Network Quoting
Network Quoting (formerly known as Network Revenue Optimizer)
Network Quoting product overview.
See how IQGeo's Network Quoting (formerly known as Network Revenue Optimizer) helps you quickly and accurately evaluate new customer connection opportunities. Whether you're assessing a single address or planning broader service expansions, Network Quoting gives you the tools to estimate construction costs, optimize routes, and prioritize prospects, making your network investments faster, smarter, and more profitable.
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Today, I'll show you how IQGeo's Network Revenue Optimizer helps you quickly and accurately evaluate new customer connection opportunities. Whether you're assessing a single address or planning broader service expansions, NRO gives you the tools to estimate construction costs, optimize routes, and prioritize prospects, making your network investments faster, smarter, and more profitable. Let's start by searching for an address where we want to create a new connection. After searching, we click New Estimate and NRO automatically creates a new estimate with a demand point placed at the search location on the map. Besides searching by address, you can also manually add demand points by clicking on the map, upload a list from CSV file, or use the API to automate adding larger number of points. With the demand point placed on the map, we're almost ready to generate an estimate. If needed, we could also manually configure a specific tie point. This is the location where the new service should connect into the existing network. But in this case, we'll let NRO automatically select the best available tie point based on proximity and routing logic. Which types of equipment are eligible to be used as tie points is fully configurable, so you can define whether NRO should consider only certain assets like splice closures or cabinets. I am enabling business influence. Which tells NRO to consider not just construction costs, but also potential revenue. This adds a result type that prioritizes routes, passing more prospects, helping identify options with greater long-term value. Let's submit this estimate. When calculating the route, NRO takes into account the configured cost logic. It considers to configure build and permit costs, not only for different types of routes, such as existing underground, existing aerial, or new construction, but also for other infrastructure, like poles or cabinets. It also considers specific zones, which might have higher or different construction costs. For example, crossing a rock area or a city center with special permits requirements. In addition, NRO automatically avoids obstacles. These are areas that are marked as off limits for construction, such as restricted zones or inaccessible terrain. By factoring in all these settings, NRO ensures that the calculated route is optimized for both feasibility and cost effectiveness. Now that the estimate is processed, I hope need to review the results. NRO has generated three route types, each optimized for a different goal. Shorter path, less cost, and a more prospect. Each result includes a summary with the total estimated costs, route distance, estimated construction duration, and the number of reachable prospects. Let's first take a look at the shorter path results. This route is optimized for the least physical distance between the demand point and dive point. But even here, NRO respects any configured obstacles. You'll see on the map that the route deliberately avoids this obstacle area, showing you how the system honors real-world construction constraints. Next, the less cost result takes a different approach, and looks for the route with the lowest overall construction costs, which may involve a longer path, but makes better use of existing infrastructure, or avoids expensive areas. You can clearly see a difference in cost between the less cost and the shorter path result. Finally, let's look at the more prospects result. This option tells NRO to prioritize routes that maximize potential revenue by connecting more prospects, even if the construction cost is slightly higher. You can see here that with this route, it passes 64 prospects compared to 35 for the less cost option, but it has a higher cost. By comparing these routes on the map, we can clearly see the trade-offs between distance cost and revenue opportunity and make more informed network investment decisions. From here, NRO allows us to download the full design. We can export it as a KML or KMZ file for easy sharing or further visualization in GIS tools like Google Earth. Finally, we can dive deeper into the results report. We can expect the cost item breakdown, where we can see all the cost items that make up the estimate result. For example, we can see that there's an existing aerial cost, 683 feet, with a total cost of $3,419. There's a cost for using poles. There's a premium underground cost, also a rock adder cost for a specific area. We can also inspect the individual routes that are included in the estimate. Let's look at specific routes here. We can inspect the total cost for this route. And you can see which cost items are applied to this route. See that there's an underground permit and a new underground cost for this specific route. Within this rules area. There's an additional rock adder cost applied. And here we can see that there's an additional premium underground cost. We can also see our individual pole usage costs for each of the poles. Finally, we can also inspect the list of prospects that are passed via this route. This provides complete transparency and actionable insights for making fast-informed network investment decisions. Next, let's add some additional demand points and switch to a daisy chain topology. In the daisy chain, multiple demand points are connected along the same main route. Helping to reduce construction costs and maximize network efficiency. Automated injury. See technology. the route for each demand point enters this May route. This will improve the return on investment by minimizing the cost for new construction. Sometimes you might want to manually adjust the route. For example, to make detailed routing corrections or change construction types. Let's do this now. So we can take this route here. For example, we might not have a poll data for this area, but we know that there are existing utility poles that we're able to reuse for this route. What we can do is we can edit the route and change the cost items, change this to a new aerial cost instead of the underground cost that was set. We could also make geographic corrections to this route. Change to routes. Save this. And after making manual changes, you can simply click recalculate costs. And NRO will update the cost and route summary automatically reflecting the adjustments. So we can see cost is saved. Cost is updated. And we have our new cost item for this route. That concludes the demonstration. Thank you for watching.



