalities and especially functionalities for as built and redlining. What functionalities are available to create execution plans that construction companies need? So I think that that's probably ties back a little bit to that question around export to CAD and things like that. So that there are capabilities in Network Manager to do some of that. But if it's more advanced, then then that that can be handled by by export. However, one thing I will say is that our kind of vision and objective is to enable this digitally. So we see more of a digital workflow where the engineer is, you know, the field teams have actually got access to the data directly in the field, whether that be online, offline. One thing I didn't actually mention was that our solution, the intent is that contractors can access this as well. So this, you know, if you're the operator and you have a contract out, a contracted out workforce that they would be using the IQ geo solution themselves as well. So that's an assumption that we make and indeed our number of our customers deploy that as well. So they would have access to the design information in the field. So that's where we can make those changes there and then. So somewhat minimizing the need to actually produce a lot of the old school outputs, because that's, again, a point where, you know, back to the lifecycle and the transition between stages. That's where you can often end up with some manual handoffs, that kind of thing, results in inefficiencies. Great. Thank you. Next question is, once the design is completed, does this mean that the fiber connectivity is automatically updated or do they need to do it manually? Jonas, do you want to? So that's an automatic process. There is. Yeah, it's done automatically from the design that comes from fiber creates. So we can automatically create all of the network manager objects, all the connectivity can be created from the comes from fiber design. So there's no manual process to to copy the data or recreate the data from comes from fiber design to get to to network manager objects. So that's that's an automatic process. OK, thank you. Next question. It says, since the platform will have access to things like cable links and plant information, is it possible to create straight line diagrams within the platform? Yes. So we can produce. So Jonas showed a trace result and you can produce from the trace a straight line diagram as well. It's not maybe necessarily 100 percent straight line, but it provides all of the information that would typically be required there. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Let's see. Next one is if you connect an external GPS antenna to your field survey tablet, can these precise coordinates be used? Yes, they can. So there's support for GNSS in the in the underlying technology platform that we utilize. So, yeah, you're able to to connect that and receive the input from that device and then use that in the system. Yeah. OK, thanks. So we are getting close to about our 10 minute mark. We have just we have some more questions. If we're not able to get to yours, we do encourage you to submit some more. I'm probably going to get to two or three more and then we'll let everyone kind of move on with their day. So the first of those is our aerial designs also supported. Yeah, indeed. That's a good question. And yes, aerial designs are supported. And the demos that I did for these were underground designs, but any all information, for example, that's available within the system. If you're creating a boundary, it will export those as well and use them in a comes of fiber design. So there's support for that and also existing infrastructure. So any cables or ducts or structures that that are available with capacity information. Those could be extracted and then populated comes of our workspace and use them in the in the design as well. So yeah, the same sort of input data and rules that that that you used to with the console fiber are also supported in the integrated solution. All right. Thanks. And is there support for redlining in the mobile application? Yeah, definitely. So there's a there's a range of options that you can do from updating in the field perspective. And redlining is certainly one of those. So from a quality assurance perspective or quality control and depending, you go back to the contractors. Perhaps you don't want to give contractors the ability to to edit the data. So there's a suite of redlining tools that are available that allows you to to control the changes that are being made. And then they can be returned to the office and reviewed by someone in the office to look at those changes and make sure they adhere to the various quality controls and everything that that can be applied. So, yeah, that's certainly possible. Great. And just one more. So when someone is creating a work ticket, can you speak a little bit to the level of granularity that the user will have? Yeah, sure. And I did mention that a little bit in one of those slides. But yes, that is entirely configurable. So you can configure the level of information that you want to tie that to. So typically you tie in the work ticket to a specific asset or group of assets. So that could be, you know, an individual splice, for example, that needs to be installed and the splicing that's required, splice closure and splicing that's required within that. Or as I said, you know, that could be a high level grouping. So maybe it's all of the work for a particular street or even a particular area if that's if that's the case depends on the nature of the, you know, the sort of track level of tracking that you want to do and what's being done. So as I said, we can integrate as well. So maybe the operator is using our solution. It could be that the contractor doing the work, maybe using their own work management solution. That's that's entirely possible to their tracking at the detail level and then just pushing an update through into our system, sort of on a slightly higher level grouping of features. So, yeah, there's there's some flexibility there to adopt to the particular working patterns that exist. Yeah. Okay, great. Thank you. With that, I am going to turn it back over to Kelly and we'll give everyone a little bit of time. Thank you, Crawford. And thank you to our host, James and Jonas. And thank you to all of you for taking the time to join us today. We have recorded today's session, so I'll make sure you will get the link to view the webinar on demand and also share with any colleagues that were unable to make the live session today. Thanks, everyone. And keep an eye out for future webinar invites that we've got coming up over the next few months. Bye. Thanks, everyone. Bye. Bye.



