Network Manager Telecom
Demo: Modeling smart poles
Network Manager Telecom modeling smart poles feature.
See how to quickly create and deploy a smart pole architecture and property model within your network with IQGeo fiber network management software.
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In this short video, we're going to share the flexible and powerful modeling capabilities of IQGeo's Network Manager telecom software. In this example, you'll see how quick and easy it is to create a smart pole architecture and will show Network Manager's ability to model these locations in either a detailed and modular way or simply with a single structure location housing all the necessary equipment and connectivity. Using Network Manager Telecom, you can configure smart pole locations and their property models to capture all orderable accessory components particular to each smart pole. Configuration options in this scenario include a pole structure, a base cabinet component, an antenna module component, riser cabling, base cabinet equipment, and antenna module equipment. This level of detail also supports bill of material reports for ordering all necessary components for the pole location and its cellular and Wi-Fi technology, along with the necessary detail for installation and future field maintenance operations. You can begin by reviewing the objects that make up the smart pole model in the structure and equipment layers, starting with the pole structure. In the equipment layer, you see the antenna module, base cabinet, and all the equipment that can be mounted in these locations. Next, you select the smart pole instance and review the hierarchical design of the location consisting of all of its components, including incoming fiber cabling and riser cabling within the pole. By expanding the out and in sides of the patch panel in the smart pole base cabinet, you can see the input cabling and riser drop cabling IDs and port assignments. Moving back to the smart pole structure layer, you can dynamically render a schematic view of the cabling you reviewed in the details pane and highlight the incoming cabling and view descriptive information about the riser cabling. Next, you can review each individual modular component that makes up your smart pole location and view the installation details and specification properties, starting with the 30-foot smart pole structure, then your cellular or Wi-Fi antenna module, and ending with your base cabinet that houses patch panel equipment. After seeing your smart pole components, you can review fiber optic connectivity by performing a trace from a cellular antenna inside your smart pole antenna module housing, to a distribution panel in your point of presence serving this area. This can be visualized in both trace detail list and schematic view options. This trace report can be exported from the user interface as a simple detail list trace or as a combined schematic and list report. In this example, you reviewed a modular multi-component based asset model for a smart pole location. But users have the choice of modeling these locations in less detail or even more detail through the easy to use Network Manager configuration user interface. Once entered into Network Manager, these locations are easily traced and located and are available to support any degree of office and field operations throughout their lifecycle, including activations and integrations to OSS and BSS systems. IQgeo's Network Manager Telecom software allows you to quickly and easily define any network location or device in the level of detail required by your organization. The same optimized user interface also enables you to create and define the behaviors of entirely new network equipment types to insert and use in your network model. Thank you for your time, and please check out our other Network Manager Telecom demo videos.



