Centralized Planning, Operation and Management of Passive Inside and Outside Plant Infrastructure
Data volumes are increasing, and network traffic is growing. These are the realities of the digital age. To keep up, service providers are scrambling to roll out more fiber and introduce new technologies. The result is increasing network complexity. Millions of physical assets, logical resources and connections in the cable network must be managed. Doing so is difficult but essential, as these networks are the foundation for delivering the services that keep businesses operational.
IT is spreading into all areas of life as both residential and business customers consume and generate massive amounts of data. Network operators must ensure their fiber-optic networks in the transport and mobile fronthaul and backhaul arena, FTTx infrastructures in access networks, and HFC networks can keep pace with traffic. They are therefore laying more fiber, connecting more mobile sites to fiber, and extending fiber closer to end users.
FNT Cable and Outside Plant Management makes it possible to efficiently operate complex passive network infrastructures. It gives full transparency across the network to document, plan and manage any inside and outside plant cable network infrastructure. From a service assurance perspective, this is the best defense against service interruption. From a planning perspective, it ensures changes are based on accurate as-built documentation and that all changes are reflected in a centralized management system.
A complete solution for managing your wired infrastructure
Using FNT Cable and Outside Plant Management and Telco Active Inventory solutions together enables management of the complete collection of network and service resources of an active telco transport network. All the hierarchically structured services and paths in FNT Telco Active Inventory can be assigned to the appropriate underlying resources in FNT Cable and Outside Plant Management.
FNT GeoMaps for Cable and Outside Plant Management
FNT GeoMaps provides expanded functionality to ensure cable networks are optimized to handle the demands of the digital world. It combines FNT’s Cable and Outside Plant Management solution with Esri’s geospatial tools. The result is fully integrated GIS capability that enables more knowledge-based decisions about critical infrastructure.
Use Cases
Major Benefits
- Consistent documentation and planning supported by auto-routing
- Automatic creation of work orders for field execution of planned tasks
- Documentation is automatically updated as a result of planning
- Full transparency across passive inside and outside plant resources
- Schematic views as well as GIS based graphical network visualization
- Improved efficiency in day-to-day operations supported by end-to-end signal tracing
- Reduced mean time to repair resulting in greater customer satisfaction
- Optimized costs and process times
- Reduced OPEX
- Better management of infrastructure capacities and available resources
- Full transparency on capacity utilization across the network
- Reduction of CAPEX
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