Rolta Geospatial Fusion for Telecommunications

Telecommunication technology has been one of the key factors facilitating the creation of a global economy; it has helped entities located in different geographies to collaborate and do business in real-time.

Telecommunication companies today are tied to geography more closely than any other business. The infrastructure that delivers telecom services is linked directly to the location of each customer and this, along with network management, forms a crucial element in overall operations, enabling companies to provide trouble-free service to their customers. Geospatial technologies help companies worldwide address these challenges in a competitive environment, and give them an advantage in the marketplace.

Telecommunication Industry Challenges

The ability to geospatially inventory and manage all infrastructure and dynamic telecom network components is obviously critical.  Companies must ensure that different technologies co-exist and that engineering, business and operational support systems are integrated across the enterprise if they wish to achieve the following objectives:

• Contain operational costs
• Integrate newly deployed systems with existing legacy systems
• Improve business processes
• Retain the existing customer base and provide enhanced services
• Expand into new service opportunities
• React immediately to the need to deploy new, network-sensitive technologies

The Problem Areas

• Delays in service provisioning and poor capacity utilization
• High rate of customer attrition and churn because of slow response to network faults
• Unwarranted capital expenditure on capacity/ infrastructure, stemming from insufficient  data or knowledge of the existing network
• Geographically dispersed operations and systems

Rolta Solutions

Rolta’s Geospatial Fusion is a key enabling technology environment of integrated systems. It enables systems to cooperate seamlessly to plan, design, construct, operate and maintain a communications provider’s network.

The USP of Rolta’s Geospatial Fusion solution is an unprecedented openness that empowers the entire system by making facility information directly available to relevant corporate systems and users throughout the enterprise. It acts as an enabling engine for decision support within an enterprise workflow and is designed with industry-specific functionality, representing the best practices of communication companies.

Key Features

The key feature of Geospatial Fusion is a single `geo-centric’ interface that links all information stories, reports, and documents across technologies and platforms and produces them visually on a map through an uncomplicated user interface. It maximizes deployment flexibility by making this interface web-based. Other features include:

• Attribute-based security
• Intuitive, no programming, easily configurable
• Multiple language support
• Links multiple data sources
• Links to any web page or application
• Customizable user interface

Geospatial Communication Operations Support System

Rolta’s Geospatial Operations Support solution enables communication companies to design and maintain a complete telecommunications network model, including civil, fiber, and copper components. It has the ability to analyze the model in a variety of ways, distribute information as needed, and interact with a variety of enterprise systems.

Key Features

This solution enables telecommunication companies to design and maintain a complete network model, providing a seamless workflow among business processes that deal with provisioning and sustaining a delivery network. Other features include:

• Storage in an open format of complete database of outside plant telecom network, associated network components and maps/ drawings
• Physical area map management (Landbase)
• Duct management
• Fiber and copper network management
• Comprehensive multi-state modelling and analysis
• `What if’ planning and pricing
• Bill of quantities
• Field data collection
• Work prints and reports

Benefits

In a deregulated environment, improving customer service and reducing costs through better workflows and fault restoration give telecom companies a clear competitive advantage. Benefits include:

• Integrated systems allow engineers to analyze transmission characteristics before it is built and to create a report of every item of plant that is connected
• It enables operational savings through improved efficiencies that result in direct overhead reductions or network utilization improvements that reduce capital expenditure
• Improvements in the efficiency of work processes and support systems, which have a direct impact on customer service
• The ability to react to new service opportunities and optimize network utilization
• Enables service providers respond quickly to maintenance situations