Nick Pena,
Vice President of Fibersmith,
we're an engineering firm in Columbia,
Missouri.
As consulting engineers,
we design and help construct a number
of aspects of fiber optic networks.
And so we use IQGeo every day to design and
help model networks that we have designed.
Contractors we work with and our clients
who are using IQGeo in the field,
love the mobile application.
They think it's honestly the best mobile app that
they've used for tracking plant record management.
It's wonderful to be able to leave the office with a tablet and
have a complete record of the plant that they're walking into.
Splicers don't have to beg for splice canister diagrams
anymore when they can model the actual trace in the field.
It's been a huge time savings.
IQGeo is saving our clients money in outage conditions all the time.
If there's an outage in a specific market,
they're able to take a look at the data that we've got.
Take that copy of their plant out in the field,
run simulated OTDR traces back from specific patch panel ports.
It means that their networks can be brought up faster,
which saves them money,
stops cancellations.
It's a huge savings.
Initially,
back in the day,
when we sent people out to stake or do field collection,
we'd send them out with a stack of documents about this thick.
Now,
since we've modeled these networks in IQGeo,
we're able to send them out with a tablet.
Like,
for example,
changes that need to occur,
like moving a handle from one side of the road to the other,
or that pole doesn't exist.
It really has been
a huge benefit to our field collectors,
who are very happy not to have to lug around 250 pages.
For our clients that are using IQGeo,
it's become a big part of how they rely
upon it for maintaining their networks.
We developed a product called Vision that ingests the plant record
from the drop all the way back to the patch panel or the splitter.
And so for our clients that are using IQGeo,
they wouldn't be able to turn on their
subscribers as quickly as possible as they have.
It would send them back in time, essentially.
We've been using IQGeo for the last two years.
We see a lot of opportunity for growth and extended
integrations between our software and IQGeo.
