Network Manager Telecom Path finder for sales teams feature.

Welcome to a demonstration of Pathfinder, a new tool found in IQGeo's Network Manager Telecom version 2.6. My name is Matthew Fisher and I am the Product Manager for the Network Manager Telecom application. Pathfinder is a tool that will help you find the best path to bring new service to a customer. So I'm going to demonstrate how to do this today within the Network Manager application. So first thing I want to do is this tool is built for the fiber designer so it needs to be used within a design. So I'll go and I'll open up this design that I refer to as the Pathfinder demo. In this location I have a start point and I have an endpoint that I will want to use to get feed the Pathfinder tool to be able to get the best path possible. So I want to open my tools palette. Go to the Pathfinder application. And then I'm going to, now that I have my design open, I am going to remove the boundaries. So we'll select this start structure. So this will be your point of presence or your hub where you're going to provide service from. So here I'll decide the port that I want to select. So in this case I'm going to select the first port. And then I want to go to the location that I want to get service to. So this would generally be a new customer, a new home that you're trying to get service to. So we'll select the cabinet here and hit set to select this as my structure. Now we have some features that we can use to help the tool better get the best route for you. So we have this include and avoid functionality. Now any time you add any items to include or avoid it's going to help the performance of the tool. It's going to be able to do a better job of finding you the exact path that you want. So in this scenario I'm going to select this route right here and add it to the avoid. So when I generate my path, I'm looking to, in this ring here, I'm looking to avoid going around here to the right. I want it to go travel to the left. But here we'll go to the other options we have. We can sort by the shortest distance or the least new connections. So this would be the least amount of new splices that need to be made. So you won't have to send as many splicers to the field. And then the least amount of existing connections. We also have some other options for max pass. Generally on a tool like this you want to kind of limit how many pass you have because there could be quite a range of pass. So by having only a handful of them you'll be able to get pass returned to you quicker. And we can also select the distance. So this is helpful if you know that there may be some incredibly long pass, maybe going through multiple different counties to be able to get to the location you're trying to get to. But you also know there's some quicker pass along the way. So you can set the distance here and the application will limit the pass it returns based on this max distance. And then the last thing is excluding similar pass. Now this is important because you may have a group of fibers, but you only want to use two of those. But maybe there's 24 fibers and so you have 12 different pairs that would be able to get you the same route to the same spot. We have this option for excluding similar paths so you can be able to just get the first pair of fibers that pass present to you and then go from there. So in this scenario I'm going to just run this generate tool. We have a way to cancel out in case that you decide you wanted to select more starting ports. We can you can select as many as you need to as long as they're sequential. Then you can also get the feedback from the tool as it was running in the past. Now in this scenario I'm able to get one path and that is because I avoided the second path that would have been taken around the right here. So when I look at the results I can see the distance which matches up to the sort by the distance existing connections and the new connections, as well as the loss values. I can also see these results and this can be highlighted for each of the objects that you're you're selecting here and can give you some important information like loss values distances. And then you can also hover over the manholes or the locations where connections need to be made. So if you see the star here that represents that a connection needs to be made. You can also it's also represented by these yellow circles. So the circles with yellow in them mean that there's a new connection that needs to be made there. And then the other circles are your start and end place. We also highlight the the route. So in this case we have a path that goes goes left out of the hub. And then it has it's been selected in red so that we know that this is the path that the Pathfinder has found for you. When you've decided that this is the path that you want, you can choose the circuit type down here. So this will query the database for available circuit types. In this scenario I'm going to just create a use use this basic circuit. I'll hit create and put in a name. So I'll do pathfinder demo. I'll leave the rest of the data the way it is and then I'll hit save. So when I hit create it will create this new circuit but it will also ask me if I want to create the new connections. So what that means is it will be able to add splice cases or use existing splice cases where it's necessary to create the splicing to get this route from point A to point Z. So I'm going to hit yes in this scenario. So I'll hit OK. And now it's saving this circuit. OK. Now it's saved and it has the splicing created for you. So if I look at this circuit it can see that it was created from this location down here at the bottom. And then it went to the end point that I selected at my start point. Now if we go down here and we'll just select this first port you can see that there's a circuit on it now. And we'll run a trace downstream. And we can see that it goes along this path and it is connected. There are splices down at each of these locations where the application said that there needed to be a splice to make this connection. One of the other cool features from this release is when I go into this manhole and I select this splice closure can generate the splice report and it will show me which splices are new. So in this example there are no fibers already spliced in this case. So Pathfinder was able to pick fiber one. And being that this is a new splice required to get service to this new location we have this new column here. So this is something you could print out down here in the different formats provide this to your splicer and they'll know what fibers are new that have to be spliced to get this new customer up and running. So this is the Pathfinder tool. Hopefully this demonstration has been helpful to you. If you have any questions please reach out to me at matt.fisher at iqgeo.com and we can go over any of the new features over in the 2.6 Network Manager release. Thank you.