Fibre Optic Works
Advanced Telecommunications GIS
What is Fibre Optic Works (FOW)?
Intergraph G/Technology Fibre Optic Works is an advanced telecommunications GIS that provides location-based information and capabilities that enhance the complete life cycle of civil infrastructure and Fibre network management – from design and construction through maintenance and operations. It supports geospatial infrastructure management needs throughout the enterprise, from back office to the field.
Advanced Editing
Intergraph G/Technology delivers CAD capabilities within the GIS environment. Replacing separate tools, it improves design and documentation efficiency while removing latency and errors from network records. The smart editing tools use rules to drive semi-automated placement with integral data validation, further enhancing the speed and quality of data capture. They expedite the capture of complex graphical features and ensure symbology conforms to corporate standards. At the same time, rules-based validation enforces corporate design practice and engineering standards, while also checking the geospatial elements are valid and topologically clean.
The combined effect boosts efficiency, provides higher-quality data, and expedites posting to the master data by reducing the need for post-capture data validation and clean-up.
Rich Telecoms Model
Fibre Optic Works provides a rich and highly functional connected telecoms model that can be used out of the box or be configured to operator-specific requirements. It accommodates the connectivity of the complete network from any terminating device to the inside plant (ISP) termination. It addresses the inventory and connectivity of Fibre, copper, equipment components, and the civils network – all within a single database. The model also supports coordination and integration with OSS/NRM platforms for faster operation and enhanced capabilities.
Engineering Life Cycles
As a module of Intergraph G/Technology, Fibre Optic Works provides the rich version management, analysis, tracking, and reporting capabilities needed to model and manage engineering life cycles, including coordination with other business platforms, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), work and asset management system (WAMS), and field operations.
The ability to maintain alternate versions, combined with design validation and estimation, enables comparative assessments of designs, both technically and financially. This can be achieved standalone or, as is more common in large networks, via interaction with other business systems involved in managing change to the network.
Enterprise Scalability
Intergraph G/Technology has been proven in production environments – from tens to thousands of connected users in businesses ranging from local to multinational operation. In addition to its scalable architecture, G/Technology also helps establish consistency and teamwork, for example, by applying corporate design practices and standards through work processes and business rules. It also enables a business to operate as a single virtual environment across multiple sites to spread work across teams to balance loads and optimize utilization. This flexibility also enables the business to scale-up for large projects, either by focusing multiple teams on a project or providing secure access to service delivery partners and contractors – again while ensuring adherence to corporate standards and practices.
SIRO GIS Solution Case Study
In 2014, SIRO identified a need for an integration GIS System to facilitate the speedy rollout of their fibre-to-the-building network and the project planning sessions with IMGS commenced.
G/Technology Fibre Optics
Bell Canada Designs and Manages Fiber Networks with Intergraph G/Technology Fiber Optic Works