Transitioning seamlessly from fiber network design.

Hello everyone and thank you for joining us for today's Fiber Broadband Association webinar. Today's webinar is Bridging the Gap from Fiber Design to Construction and it is brought to us by IQGeo today. I'm David Norris, webinar producer here at FBA. Before we begin, I have a couple of quick housekeeping items. First of all, everybody on today is in listen only mode. So if you want to ask a question, please do so by selecting the questions tool. from the control panel on the side of your screen, you can likely find those icons in the upper right hand corner of the interface. Type in those questions and we will cover them during the Q&A session near the end of today's presentation. Today's presentation is also being recorded and that recording will be available on the FBA website within 24 to 48 hours and you can find that in the resources tab once again on the FBA website. That is for FBA members, but if you don't have credentials, there'll be a link in the chat that will allow you to sign up for those credentials if you're a member organization. And lastly, we do have a brief survey at the end today. We'd love it if you would take that survey. It's one question long, but it helps us out a lot just to know how we can best plan and make these webinars even better for you. So with that, we'll go ahead and jump right in and get things started. So today we're going to be talking about how we get from that design and actually implementing it in reality and delivering on that design. So we're going to be talking about how we get from the Q&A session today. And so I'm pleased to be joined by James Wheatley and Troy Frizzle Lewis, who are from IQG and they're going to take us through this today. And with that, I'm going to go ahead and hand these over to James to get us started. So James, are you ready? Yeah, great. Thanks very much, David. Good afternoon, morning, evening, everybody from wherever you've joined. So as David said, my name's James Wheatley. I'm the head of the product management team at IQGEO. And today Troy and myself are going to take you through a few slides to first of all, to set some context and overall positioning, if you like, and then Troy will give us a demonstration of the software that we think we can help solve some of your challenges with. So Troy is going to drive. So if you want to go to the next slide, Troy. So IQGEO are all about building better networks. So that's our vision. We want to help network operators to build better networks. That's right across the design, build, sell and operate network lifecycle. So we want to be better, safer and more efficient. That's what we're trying to do overall as an organisation. So if we look at the next slide, the way we look at that is we look at that network lifecycle. So we look at the lifecycle and we try to save time and costs across all of those workflows that relate to the network lifecycle. So as I said, looking at design and so designing it once and we talked about the design phase in a previous webinar a couple of weeks ago. So if you want to learn more about that, then feel free to go and find that on the FBA website. And we'll talk a bit more about build today. That's obviously the focus moving from design to build. Of course, then there's also once you've built that network, you want to monetize that network. So you want to be able to sell capacity, sell services on that network very much from a physical perspective. And then, of course, you want to operate the network. So making sure that you've got the right people in the right place at the right time so that very efficient processes to support network operations. And underpinning all of that is a shared geospatial network model. So we're very much looking at this from the physical network perspective and the processes that we can support from a physical network point of view, whether that be inside or outside plan. And the capability we use to across that network model is Network Manager Telecom. That's our product that underpins the network lifecycle. So I think we've got a very simple poll question on the next slide. So just to go a couple of polls through the through the presentation. So just David will give you a moment to be able to select the answer and just so you can get used to the to the interface. So it looks like everybody's got the hang of pressing buttons in polls. I suspect that we're all fairly familiar with with doing that in the in webinars. Thanks very much for for doing that. And we'll have a couple more as we get through the presentation as well. So the slides just got a little bit of a delay for me. If you if you sense a pause, that's just me waiting for the slides to to catch up. So we talked about the network lifecycle and I mentioned that we're going to focus on the build component today within the the network lifecycle. So what we combine our geospatial network model there with is geospatial workflow orchestration. And we have an additional capability and additional component within our portfolio called workflow manager. And that's what we use to be able to provide that workflow support to stitch together the different phases of the lifecycle. And again, clearly the geospatial aspects map based understanding the location of the network where work needs to happen is is a critical component there. So if we look at the next slide, I'll talk a little bit about some of the business challenges that that you as as network operators or indeed as general contractors perhaps face when when trying to tackle some of these network construction and sometimes some of the operational processes as well. So we see three key things that are challenges that you face. So disjointed access to data is something that we see very commonly different systems, different access rights. And that's something that's hard for users to get access to the data that they need to do their job. Often the date is not the right kind of granularity. So not the resolution, if you like, of information that's needed to be able to successfully complete the work. And something that we see quite commonly is poor data governments, governments, governments. So hard to control data quality as well. So that overall workflow, it can be can be challenging there. And the second key challenge that we see is about network data not being available in the field. And this is a really common scenario. So often capabilities to be able to get data into the field are somewhat limited and often don't have the full set of capabilities that the solutions have available in the office. So limiting what the field user can do. We often see that it's hard to work offline and as fibre deployments get increasingly into more rural areas, then relying on network connectivity is something that you need to be able to have an offline solution to be able to support. And that equally relates back into as well when you get to operational processes in outage situations, you need to be able to be confident that your field teams have access to the data that need regardless of availability of connectivity. And finally, related to field availability is poor synchronization performance. So we could be dealing with large volumes of tickets. There's a lot of activity that happens in constructing an FTTH network. So having a highly performant system there is very important to be able to cope with the volumes of work that you expect to be able to push through such a system. And then I talked a little bit about data quality in the context of data governance. But this whole area around data quality is very important. And there's a lot of data that's being updated, being managed, and the control and quality of that data is vitally important because after all, what you're building in the network needs to be reflected in that geospatial shared network model. And in order to support those downstream processes to monetize that network, to support service fulfillment, service assurance processes, you really need to understand where the network is and how it's connected. And if you've got poor quality data, those processes are going to be challenged. So the opportunity is there to be able to simplify those processes around making sure it's easier to update the data in the field and to be able to have flexibility in the way that the users can achieve that. So breaking through some of those rigid process handling that we often see in some of the systems. So there's some of the challenges that we see. And then on the next slide, I'll just explain a little bit about the solutions that Troy will show that help to address some of those challenges. So Network Manager Telecom, as I said at the outset, that's our foundational solution, if you like. This provides that shared geospatially based network model. So this is an application that we've built specifically for network operators. And it's very simple to use. So we've focused significantly on usability. And it's focused on managing both inside and outside plant. And clearly we're talking about primarily fiber networks here, but we also support copper and coax networks as well. It's a web based mobile first solution I talked about in the challenges that need to have access to data in the field and field and office users access exactly the same data and importantly, exactly the same functionality. And that applies whether they're online or offline. So regardless of where they are and what their connectivity state is, they can access the same data and the same functionality as their office colleagues. And this underpins that whole geospatial network lifecycle. It's the foundation across the other processes depend on. They all depend upon data about the network, knowing where the network is and how it's connected. And that supports the rest of these processes. And from a deployment point of view, as I mentioned, this is a web based solution. We deploy this in a SAS environment for a certain segment of our customers. But this can also be deployed into any public or private cloud infrastructure as well. And then, as I mentioned earlier on, are layered onto network manager telecom is then workflow manager. So what workflow manager now provides for us is the ability to effectively manage tickets and tickets relate to activity that someone is going to conduct within the network. Now, clearly in the context of construction that we're talking about today, we're going to talk about tickets related to building the network. And but equally that could be tickets related to operational processes as well once the network is is live. So what workflow manager provides is the ability to easily create these tickets. So taking a design from network manager and seamlessly then transitioning that into a set of tickets related to the activity that needs to be able to to be completed in the field. This is all very configurable. So you can achieve that. Your system admins can configure the different levels that tickets created, the different network assets that they relate to. And then within the field, the users have different views of that information. And it's all tied back to the network model as well that they're working with. Of course, you want to be able to track progress. So this gives you the opportunity to track progress, generate reports and see how things are progressing on on dashboards, for example. And depending on how you manage your teams, you can also manage shift patterns and things like that as well. So that crews can automatically start and end their shifts when they begin work. And then I mentioned around the performance around synchronizing that data. So this is data that changes quite a lot changes quite quickly as users are changing that. And we've gone to particular length to make sure this performs well with that high volume of changing data. And of course, you've got different groups of users. You've got different crews. You've got contractors. If you're the network operator, you'll have a range of different contractors. So being able to build that into the system and support that different user and crew management application at the application level. Sorry, is very important. So that's some of the sort of general capabilities that workflow manager provides. Now, if we combine that with network manager and workflow manager, now we have a fully integrated network construction and operations solution, which can dramatically improve your workforce's efficiency. So this gives you a single pane of glass view across the network that you can see both your your network and you can bring in additional operational data. And in this context, our information about network construction. This is seamlessly mobile. So it's the same solution as being used out in the field and whether that's on a tablet, whether that's on a smartphone. So that's nice and easy usability for the for the end users. And of course, the whole point here is that we're providing an integrated workflow. So we're providing you a level of configurability that you can configure various forms to complete easy completion of network updates, reflecting the changes between as designed and as built and indeed all the data that might be required to be captured as well. And then, as I said, you know, this the solution overall is architected to to support large scale network operations as well. So we built this from the ground up with the intent to be able to support the largest of operators. So the sorts of benefits then that we can deliver to yourselves with that integrated solution. Three key areas really. So the geospatial work orchestration. And so bringing data together from multiple different sources from different systems and presenting that in that single pane of glass. We can streamline work into a single environment so that your crews only have to interact with with one system in the field. We're not attempting to do dispatching here. We're not scheduling and dispatching. We're just presenting all the work that the crew needs to do in a single environment in the context of the network. That's the that's the important aspect here. So that's that accessibility in the field. It can increase the field team's productivity by giving them that visibility of the work that they've got to complete. And they can do that online or offline depending on their network connectivity on on any device. And of course, as I say, it's quite common that this contractors that the operators are working with. So supporting the easy onboarding of contractors is again something that makes it very simple and streamlined process. And then finally around configuration. So we recognize that although operators always say you all do it the same, you don't quite all do it the same. So a level of configuration is very important so that you can tweak the processes, tweak the user interface and all through configuration such that you can then bring the process and the application closer together to find that sweet spot where you can be able to to really improve your workforce efficiency and streamline some of those processes. So I think at that point, we'll just pause again and have another poll. Thanks, David, for activating that. So what do you see as your current challenges in in construction management? You just take a minute to see to be able to press some buttons and we'll see all voting. I'll give folks a set to where to do so. Interesting. So if we can get to 50% of our attendees. So I think, okay, let's so interestingly that visualizing data and tracking construction progress is is the number one thing closely followed by that as built and the data in the field. So being able to as built and that's that's great news because that's exactly two of the key areas that we can we can help support with and you'll see some of that in in what Troy presents as well. And you'll understand how as you change the, you know, update the data, then we've got that information about the data and then we can take that forwards. But it's the important aspect is updating that information live in the field. So with that, I'll, I'll pause and I'll hand over to, to Troy, you can talk us through the, the application. Awesome. Thanks, James. Hey everyone. As David mentioned, my name is Troy Frizel Lewis and I'm the product manager for workflow solutions here at IQgeo. So moving seamlessly from fiber network design into field validation and construction can obviously be a huge challenge as many of you know. But in this demo, I'm going to show you just how simple it can also be with IQgeo's integrated network solution and our construction management template. So to kick things off, we're going to select the workflow manager construction ticketing application, which you see here, which leverages both network manager telecom that James showed you as well as workflow manager. So we're greeted with this view here. You can notice that there is a map tab, ticket manager, assigned work and admin tab on the bottom. So a bit different than your traditional network manager telco view, if you're familiar. But within this map tab here, you'll see all the familiar functionalities that you're used to. So we selected a basic design here for the purposes of this demonstration. And while you can't really see much before you go into it, now that I've opened the design, you can see a lot more detail here. So specifically, we're looking and kind of coming through a lot of the different engineering and field notes that have been created in network manager telco with our markup tools. So just a little refresher on kind of how the markup tools look and feel. Now, these could be used for anything from field design notes all the way to, you know, sending information back from the field to the office. We also have our layers details pane here on the left hand side. So lots of different layers here that you can turn on and off for your specific persona and purposes. If you're familiar with IQ Geo, you can probably resonate with just how easy it is to add different layers and bring in different pieces of information. You also have full access to the equipment tree and the cables to dive deeper into the underlying assets that we have within our construction design here. And you're really able to run any type of report you need, you know, jump into a schematic, run a trace and see the underlying details of the network that we're going to be installing here. So remember that we're in a design right now. We also can do this outside of a design. We don't necessarily need to have the design open. But what I'm going to do is go ahead and click on the polygon here in a second. And then you'll notice here that there's this new create project functionality. So design opened or design closed. We have the capability to come in here and pre configure on the admin side before we even get to this step ticket generation rules. So basically what it's doing is it's scanning this design polygon here. It's going to go ahead and read all the underlying features within that design. And then I can choose as the, you know, construction project manager, for example, to pick which types of design, sorry, which types of features I'm ready to construct in the field and which ones I want to go ahead and make tickets for. So maybe, you know, I'm going to do certain parts of this later when I'm going to activate the devices and the network in the field so I can leave those types of things out. But you can see here from a visual aspect, I now have these blue and green items on the map that reference the fact that my tickets have been created and are related to these different features on the map. So if I come over here to the ticket manager window, you can see here that a new project for test 003 new build has been created. And now these are all of my tickets within the project. So you can see they're listed out by type. You can do a lot of different things here in terms of grouping, sorting, filtering, changing your column orders and visibility, for example. But if I go ahead and kind of just sort by the type here, I can see and kind of multi select a bunch of different structure tickets that I've just created based off this design. Now you can see over here, I've grouped these to a construction group. I can bulk assign these. I can do them one by one. I can also create new manual tickets to this project if there's some that didn't get created from the automatic aspect. But I'm logged in here as this operator on and go ahead and assign them to myself essentially that I'm logged in. And then that way when we go over to the assigned work tab next, we can see everything that is assigned to me and that I know that I can kind of pull and start working in the field. So you see all these statuses have now changed to assigned. And then I can kind of go ahead and uncheck or maybe process some other operations on these tickets as I go. So this is just kind of showing you can also, like I mentioned, create a manual ticket and you could do a break fix OTDR ticket. There's there's lots of different options. And as James mentioned, the configurability of IQ Geo really lets you model anything within these types of workflows. But now I've jumped over to, as I mentioned, my assigned work view. So all these cards here on the left hand side of the screen are my list of tickets that are assigned to me as a user. I can easily click on each ticket to quickly bring me back over here to the map tab. Again, I can jump into the design. I can open it. I can see the underlying details of the network. I could run schematics. I could run traces. I could see the splice reports and things of that nature. So in this example, we have an MST in this in this utility box here in the middle. We can jump in. Like I mentioned, we can see the details of the splicing. It's really powerful what you can do when you're both operating on a ticket, right, executing work in the field, but also having all of this underlying network data with you out in the field is very powerful. It's also super simple with built in directions to any given ticket location. Previously, this took you to a nearest address in the latest versions. It actually takes you to the lat long, which is helpful in more remote areas. But for example, now that I have gotten directions to this ticket, I'm going to go ahead and route myself and update that in the system. We also have robust history tracking for each ticket that you can see here. And you can kind of see every little detail that gets updated and interacted with and essentially who did it for tracking purposes. So now we can say that I'm on site. That will again get updated in that history. I can quickly and easily jump back over to the map tab to continue my work while I'm on site. And now this could have multiple different ways of approaching based on your business logic for your organization, how you want to go about the process of the work actually taking place at the site. It's really awesome just how powerful a simple markup functionality and workflow can be within this integrated network solution. Users can simply create new markups that here I'm just editing an existing markup. There's a lot of information that can be quickly added via the smart forms and then updated to make different views of what this type of design looks like, whether it's from an engineering perspective, whether it's from a field user perspective, sending information back to the office. Right. We can kind of add leader lines to these different markup pallets. We can add pictures, we can change colors, we can rotate things. You can come up with different keys, for example, of, you know, these types of colors mean install. These mean, you know, we need to send it back through the process and do some rework. Really a lot of different powerful ways that you can just use something as simple as markup to capture these workflows in the field and update these tickets that live with the assets. The ticket details themselves can also be manipulated within the either assigned work or the ticket manager view. Something that's really cool to be able to do when you're out in the field, maybe on an iPad or a mobile device, is all of these smart fields simply work with the concept of dictation on an iPhone or an Android. So rather than kind of having to use your field thumbs out there on an iPad device, you know, in the bright sun, you can kind of just tap the microphone button and talk to it to fill out your ticket information and list any action items that need to be addressed later on. And notice here, this is kind of the one of the keys is that we've now linked the concept with this template of the construction ticket that is related to a feature so that as we create features as we create tickets related to these features and the tickets are getting updated, the underlying network is also getting completed. So there is a configurable model under the hood here that allows you to say as a ticket gets to a certain let's call it closed status within the configuration that I then want that network feature to go to a construction status of let's call it active or in service or live or energized, right? Depending on, you know, the industry and the use case. So as James mentioned with his integrated network slides that show the power of both workflow manager and network manager telco, it's really awesome to let the network model drive the workflows and the workflows to drive the network model. Finally, I'll just show you kind of what it would look like as a field user here. So if I log in from an iPad, I think this is like an iPad Gen 3, but you'll see the same exact environment. It should look very familiar to you. That is one of the beauties of IQ Geo and IQ Geo platform is that the user experience is essentially the exact same on a desktop as it is on a mobile device. The only really difference here is that instead of right clicks, you're going to be doing long presses to get some of your right click menu options to operate. But if I come in here and for example, this would be logged in as a field tech or field user persona, I'm really probably only going to see like my assigned work tab, for example. And it really depends again on your organization. You know, do you want the field users to be able to have access to edit the underlying network data? Do you want to limit them to only being able to add markup functionality that gets passed back to the person in the office? But they have the same powerful workflow visualization and processes within this mobile app that allows them to operate seamlessly on the desktop or on the mobile device. Still, you know, assign tickets to themselves. They can pick up self assigned tickets that are within their group. We can see Street View. There's like an AR VR mode on Street View, which is really handy for finding stuff in the field. We can do our same one box searches. We can still step into the designs. We can see all of these design notes and update them and manipulate them based on our needs with all the previous kind of ways that I mentioned. We can also do things like link to the features and link to, for example, attachments. We can link to images and we'll show you that in a second here. Just how powerful it can be to be able to. I think basic tickets just come with a standard photo attachment, but we can also do things even, you know, once we're on site, for example, if we want the operator in the field to take a specific picture. Right. So, you know, get directions, go to this site as part of this specific workflow that we have you working on with this specific ticket type. Add a specific photo field that says, you know, open open this type of equipment or open the structure, take a picture of the inside equipment and grab the serial number or something like that, for example. So really powerful kind of how you can just make this fit perfectly with your existing business processes and also use it to drive improvement through your business processes as you digitize and bring what's probably traditionally being done on paper and and many kind of swivel chair methods and bring it into this mobile first concept here on an app. Just another quick example of how easy it is to do the speech to text. Our operators that we've talked to really enjoy this functionality and easy to make these updates from the field. Last but not least, again, just an example of how easy it is to upload a picture with the mobile app. Add additional comments. All these smart forms, again, are configurable. So there's specific items you don't see here that you'd want to see. Definitely let us know about them and we can show you how easy it is to add through configuration. The configuration of how you set these things up is definitely a different presentation, a different webinar maybe, but it's really cool to kind of play around in there and see just how much control you can have over this environment to fit your specific business user needs. So just to wrap the ticket up there, we've now moved this to field complete on the mobile device. Now, field complete could be like all these statuses are also configurable. So field complete could kind of be like an intermediate status. When it does go to that final close status, though, again, that is what drives the related feature that got created when we did the creation of the project back in the beginning. There to then go over to this construction status and updated to be activated in the field. Just showing a bit of last markup here and interacting with some of the engineering notes to make final updates. But this really just shows how easy IQG is integrated network model with workflow manager and network manager telecom is to connect the fiber design and build process. So hope that was insightful. And with that, I'll turn it back over to James. James. James. All right. Thanks very much, Troy. So as we get to the last slide there. So yes, so just sort of as the key takeaways really. ways really so hopefully you've seen how we can provide that geospatially based work orchestration so you saw there in in the demonstration um how we can link the the assets on the map to the tickets that uh control the work that's being done there both from a network construction point of view moving seamlessly from uh design into uh into network build and this is accessible in the field i've noticed one or two questions in the in the chat about whether this is available online and offline and absolutely yes you can access the data offline we have a very robust mechanism that we use to enable the data and the functionality as well if the application is all available offline and obviously there's a setup process to do that so the data is available on the on the device that can be uh android ios or windows uh devices um or tablets and as troy mentioned uh we you know actively support touch interaction as well um so definitely available uh offline in the field and then there's a synchronization mechanism that will automatically synchronize when connectivity is uh is restored and the configuration aspect is very important um troy showed you some of the forms there that are available there's a great deal of flexibility that you can build into those forms so you can tailor that workflow to your specific needs if there's additional attribute information that you want to capture you and you can do that and you can make those forms context sensitive so the risk you know the answer to one question one set data can initiate other fields to be available for example so that you can really build that configuration um through you can obviously expand that as uh as you go and add additional uh processes so that takes me to that um seamless transition to network operations really so um you know we've clearly focused on on network build here uh but as you can see you end uh process with the uh an accurate model of the network that you have uh constructed which you can then use for the network operations and workflow manager can be used to support those operational processes they're clearly different workflows but you can enable those different workflows to be used uh through configuring different ticket types um and then be able to uh to use that same set of capability that your users are now familiar with as you move into uh into network operations um so that's the end of the presentation at that point um so as troy said thanks for your time we have got some uh questions that we'll endeavor to uh to do our best to answer yes and uh thank you both very much this was great and we do have uh some questions here um so i'm going to uh hit my screen up here but while we're doing that uh let's go ahead and jump right in so uh somebody's asking they say uh you referred to the integration with uh and they say i think you said network manager telecom does this solution work standalone um yeah that's a good question so so yes network manager telecom and if you wanted to just simply document and uh and manage your network um and you didn't want to use you know network construction or anything like that and then yeah you can use network manager telecom independently of uh workflow manager obviously what we've been talking about today is the combination of the two capabilities uh to support specific uh construction processes great um let's see here uh somebody's asking what about using other solutions in the field uh such as computer vision or similar solutions yeah that's a great question um so computer vision that's you know uh being able to take a photo show troy showed taking a photo there and touching that but you can um there's this technology available now that you can apply you know ai powered uh analysis to that photo that's been taken um and then you can check if uh the work that's been done has been done correctly uh so we can certainly we've worked with a number of vendors in that space and we've shown how we can integrate those uh solutions so you you back to that data governance data quality that i talked about right at the outset that the integration of those kind of things gives you that uh ability to be able to uh to improve uh your data governance as well yeah all right let's see moving on uh we have uh uh you talked about network design and build but can you explain a bit more about your how your products work in network operations yeah i kind of touched on that just towards the the final point there as i said that uh you know the workflow manager is a uh geospatial work orchestration tool we don't it doesn't really it's not tied specifically to construction we've configured it to to work for that construction workflow and we can configure it to work for other workflows so typical operational workflows break fix uh you know it could be um service fulfillment um workflows to support um you know a customer connection and that kind of thing so it's a there's a great deal level of flexibility and configuration that you can build into that um and of course some of our customers take that even a stage further um and you know customize the solution as well to to really extend uh and uh to build in some fairly complex workflows uh to support their business processes uh and uh we also have somebody asking about uh what about reporting on build progress um yep uh so although we didn't although troy didn't show that in the um in the demonstration what you did see is the ticket status is changing um and as those ticket status change you can then uh report on uh progress in fact in the latest release that uh that we've finished literally this week um then we've introduced some dashboard capability so that you can get a a graphical view a typical bar chart type presentation um of the status of uh of the various tickets the stages and where they are in in the life cycle yet so you can report on that uh on that um build progress yeah great and uh someone's asking if the monitoring solution is vendor agnostic um so it's i think um this was one of the questions submitted before and this isn't really a monitoring solution as such we're not um we're not our iqgeo solution doesn't connect directly to the network um but there is sort of two answers to that one is that our solution is vendor agnostic so you can uh document and manage um in uh equipment from any uh vendor it's specification driven so you can specify the manufacturer you know equipment uh criteria etc and reuse that specific specification many times and of course you know we've got customers all around the world so there's obviously a quite high degree of variability in the equipment they use the second part of that is that we can integrate with uh test and measurement uh vendors so um xfo vrv bad tran etc um you know we work with a number of those vendors um and we our apis are effectively agnostic to uh to that vendor uh so you can um fire in requests to locate a particular fault for example a very simple uh example and uh i think this is a good one this is another question that i came in uh i believe during registration uh what happens if you discover your engineering is not an efficient deployment plan yeah that's a that's a good question um so i think that maybe takes us back to the the webinar we did a few weeks ago actually which was around design so we provide a capability within our portfolio to automate and optimize uh the network design process so um that can combine with that uh the you know the sort of try to optimize the network design and if it's not an efficient deployment plan one of the things that we've seen operators commonly do is actually take that initial design so quite early stages and take that out into the field and with the designer and uh your construction crew chief for example and to sort of walk that out and make sure that that design uh does actually uh uh is going to be constructible uh so obviously we do our best to uh to come up with a constructible design that's one of our objectives with our our software and we've seen operators use uh you know various i mean street views the simple example we use all the mobile mapping data to improve the quality of the design as it you know initially takes place in the uh in the office um so that way you can try to strive for something that is as close to constructible as uh as possible um when the design actually goes out into the field hopefully that uh helps to answer the question and uh yes and just again to call attention you do have the previous webinar so uh you'll be able to access those through the fba website and we'll make sure that people have access to that um this is an interesting one that came in uh when the user fuse workflow is there an ability to remind specific tasks such as for example maintenance of the fusion splicer to assure lowest loss yeah yeah if i if i understand the question correctly um yes i think that you so you mean if there's a like if they've got a specific thing to to do uh do they does it get a reminder of them uh you know what they need to do so um potentially yes you can break down a task into subtasks so you could include that in there and if you mean is there so they would like be sub activities that need to be completed if you mean is there sort of the ability to introduce like guidance step by step guidance to to you know do step one step two step three to complete that particular work um don't think that's anything that we've implemented um out of the box as you saw from what troy provided you could associate some uh another document to the ticket so that certainly would be uh would be possible um but that would maybe require a bit of extra configuration to make that a seamless process i think that's a really good way to do so um and we did have uh as you mentioned several questions about the use offline and those are coming in here um yeah i don't know if you wanted to address that again but uh uh i can just yeah just reiterate that you know yes it is uh uh it is uh um available offline you can work offline yeah yeah and then we'll synchronize back in um somebody's asking could you give an example of a splice schematic or splicing instructions that could be printed on yeah i can't give you an example uh right now but network manager telecom uh you can as i mentioned you can document and manage all of the connectivity at splice locations um and there is a report that can be generated to to be able to show that so um it's a um a textual report shows you the connections that need to be made um and you can obviously then uh print that out on paper we do also have a schematic but the schematic looks at a larger chunk of network if you like so it's not really what gives you the context um for what work you're going to do and then the splice report gives you the detail of what would need to be changed great um so let's see if uh um so uh somebody's asking they asked the question we asked for more details on this um when is markup text going to be meter based not pixel based and so for clarity uh they followed up saying currently the markup text is pixel based uh as you can see on the screen meter based would lock the size of the text yeah so that's a very specific question from what i guess one of our uh one of our users so yeah that's that's an item that's on the on the product roadmap for a future release yeah and uh going back to splicing uh can the splicing report support ribbon splicing uh yes unless there's some other specific uh you know uh requirement that's lurking behind that uh assumption would be yes all right uh and not a question did ask about uh cheap on unbalanced networks um yeah i i think the answer to that my assumption is can your system support these networks and the answer is yes we can uh document and uh and manage uh unbalanced cheap on networks yeah great i think that that's all that we've have in at the moment but um with that we'll just give it a second here if anybody wants to jump in um but uh with that i just want to uh thank you both once again uh troy and james uh great as always and thank you of course for doing this we'll make sure that people have access to that um to the other iq geo webinars where you talk about the design i know that came up uh several times today and uh with that i just have a couple of quick announcements before we wrap up if you've joined these webinars before you've heard of you're probably familiar with this already but we have our big show coming up uh the fiber connect 24 conference in nashville this year is at the end of july if you have not already registered i'd encourage you to go out and do so we'd love to see you there uh i'm uh certain some uh some of our folks from iq geo as uh along with many of our our members it's great for uh great opportunities to uh to see some uh uh terrific sessions and of course networking and we also have a lot of fun planned too 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