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Hello everyone, welcome and thank you for taking the time to join us today for our webinar on the secret to accelerating your fiber planning and design process. I'm Kelly Barford, Digital Marketing Director at IQGeo and I will be helping with some of the logistics for today's session. The presentation will be around 45 minutes with time for questions at the end. So please type them into the question box throughout the webinar. My colleague Crawford will be going through the questions and selecting some to ask our presenters. And we'll try to get through as many as we can in the time that we have during today's live session. And if we don't get to your question, we will follow up with you afterwards. Also, we do want this to be interactive and we have a few poll questions coming up that you can vote on. It would be great to have your input. So keep an eye out for those popping up throughout the webinar. I will now hand over to our hosts. So over to you, James and Jonas. Thanks Kelly. Hi everybody, my name is James Wheatley and I'm the Head of Product Management for IQGeo. Jonas, can you introduce yourself? Yeah, my name is Jonas Westerft and I am the Product Manager for Comsof Fiber and NRO at IQGeo. Thanks very much. So today we want to talk to you about building better networks and how we can improve the planning and design process. So that's what IQGeo is all about. We're all about building better networks. So we provide a single integrated solution for both telecoms and utility operators to plan, build, sell, operate better, safer and more efficient networks. And a bit more concretely on the next slide, we're talking about that network life cycle. So that planning and design, the construction, sales and marketing, operations and maintenance. And what we're trying to do is save you time and cost by accelerating the workflows right across those different stages of that network life cycle and particularly around the transitions between the different stages. And in today's webinar, what we'll focus on is planning and design. That's the main topic of what we're going to look at today. So I think we've got the first poll question now. So this is around how do you manage your workflows and data during the planning and design process? And so hopefully the poll is live for you to be able to pop in your answer. So if you can just. Yeah, I've just opened the poll for people to vote on. So I'll just give people a few seconds there. And then a few more seconds and then I'll close this first poll. So I'll just share the poll results. Can you see them, James? Yes, I can actually. Yeah, that's great. Thank you. So that's interesting. There's quite a lot of people still with some manual processes and tools. A few people with a fully optimised and improved process and an awful lot of people with some automation but limited process integration. So with nearly 60, 70, 80% of the audience looking to improve what they've got, then I think you'll find that this is going to be very relevant to yourselves as well. So at this point, I'm going to hand over to Jonas and he's going to take us through some more of the detail here of how we can help you with that particular challenge. Yes, yes, I will. Thank you, James. So today we'll mainly look at two important stages within a Fiber2DX project, which is the planning stage and the design stage. And what I want to share with you today is look at what's the goal of each of these stages. What are the challenges, main challenges that we see within this to achieve this goal? And what are some different ways that we can resolve this? And I'll show you a solution of IP Geo that can help resolve these challenges as well. So the first stage is planning stage. What's the main goal of a planning stage? That's to define your rollout strategy. It's defining where you will roll out your network, what investments that you need to roll out your network, and what the best way is to invest your funds to decide where to roll out, which areas to leave out, which areas to go at first. And in general, determine how much investment that you need to achieve your plans. That brings us to the first challenge. It's getting accurate cost estimations to back up your rollout strategy and your business plan. It's very important within the planning stage to be as close as possible to the eventual cost to build your network, because being even a couple of percentages off for a large rollout can mean millions of euros or dollars that you're off from your initial business case, which can have a big impact on your business case and on your project. So that's our first challenge. The second challenge is that for a lot of customers or operators out there, they're looking at a very large potential footprint, a very large area where they could roll out their network. A lot of potential customers that they can connect to and they need to determine, yeah, what is the order to connect these and which will I connect first and which will I connect later? If this goes up to 100 hundreds of thousands or millions of homes, it's very difficult to get to an accurate cost estimate. You cannot design every home in detail or design every network in detail if you're doing this manually. That's simply not possible because that brings us to the third challenge. You will be under time pressure. There's competitors moving in. Everybody's rolling out, rolling out fiber. So that time pressure is real and you need to make sure that you can move fast, that you can have a solid business case as fast as possible so that you can get moving with your project. So those are the main three challenges that we're seeing when determining your rollout strategy within the planning stage. That takes us to the second poll question. Yeah, so opportunity here, you know, Eames has just outlined some of the challenges that we see. We'd be interested to get your feedback and perceptions on what you see in these challenges. I've just launched that poll, so I'll give people a few seconds to vote. Okay, I just shared the results there. Yeah, great. Brilliant, thanks very much, Kelly. Yeah, so that's interesting. That, you know, a fairly even spread across a number of those things. I can see that comparing multiple scenarios is the biggest challenge, but the others are quite up there as well. 20% looking at struggling with the accuracy and the time to obtain that. I think one of the things that we're trying to do here is with all of those different aspects is to help the planner in that process. So kind of take the hero from the take the planner from being the villain to the hero. So you're really able to get the results quickly and run that up the chain in the business to be able to help make those business decisions. So really take away the hard manual labor and replace that with the system to be able to you to apply your intelligence and skills, planning skills into the equation if you like. So with that. Yeah, it's really interesting to see that comparing multiple scenarios is scoring scoring so high. And yeah, I think I'm really addressing this in the in this webinar as well, how we can help to compare multiple scenarios. And I think that one of the answers to this is trying to automate as much as possible things that can be automated that takes repetitive. work right now or can introduce errors automating these these sort of steps and trying to get to go one step further even when you're looking at large scale areas automating routing decisions clustering decisions placement of cabinets. These are things that yeah, if you're automating these this decision making and making sure that the equipment that's being selected is following detailed design rules and and very detailed costs information so that you're making sensible decisions making smart decisions in an automatic way. And this frees up a lot of time which can help a planner to spend its time and looking at multiple multiple scenarios and comparing multiple scenarios getting more insights using using their insights to to come up with scenarios that they want to that they want to take a look at which can open up new new opportunities. So it's giving a lot of opportunities so it's giving a lot of power into the hands of the planner when you're looking at automation editing. So like I say, you'll be able to handle large areas helps to speed up the planning process enabling you to look at at multiple scenarios. And I think when you're doing automation right then and having that detailed design rules, then you're increasing that accuracy significantly as well when you're looking at the cost estimations. Second point to address the challenges is being driven by by GIS data. So not doing your your planning by just simple Excel calculations extrapolating data and doing simple sort of simple calculation, but really using the GIS data within your planning stage can increase the accuracy significantly. And there's a lot of jazz data available. You probably also have a lot of GIS data that you could use within a planning stage. And the more data that you have available and that you can use the better. I mainly want to highlight using or including existing infrastructure information within a planning stage because this is a huge cost saver for your project. If you do it right, if you can include information on capacity constraints as well for existing infrastructure. Then you can get very accurate when it comes to the cost estimations. You're not underestimating the cost. If you're just using if you're using existing infrastructure capacity as well in a good way, then you can get very, very accurate with your your cost estimation. So this is really, really important. And being able to use your graphic data is just. Yeah, it's a it's mind blowing what we can do for your for your accuracy. Another thing which is, I think, important is having detailed information on where the costs are coming from for your for your design, for your for your plan. So having information on cables, ducts, civil works, even splice information. If you have all that that that information available for a design that's being done that you can use for your business case, it allows you to do a very detailed analysis of of the design of the architecture for a particular area and enables you again to look at other scenarios. So if you if you can identify where the major costs are coming from, you might as a planner, look at that and try out a different set of architecture, different rule set. Maybe it can be an incentive to look at driving down the cost for these individual works as well. And what we're seeing as well with having a detailed bill of material, it increases a lot the confidence within your for your business. In this case, it's not a black box that gives you a single number for for design for 50,000 homes, for example. It's not yet will be this as many millions of dollars to connect it. No, you really get it. If you have a detailed breakdown of all the costs, then it just increases confidence and you can really see where that that money is coming from or how that money is spent to roll out your potential network. And so it really increases the confidence. And next point to to address the challenges or maybe go go beyond as well is having control over the design, even within a planning stage, which is which can be really yeah. Can be really important. So having control over which yeah, how cabinet serving areas are determined or cabinet locations or feeder serving areas. So having the option to have control within this stage and to find your plan. But not spend time in redesigning all of the cables, all of the ducts. So having that time saver, but still having control. I think it empowers empowers planners a lot to to to increase the accuracy again of the of the calculation that's being done. So they're there they're being as close as possible to what the eventual network could could look like and having a very intuitive design control. control that's that that can be really a game changer. Then next point didn't score that that high, but I think it's it's it's again something it didn't score that high in the poll, but I think it's something that can help increase confidence as well is having a visual layout of the network as well as with the bit of material where you have a detailed breakdown of all the costs. If you can visualize what the potential the plan network could look like see where tranching will happen where cables will be deployed where it's using aerial where it's using underground. It just increases confidence a lot. It's it's not a like I've said before. It's not a black box where you have a single number single estimate for your whole design. design, no, it's really coming from an actual network layout that can be built. And I think that's that's really, really, really interesting if you have this capabilities within the within the planning stage. Yeah, and then the final point is the point that that scored very high in the poll. It wasn't the initial challenges, but having the capability to analyze different scenarios, play around with different network architectures and and yeah, having different network architectures. different options on cables on ducts on cable deployment strategies available if you're if you're having if you're comparing multiple equipment vendors or yeah, just have have a lot of different types of equipment to your disposal. It's it's worthwhile to compare network architectures for different types of areas for more rural areas more dense areas. So with automation and with a yeah, with a rules configurator out of the box that has a lot of these options. It allows you to compare different scenarios very easily. And also, yeah, look at different types of regions using using automation and trying to identify new new opportunities. So I think that's that's really, really valuable as indicated in the poll as well. All right. So next up is the design stage. So yeah, the design stage, what's the goal of the design stage? That's that's pretty easy, I think. So you've selected the areas that you want to roll out. You go into a in the design step. So you need designs that are ready to build. You need to know where to roll out your network, where to do trenching, which cables, which ducts are needed, where where you use aerial underground, all of that information. Needs to be ready within your design so that you can hand it off over and go to construction. So that's the main goal of of the design stage. What do we see as as main challenges? And the design needs to be cost cost effective. You're following a certain set of design guidelines. There's a couple of different ways that you can roll it out. And you need to take into account the cost of mainly civil works, which is which is the main driver of your design. You need to do that in a smart way. You need to route your your cables and ducts in the right way so that you do this in the most cost effective cost effective way. So that's that's our our first challenge. Second challenge is following the correct architecture. So making sure that the design guidelines are followed. They are there for a reason to to help make the deployment easier to help with the maintenance of the network. In case something goes wrong, that will be a lot easier and documentation will be easier and straight more straight forward. So you need to make sure that the design that you create follows that architecture, follows those design guidelines. And very important, there's no errors in in the design errors can be very, very costly if they're discovered very late within your within your project. If you only discover errors during the build stage, a cable that is that is not there or a connection that cannot be be made. Those can be very costly. You need to go back to to to do to redo the design or decide on the spot how you want to how you want to handle it, which can be very have a lot of impact on your cost. And if you only discover it during activation that, for example, a fiber is not available or a cable cannot be placed in a duct anymore. That's that's that's that's that's as an impact on your and your cost. So you need to avoid that at all times. And that's that's a very big challenge and can have a very big impact on your on your project. And lastly, a big challenge again, there will be time pressure. So you will need to go fast to create the designs while being cost effective while avoiding errors. So there is this huge time pressure for for planners to to get these designs ready to build. I think that's yeah, that's the reality today. That brings us to our third poll today. Yeah, so it's our third poll question. So again, trying to just see what what you see your challenges are at the moment in the design process now. And Jonas highlighted a number of those things related to cost effective designs, avoiding the errors, the time to create the design, obviously. And then that transition from detailed design to low level design. People a few more seconds to vote on those. Interesting to see the spread of results. Hey, thanks, everyone. I'll close the poll and share the results. Okay. Interesting that the time to create the design is not seen as one of the key things there, but a fairly even spread across the rest of the issues there. So that's quite interesting. Again, you know, some common themes that are coming across there that you know, ensuring that effectively everyone's saying you need to sort of be able to do all of these things because there's challenges across the board there. So being able to obviously put all that together and produce a solution that meets all of those challenges is one of the key aspects there. Yeah, it's interesting to see avoiding errors in the design. I think it's being recognized that this challenge has the biggest impact on your project or could have the most devastating effects. So it's good that it's being recognized as a very big challenge. So that's interesting to see. All right. So what I'm going to cover now is how we can address those challenges. And I think, yeah, first of all, we're seeing that a couple of these will be similar to the challenges that we saw in the planning stage. And the solutions for these or the ways to address it will be will be quite quite similar as well. So again, looking at automation automation to to save save time. But yeah, most importantly, avoid avoid errors that you can make within the design. So forgetting a connecting how to connect a certain fiber or I mean, foreseeing the wrong type of ducts. These are these are mistakes that can easily be made. And this is quite repetitive work and can be can be something that that, you know, with automation and save a lot of time and can avoid these these type of errors. So that's that's the first item is again looking at at automation. But yeah, within the design stage, you need to go in a much more detailed level, of course. So you go you go one step further on cover that. I'll cover that later. And again, the second point being jazz driven. So using jazz data. But again, in a very in a in a more detailed way within within the design stage, of course. So taking in field input as well, taking in more information from. Yeah, the the area that you want to cover certain obstacles that are in the way. Like like like fire hydrants or gas lines or anything else that can obstruct your your designs. Taking in this data or being able to take in this data at this stage is really. Yeah, is really important. And can help come up with designs that are that are feasible and that are that are ready to be built. So third point, detailed bill of material again, that's that's really important here. Having those insights and where the costs are coming from for your design, being able to analyze and maybe identify certain ways to reduce the costs even even further or and being able to compare different scenarios because you have those detailed cost insights. I think that's a that's something that that can be very helpful within the within the design stage to address those those challenges. And last point, having design control. Same as within the planning stage, but at a more detailed level. Like I said, there might be obstacles that that you need to address. You might get in information from the field that you need to take into account for your network design and having control on a very detailed level, being able to indicate where you want certain closures to be placed or how you want to do your routing where you want to cross the street. Having that control within the design stage is really, really important to get your designs ready for construction and avoiding going back from construction to design and getting the designs back. So that's those are similar things as we're seeing in a plan stage, planning stage, but at a more detailed level, of course. Second thing which will help to address challenges is within your automation, having using state of the art algorithms for clustering, for routing, because that will allow you to get to cost effective designs. Of course, if you're if the algorithms that are in place within your automated solution and there are support, then there's a lot of costs that that you're leaving on the or cost savings that you're leaving on the table. So you need to make sure that within clustering algorithms, within routing algorithms, that's state of the art that these are state of the art. And using as much details within these algorithms need to use as much details as as possible. So you need to use a lot of details, cost information and need to follow the the configured architecture. And that will help a lot to address these these challenges, of course. Then another point that I want to make is that when using using automation, you need to make sure that this goes up to a very detailed, detailed level. Definitely within within the design stage, you need to be able to hand over the designs to construction team to go out and build it. So the information that you need there needs to be connected up to up to a fiber level. So you need to know which fiber within a cable you need to connect to which other fiber within a cable to which splitter port it needs to be connected. Also, you know, which cable goes in which ducts, which micro ducts when you're using micro bundles using brown fiber, which micro ducts need to be connected where in the network. So having all of that detailed network connectivity information calculated in an automatic way. That's that's that's giving you all the information ready to be to be built. And it's allowing to it's making sure that you're avoiding errors. And that's not something that you that you need to do after the design automation tool is ready. No, this needs to be part of the of the design automation that it goes up to up to this level to create all of that connectivity information that it gives you the confidence that you can trace easily through the network as you're seeing in the screenshot as well. So that's that's giving you all the information that you're ready to build the network. And then last point on addressing challenges is, yeah, having the ability to work within a intuitive environment so that you can collaborate easily with with colleagues on a project. This is this is not yet single planner that's that's working on a design you're working as a team, you're working with people in the field. So having everything within a single environment so that you can and a SaaS platform so that you can collaborate easily. Go go go to the field easily to do surveys with native mobile apps as well, so that you're avoiding that swivel chairing, which is a point where you can introduce errors where it's slowing down, slowing down the workflow. And the platform that you're using, the environment that you're using is something that plays a key role in that. So you want to stay within single environment and execute all of the tasks that are needed within the workflow to come up with a feasible design. All right. So that was a presentation part where I wanted to address see yeah discuss how to address the different challenges that we're seeing within a planning and design stage. And now I want to go into a demo mode and show the IQ geo solution for planning and design automation. I'll do this in a couple of different steps. So the first step is to go and start a new design. So what you're seeing here is IQ geo manager environment running from the from the browser. And what am I what I'm doing here is I'm starting a new design. So this is a particular area where I want to create a network. I want to connect all the homes within within this area. And I'm just giving it a name, setting the state to designing. And as you're seeing at the top, I have some additional buildings, demand points that I'm leaving out of the design. So I'm just want I'm just interested in connecting the bottom part here. So this can be information that came from a earlier exercise within the project where you've decided how to roll out the network. And so what I'm doing is so I've selected my area. I've selected the rules that I want to use for for design. So you can have multiple yeah, multiple rules available that you can choose from that you can use to compare different different scenarios. So what you're seeing here is it's yeah, the purple dots. It's taken out the the the yeah, it's it's selected the the area that that I want to want to connect and just looking at those points for for creating a design. So all the other information is not. Yeah, I mean, all the other the one points that can be in the in the neighborhood will not be used for for for connection. So it's just looking at the single area here. It's also taking out street information that we will use to create new. Yeah, new trenching and for crossing the street could also include existing infrastructure. So if you have existing cables or existing pipes. And so what you're seeing is it's created this possible metric off of edges. It's created possible crossing locations and connectivity for all of the different demand points. And this is the data that goes into calculation and this gives you an overview of of how and the network can be can be routed. That's a first first step. Second item that I want to highlight is configuring configuring the rules. So yeah, ways to configure different architectures and I will. Pause this video a couple of different locations just to explain. So yeah, the the rules configurator of of our solution has a lot of different architectural options out of the box. What you're seeing here, for example, is the splitter settings. So we're using a centralized split in the distribution point one on 32 splitter. But this could also be a cascaded split where you have a splitter in the drop point and a splitter in the distribution point. So any type of splitter architecture, but also point to point architecture can be can be supported. So then what is really important to drive the automatic calculation to drive the algorithms is cost information and equipment information. So there's a lot of costs data that can go into our algorithm. So what you're seeing here is all the different types of equipment and you can expand this this even more if you're using different types of if you're using different types of cabinets, for example, or different types of manholes with different constraints, different costs. So this is all information that can go into the software. And can be considered for your design. And also civil work costs very similar. A lot of details can go in here. You can identify different surface types. For example, if you have that that information for for your area, this can be taken into account for for the routing of the of the network. So the cost of the existing infrastructure is, of course, cheaper, but you can have a difference between least infrastructure and infrastructure that you own yourself. So that's this can all go into our algorithms and into our software. And then for the different network layers, there's a number of configuration options on the cable deployments. For example, whether you're using a direct cable or a start topology or a tree branch topology. This is information that can that can go in here. Changing the capacity of a distribution point. There was a number of fibers or number of cables or number of homes that you can serve. This is this is all configurable out of the box. And specifying types of cables and its constraints and costs, whether it's an underground or aerial cable. What's the size of the different cables that you want to use on each layer? And yeah, if you want to keep spare capacity, for example, this is all information that can go in in in the rules. And the type of equipment that you want to use at the centroid. So at the point that serving a cabinet or a distribution area, which equipment needs to be placed there. And for each layer, this is this is configurable. All right, then next one is tweaking the input and doing doing the calculation. So with the input that was that was generated before this is this can all be manipulated by the user. So what I'm doing right here is the other software has created lead in to the street on the left. But I know the area is planner or I've received input from from the field. And I know that the lead in needs to go a different different way. So I can easily make that change to to the to the input data. And this will be considered for for the for the design. And then what I'm doing is I'm running a calculation right now. I'm just going to skip this forward about 40, 50 seconds. So, yeah, this is this is a minute that it took to to calculate this area, which is around 800, 800 demand points or 800 buildings within this area. So calculation is is yeah, rather quickly. So what it what it has done, it's determined. Yeah, the cabinet serving areas. So all these polygons that you're seeing, these are all being served by a single single point. It's determining all of the routing of the of the network as well. So that's what you're you're seeing as well. So all of the routing to connect all of the different demand points within my within my design. That's all automatically being being calculated by the by the software. And there's a lot of details in the in in this output, which I'll show in a following video. The first thing I also want to see is what I want to show is how you have control over the design. So. So this is the output of a design calculation, giving you these these polygon areas. And now as a planner, you can really go in and and make some decisions and fine tune the calculation without having to worry about. Yeah, redrawing all of the the cables, all of the routes, all of the ducts. That's all things that can be handled by by the software. So what I did right here is this point right here. I've excluded it from the. The top polygon and included it here. You're seeing before the calculation that there is a line going to this point. So it's being served from the stop polygon. If I now skip forward a minute. So after the calculation you're seeing. Yeah, this the line that you see here, that's just the street. This line here is now running from the bottom. So it's this point is being fed from the bottom now and all the cables, all the ducts are being updated with with this new routing information. So this is all handled by the by the software. Then next point is the bill of material that I want to show. So yeah, a bit of material that's automatically generated as well from the design. It gives you general information on the cost of the network. So like I see see here 802 customers are being served within my area. You see a general breakdown or high level breakdown of the cost over the different layers. But you're also getting a lot more detailed information. So you're seeing where yeah, how these costs are divided over civil works. Then for the drop. Yeah, how many drop boxes and what is this cost? Different cables and a feeder layer, for example. How are these influencing the cost and what's my total volume of equipment that I need to connect this this whole area? And also again going on in a more detailed level looking at every distribution point. So every cluster has its own cost as well of all the cables and the equipment and civil works that go into it. So this goes in a very detailed level, which allows you to do that that in depth analysis of the of the natural design. Yeah, and then the last part is. Yeah, showing you the level of detail that we that we go into. So with a calculation, it's generating a lot of connectivity information. So we go down on a fiber level with the connectivity. So what you're seeing here is for the single the mom points here. I just trace the network back to my central office and you're seeing which fiber cables it's going to, which splices, which splitters. It's all going to through. So on a very detailed level, this is all being automatically calculated using the rules that were that were configured. So you know that the connectivity is is correct is following the architecture and that there's no no errors in the in the design and that just everything is connected up to to each building each home. So that's something that you don't need to worry about anymore. All right. All right. That was everything. Yeah, for for planning and design parts. I'm going to hand it over to to James for to talk about what what comes next. All right. Thanks very much, Jonas. So, yes. So what comes next? So we'll look at I'll take you back to that network lifecycle. So obviously, now we've looked at the planning and design phase in some detail there with Jonas, and I'm just going to give you a very quick flavor of what we can do in the other phases of the network lifecycle. So obviously, we'll start with with construction. So one of the key things here that we see is that the need to be able to enable predictable network rollouts. And as I mentioned at right at the beginning, I talked about that transition between the different phases of the lifecycle. And this is a particularly key one from when we move from design to construction. So one of the key things that we can do here is based on the output of the design, we can automatically generate the tasks that are required to go and construct the network. And we can assign those to the different field teams that are going to be building the network. And we recognize that obviously, in many, many cases, this is typically outsourced to a build contractor. So our solution enables you to be able to bring the build contractor and use the same set of tool in so everyone's looking at the same information so they understand what they need to do. And as Jonas mentioned, we're able to use that in the field so that this is able to be updated in real time as the work is being completed, which all flows through to improving the status reporting and understanding the performance of the network build. And then ultimately, you know, when you close out the build process and finish off with those inspections and everything. So being able to flow that information through the construction phase. And then, of course, once you've built that network, you actually want to monetize it. So you want to maximize the revenue that you generate from that network. That was the whole point of building it in the first place. And depending on the nature of your business, obviously, if you sort of just do an FTTH and pass in homes, then that's fairly simple to activate them. That's what you design the network to do. But another revenue stream is the small to medium large businesses where you want to be able to handle the requests that you get in a very effective way. So you want to be able to generate those quotes, whether that's someone that's already on the network or whether that's a potential client that's off the network. You also want to understand, well, if I went down this other street, would I pick up some potential customers? So it might be a slightly more expensive build initially to serve this first customer, but longer term, I see a better revenue potential to do that. And you want to be able to generate priority target lists and visually see where those different potential customers are and the kind of revenue that you might realize from that. And of course, you want to be able to integrate that with your CRM system. So it's all about streamlining that process again. And then you've planned it, you've built it, you're selling it, and obviously you've got to operate it. And of course, nothing quite always goes according to plan. There will always be outages. There will be unforeseen events that you need to be able to deal with. And so what you want to be able to do is increase the efficiency of your operations team. So being able to give the teams in the field a single pane of glass, a view on the tablet of the network and other important information related to the network so that they're able to make decisions there and then. And so streamlining again the processes without having to call up to people in the office and understand how things are connected, where things should be. All of that sort of information that just gives them that situational awareness by bringing in lots of data together into one place. And of course, that can relate into workflow management systems where you get the ticket information to go and resolve outages, that kind of thing. And indeed, maybe that's triggering some follow up order activities directly from the device. So that it's again that seamless flow of information and process. So Jonas, do you want to? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, Jabs. So I just want to wrap up the session today with some key takeaways. So what I wanted to bring across is the other the power of automation for your planning for for using using automation in your planning stage as well to do very accurate cost estimations showing I wanted to show you as well how you can accelerate. Yeah, the network design stage using automation using tools that can. Yeah, that can focus on the nitty gritty work, the repetitive tasks. So see how other ways to accelerate that that stage. So the third key takeaway is that there's a huge potential to reduce the cost to build the network if you're using smart automation, if you're using. Yeah, if the software solution has algorithms in place, that's using very detailed cost information and can take into account a lot of different types of data. So one example that I gave was existing infrastructure and taking into account the capacity of existing infrastructure that's that's that's always to reduce the cost to build. I think the third part, the last point is, yeah, having the ability to report and collaborate across teams is really. And having that full integrated end to end workflow are always to avoid swivel sharing and make sure that you get a better network in the end and accelerate that complete end to end workflow. So I hope I was able to bring that all of this across. And with that, yeah, the presentation part is done. I want to thank all of you. And I think we still have some time for questions. Thanks, Jonas and James. Over to you, Crawford. I think I've been seeing quite a few questions come in. So I'll let you go through those with James and Jonas. Yeah, thanks, Kelly. We have had quite a few. So we want to make sure we'll give everyone a little bit of time to transition to your next stage of your day. But we'll answer what we can. James, first question is, how configurable is the network architecture? For example, can you support ring architecture or redundant scenarios? I think I'll take that one. Yeah. So I've talked about the architectures or the cable deployments methods quite briefly. So whether you have a tree and branch or a start topology. Ring topology, the redundant scenarios is also something that we support, whether it's a closed ring or open ring. Those are supported in the software with a lot of different options when it comes to branching as well on your rig. So those are supported and you have a lot of control with those as well. So you can generate them automatically or you can manually draw them very easily. And yet not having to worry about the splicing, the cable selection, duct selection, but just drawing high level the routes for ring topology. And then software takes care of the rest. So that's definitely something that is supported. Great. Thank you. The next question is, this looks like a desktop solution. So how can this be used in the field? Yeah, I'll pick that one up. So obviously what Jovis has been showing is primarily working with it in the office, but actually what you see you're able to take out into the field and be able to make changes in the field. So as the designer, you can go out in the field and you can avoid the need to capture scribbles on post-it notes and all that kind of thing. You can actually capture the notes. You can make changes directly to some of the input data within that design process. So again, accelerating and optimizing the process. So absolutely you can take the solution out into the field and have that seamless transition between the office and the field. Great. Thank you. Our next question is for your current customers using the ComSoft planning and design solution. Where are they seeing, what areas are they seeing the greatest savings and what's the scope of those savings? Well, quickly, I can give a quick answer to that. So the automation side of things, we see that being as much as 90% in terms of speeding the process up. And again, that's back to that point around helping the planner, helping the designer to use their intelligence and just removing the repetitive mundane tasks. So they don't have to do that. And they can let the system do that heavy lifting, but they can really apply their intelligence into the process. And then the other key area would be on the build side of things. So that can be up to 10%. Now, while that's a much smaller percentage, that could actually represent a very significant dollar or euro value. Obviously, a build out is many millions of dollars or euros. So, you know, 10% of that is still a considerable sum. So that's the various sorts of levels of savings that we've seen from our customers. Okay, thank you. Next question is, when you're planning networks across the country using ComSoft, how do you track progress the engineering team is making across all of those projects? Do you want me to? Yeah, I think you can give a start to an answer. So, yeah, what you've what you've seen in the browser browser environment, I started a new design. So this is, yeah, if you're you're working within a single environment and you have multiple planners working on designs, these are all accessible from within the same environment and same same platform. So it's not isolated or siloed within the local desktop environment. So that's that's a huge benefit of the of the solution is that you have an overview of the different designs that are that are being that are being done. I don't know, James, if you want to add anything else. Yes, I was just going to say, you know, I talked about the construction phase and part of our solution around construction management takes that through from the design phase into that construction phase. So very simply, everything has a status and we can generate work tickets against those specific assets. And as they're constructed, the field teams can update their status. So you can then see, you know, at a glance, how things are progressing across across your footprint. And indeed, that's how some of our customers, that's exactly what they're doing with the flow through from design into construction. Great, thanks. I think we have time for probably one more. So that that one is one of the big challenges in the planning stage is to develop a quick and accurate preliminary design to apply for permits. How does your solution help to achieve that? Yeah, so I think for within the planning stage, I think we've shown that the design that comes out of the of the software is already quite detailed, even within a planning stage, so you know where you will do trenching, where you will use aerial. So you have a lot of information on where you need to request, you request permits and that detailed information within the bill of materials. So all the information I think you need within that stage is is available with the software. So it's definitely and we have we have customers that use it within that that stage as well. And use use a solution there for those for those initial initial stages. And I think the advantage of the solution is that, you know, once you've had, you know, once permits are approved, and you need to continue and you might need to do some need to do some small adjustments adjustments to the design. And those can be very easily done. Like I've shown there's a lot of control in the design. And so you can take it further from planning to design to construction quite easily with with the solution. So, yeah, I think that's definitely something that we that we support. And I think that. Yeah, I think so. Great. Thanks, Jonas. We're just a couple of minutes from the top of the hour. So we will follow up individually with all of the other outstanding questions. And so I will turn it over to Kelly to close. Thanks, Crawford. Just to say thank you to everyone for taking the time to join us today. And thank you to our host, James and Jonas. A recorded version of this webinar will be available for you to view on demand and share with any of your colleagues that this might be of interest to. And I'll make sure you get the link to that later today. Thanks, everyone. Thanks, Mark. Thank you.