Network Manager Telecom
Network Manager Telecom product overview
Take a quick tour of the capabilities of IQGeo Network Manager Telecom software.
A game-changing geospatial solution that is optimized for telecom network operators. Using a reality-centric approach that creates a living digital twin of the physical network assets, Network Manager Telecom accelerates design productivity and promotes greater collaboration between office-based designers and field engineers.
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You deliver telecommunications services that keep our homes and businesses connected and we couldn't imagine life without you. But with the deployment of 5G and IoT and greater customer demand for higher value services, these are challenging times. Your digital strategy is crucial to success and IQGeo will help you to meet your ambitious objectives. Our Network Manager geospatial software enables you to create and maintain a real-time accurate view of your network assets. The integrated mobile-first architecture streamlines construction and maintenance processes, improving data quality and currency. The following four operational use cases illustrate IQGeo's reality -centric approach and the benefits it brings to your business. While working on a fiber network in Cambridge, the designs layer shows that you have several active designs. Concurrent design scenarios allow your organization to work on multiple designs in parallel. Topology and network connectivity and how it modifies your as-built network is maintained in the design without editing the master as-built data. Viewing a design on Capcom Road, you see the proposed features and clicking on a feature provides more detail. A poll shows the associated equipment such as splitters and cables serving these homes. You can also use tools like Google Street View to view the reality on the ground. To confirm that this property is correctly connected, select the single port on the wall box and run an upstream trace. This immediately shows how the fiber reaches this property from its starting point on port 73 in the patch panel at the woodhead hub. When complete, a design is submitted and your workflow can change its status to ready for construction or kick off a pre-construction survey. Concurrent design scenarios use master as-built data to help planners create and validate efficient designs that align with field realities, saving you time and money. A request is raised for a new customer fiber connection at a local business. You start by creating a new design and defining the structural elements required to serve the customer. Set the basic properties, including name and status, followed by its geographic extent, and open the design to start working. Using the underground trench in front of the customer site, create the structural elements required for the connection. Adding two manholes will make it easier in the future to serve other new fiber customers. Design objects are simple to create, and selecting the relevant manhole model populates all the required dimensions. Next, layout the underground route between the two manholes, making use of the snapping capability to ensure that the network is connected. Click on the underground route to see that it is now split between the two manholes. You can update the network topology based on this design. These updates are non-destructive and contained within the design until they are accepted as an as-built project. To finish off the structural design elements, add a wall box at the customer premise and an underground route to the manhole. Before creating new equipment to connect this customer, you'll want to validate the connection to the as-built network. Simply run a check to each structural feature to see the shortest route to the hub. This check from the wall box confirms a valid route. Greater connection request productivity improves customer satisfaction and increases your competitiveness. You're now in the field digging trenches to install ducts for fiber rollout. Your crew dug a trench in a different location than the design, so you'll need to provide accurate as-built information to the planners. Using IQgeo Capture on a tablet, tap the pencil to see the data types you can collect. The platform can be configured to complete different types of field activity. For example, you select as-built update as a scenario type, and this opens a capture package to hold all the information associated with the modified trench. You can easily create different feature types in an as-built update based on your organization's data model. Tap on the modified underground route, and a form pops up to record attributes and geometry. Having updated the trench route, you can provide the change details to planners and back office staff. This trench is rerouted due to a large tree represented by a point object. Add photos to provide context, and use the map and photo redlining tools to sketch out the new trench and insert annotation. The capture package is given a name and attributes, such as a job ID. Company specific fields can be easily added and auto-populated if appropriate. Submitting a capture package kicks off a back office process that can generate a QA QC ticket, ensuring all changes are properly reviewed before publication. This example shows how IQ.geo's open and flexible mobile solution can dramatically improve data quality and collaboration between the field and office. In this final use case, a customer calls about their fiber service, and a maintenance ticket is opened for a field engineer to investigate. You can view the ticket directly on your tablet. Explore additional information about the call, and tap on the routing icon for turn-by-turn directions to the house. You can also open a map to view the ticket location. You use the routing capability to find the woodhead hub ticket location and perform an OTDR trace. Check which patch panel and port provides the house connection. You can do this by running an upstream trace from the ONT inside the box. The trace shows that the customer is connected from the ODF1 patch panel on port number 2. Using this information, connect your OTDR equipment to this port and run a diagnostic test. You can now enter the resulting test distance into the IQ.geo platform after choosing to run a downstream OTDR trace from the relevant port. The trace shows there's an issue with the splice in this manhole, and you solve the problem by re-splicing the fibers. The last step is to add a photo of the manhole and set the resolution to spliced before closing out the ticket. With rapidly changing network infrastructure and expectations, you need a cost-effective digital strategy that's built for the challenges of the 21st century. Together with IQ.geo, you can create and maintain a real-time, accurate view of your network, dramatically increasing the quality and currency of your operational data. Control the cost of field planning, design, construction, and maintenance, while increasing customer satisfaction. Visit our website or talk with our team about how IQ.geo can help you drive greater productivity and collaboration across your entire organization.



