Telcordia Network Engineer

Andrius Petrauskas
Project Manager

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A geospatial network management system

designed for the communications industry
industry

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 Is the most comprehensive geospatial solution for the design and
management of both inside and outside physical network

Key Functions
Single Network Work Order Extensive Data
View Management Model

Provides tools to create, Sophisticated project Is the foundation for the

document and manage an management is
end-to-end model of the accomplished for each
network elements project from planning to
build-out. Tasks, materials,
resources, duration and cost
flexibility and functionality of
the system. Business rules,
objects and reference data
enables you to model your
business processes

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The Window to your Communications Network Data and Intelligent
Network Diagrams

Schem atic
Analyst
Assistant

Provides a quick view of the Works with ESRI ArcSchematic

Network Engineer data that
is beneficial to stakeholders
for decision-analysis work
order approval, reporting
and data sharing
to generate schematic views of
the network upon demand
offering high level diagrams; low
level diagrams; splice closure
diagrams and duct occupancy
diagrams
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Business Process

Engineering Work Order As-built updates

Bill of Materials
Report

Network Engineer

Common Data Model

Network Planning Common (ESRI) GIS Service Assurance

Network
Data
Inventory Manager Service Provisioning
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Service Activation
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Product Functionality

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Cabling insta llations re quire reading e lectrical or fiber sc hematics (logical
dia grams). These physica l re presentations of the ca bling are often difficult
to interpret.

Providers m ust c ontinually ask :

Where are cable runs now?
Where are the connections ?
Where are all the ass ociate d references ?

Design engineering and pr oject mana gement

is com plex com plicated by budget constraints
and time sens itivities .

Project engineers spe nd substa ntia l am ounts

of time doing records research - requir ing
engineers to manually sift through reams of
information - often outdated or incorrect.

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 A Geospatial Network Management System

Provides answers to the following questions

Where are my
Facilities
Customers
Properties
Faults
Alarms
Signal Strengths
Available Capacities

And How Are They Related?

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 A Geospatial Network Management System

Enables the efficie nt allocation of

people and resources
Project mana gers adhere to budget
constraints thr ough the ma nageme nt of
their OSP assets
Managers can sc hedule manpower,
generate status re ports , a nd assemble
bus iness intelligence
Engineers work m ore effectively
Engineers can see the best options for
running cable in terms of available
buildings
and routes - along with exact locations
of outside plant terminals

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Different ways to view/analyze data

Tabular View
Map View
Schematic View
Rack View
Cross Section View
Floor Plan View

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Physical Network Management

Outside plant assets (physical

network inventory) can include:
devices, tracks, ducts, pipes/bore s,
cables, coil/over-lengths, manholes,
fiber, splices, di stribution frames,
poles and other aerial and
underground items as well as
connectivity and topology
information

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Outside Plant Management

Complete Outside Plant management tools for creating, placing,

and editing network spans, structures, transmedia, and
equipment.

All network eleme nts a nd

network-relate d str uctures are
available for v isua lization,
analysis , reporting, bill-of-
materials generation, and ma p
and map book pr oduction.

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Inside Plant Management

Use the ISP management

feature to document and
associate inventory with a
network structure - such
as a central office, an
equipment vault, or a
cabinet

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Complete e diting functions are provide d

to ma nage netw ork connectivity
Port le vel connectivity mana gement
Interc onnection of e quipme nt-to-
equipme nt
Connection of e quipme nt to cable
Connection of ca ble to splice c los ure

Connections Editor
Equipment-to-Equipment

The connection is c omm on between

all views of the data.
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Circuit documentation provides

detailed views of the
interconnected cables and
equipment comprising various
network switch-to-switch circuits

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Fault trace works
in tandem with
OTDR for rapid
network
troubleshooting

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Component Plan

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This detailed schematic shows the port
level connections supporting the
metropolitan ring. The ring is highlighted on
the map canvas in red, with the landbase
layers turned off for easyNetw
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This Splice Schematic reflects the four fiber
cables spliced at this point. Strand
connections are currently un-grouped,
however, for detailed splices, the strands
can be grouped for easier viewing as
shown on the following slide.
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A GIS Foundation
(A Geospatial Representation)
Mapping
Database
Marketing Analysis
Planning Functions

Engineering Tools
(Modeling Telecom Data)
Facilities Design
Workbook Plots
Reports BOM, Tracing,
Loop Makeup

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Product Architecture

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Network Network Engineer Clients
Engineer Analyst
Field GIS Web Browser

Fully netw orked, and integrate d Desktop GIS

Client-server
Ope n, scalable arc hitecture

Eas y-to-use desktop interfaces

De velope d using VB and C++
Built on the industr y lea ding ArcSDE ArcIMS Services
ESRI Arc GIS technology

Oracle
Oracle Files Data
DBMS

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