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In today’s hyper-connected world, telecommunications networks are the backbone of our daily lives. Whether making a phone call, getting real-time critical information about weather or emergencies, streaming a video, or sending an email, we rely on these networks to keep us connected. Behind the scenes, there is a complex function of planning and design that goes into designing, creating, and maintaining these networks, and this is where Enghouse steps in with its groundbreaking GIS-based solutions.
The Challenges of Telecom Planning and Design
Telecommunications planning and design have always been challenging endeavors. With the ever-growing demand for faster and more reliable networks, telecom companies face numerous hurdles:
Data Overload: Managing an extensive legacy and next-generation network infrastructure generates an enormous amount of data, including CAD drawings, site survey data, redlines, as-built information, and customer data. Keeping track of all these assets can be overwhelming.
Network Complexity: Telecommunications networks contain various technologies, including fiber, copper, COAX, FWA, and microwave interconnections. Each element has unique characteristics, making it essential to have specialised tools for network design.
Collaboration: Effective collaboration among different teams responsible for network planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance is crucial. Siloed information and a lack of real-time data can hinder service quality and availability.
Enghouse GIS Solutions: The Game Changer
Enghouse offers a suite of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based solutions that address these challenges head-on, providing telecom companies with the tools they need to streamline their operations:
- AutoCAD or Excel Users: If you find yourself buried under a pile of CAD drawings and Excel spreadsheets, you also find it’s easy to get lost in the details and overlook the bigger picture, missing crucial connections amongst the avalanche of files. Maintaining these static files becomes exponentially difficult when sharing network data files with other business teams, integrating site survey data, redlines, as-built information, and customer information into a unified dataset.
- Enghouse provides a GIS-based network planning and design solution that serves as a comprehensive, centralised hub for your current and future network plans, ensuring a single source of truth.Enghouse GIS connects all your network teams based on their role in the network lifecycle, including planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. With desktop, web-based, and mobile interfaces, field teams can collaborate with the network engineering and construction teams on the system design with the accuracy of GIS built into each record. Easily import your existing CAD and Excel files into our solution and combine them with timesaving, powerful features like real-time optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) results and network alarms in a single display.
- Google Earth Users: While Google Earth is a handy mapping tool, you might need more network design tools with specific functions to govern fiber, copper, COAX, FWA, and even microwave interconnections. For example, Google can show a map line representing a fiber connection. Still, it may not be able to offer you attributes of that specific fiber, including signal loss characteristics, customers assigned to each strand, and splice information.
- Enghouse provides a GIS-based solution with a similar GUI to Google Earth but with all the network planning and design tools included. Most importantly, our solution has powerful features such as network traces to show all active connections, all possible connections, all available ports, and even customers impacted in ‘what if’ scenarios. We create a bill of materials on network designs with the push of a button, which can be shared online with construction and site survey teams through web-based and mobile interfaces.
- Esri Users: If you are using Esri for telecommunications planning and design, you might need the actual network design tools with specific functions to govern fiber, copper, COAX, FWA, and microwave interconnections. Esri is a powerful GIS solution with many uses for geographical, political, environmental, and even cultural applications. Still, it doesn’t come with a comprehensive suite of network management and design tools needed to plan, design, roll out, and maintain a legacy or next-generation fiber network.
- Enghouse provides a solution based on Esri, and you can leverage your existing Esri licenses or purchase them from us. Our network planning and design plug-in offers a complete design studio for your network’s copper, COAX, fiber, and even structures. We firmly believe that an Esri-based solution is the best and most potent since it combines all your data into a single view accessible by each team participating in the network lifecycle. Most importantly, our solution has powerful features such as network traces to show all active connections, all possible connections, all available ports, and even customers impacted in ‘what if’ scenarios.
Transform your Telecom Operations
Telecommunications planning and design are evolving rapidly to meet the demands of the digital age. Enghouse’s GIS-based solutions empower telecom companies to navigate network management complexities easily. From AutoCAD, Excel, and Google Earth users to those relying on Esri, Enghouse offers comprehensive solutions that transform how networks are planned and designed.
Enghouse is leading the way in revolutionizing telecom planning and design in a world where connectivity is paramount. Stay ahead of the curve and discover the power of Enghouse GIS solutions for your telecommunications needs.
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