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Leveraging GIS for environmental sustainability: Reducing impacts and costs
Nov 13, 2023 5:07:13 PM
  • Fiber network management
  • Telecom technologies
  • GIS
  • Fiber deployment

Leveraging GIS for environmental sustainability: Reducing impacts and costs

Businesses globally are striving to reduce their ecological footprint and optimize resources, and telecom network operators are no exception.1 However, in today’s rapidly changing landscape, it can be especially difficult to deploy optimal networks in a timely manner that also account for varying environmental factors including avoiding hazards, protecting biodiversity, and minimizing impact. By integrating geographic information systems (GIS) into their processes, telcos can make more informed decisions by synthesizing and visualizing complex data in a spatial context.

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Navigating the network lifecycle: Open for sale
Oct 30, 2023 8:00:00 AM
  • Telecom technologies
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers
  • 3-GIS | Web
  • Fiber deployment

Navigating the network lifecycle: Open for sale

After planning, engineering, field verification, and construction, it was finally time to help our client open for service! Success required seamless coordination across all aspects of our operations, from marketing strategies to customer installations. 

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Navigating the network lifecycle: Construction
Oct 16, 2023 8:00:00 AM
  • Fiber network construction
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers
  • 3-GIS | Web
  • Fiber deployment

Navigating the network lifecycle: Construction

Once we traversed the realms of planning, engineering, and field verification, we were ready to start construction.  This was our biggest challenge. Construction was the moment where theory met reality, and we were determined to turn our vision into tangible infrastructure. However, the path ahead was riddled with obstacles and divergent opinions, particularly when it came to meeting the needs of the contractor community and ensuring swift progress. 

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Navigating the network lifecycle: Field verification
Sep 15, 2023 4:46:07 PM
  • Fiber network management
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers
  • Fiber deployment

Navigating the network lifecycle: Field verification

The network lifecycle is a complex and interconnected process, with each step building upon the previous one. We've explored the planning and engineering phases, uncovering the challenges and strategies involved in our endeavor to support The West Coast Company (WCC) in their nationwide fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout. Now it's time to dive into field verification.

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Navigating the network lifecycle: Engineering
Sep 5, 2023 3:19:28 PM
  • Fiber network management
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers
  • Fiber deployment

Navigating the network lifecycle: Engineering

Welcome to part three of our blog series detailing the highs and lows of the network lifecycle. In the first installment, I shared my experiences supporting a nationwide fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout with the West Coast Company (WCC). While, in the second installment, I dove into the significance of strategic planning. 

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Navigating the network lifecycle: Planning
Aug 4, 2023 4:35:08 PM
  • Fiber network management
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers
  • Fiber deployment

Navigating the network lifecycle: Planning

Welcome back to our blog series on the journey of building fiber networks from the ground up. In the first installment, I shared the whirlwind beginning of our endeavor to support The West Coast Company (WCC) in their nationwide fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout. Today, we delve into a critical phase of the network lifecycle: planning.

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Navigating the network lifecycle: An introduction
Jul 21, 2023 5:24:42 PM
  • Fiber network management
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers

Navigating the network lifecycle: An introduction

For those of you that have been in the telecom industry for some time, the following story will more than likely resonate with your own experience. I was introduced to 3-GIS through one of its owners, Tom Counts, and was intrigued with the niche that they had built for themselves specifically in the fiber market. 

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Shift in GIS technology: Reimagining the transactional model
Jul 7, 2023 10:23:53 AM
  • Fiber network management
  • Telecom technologies
  • GIS
  • Communications service providers

Shift in GIS technology: Reimagining the transactional model

If you work for a telco and have needed to track your network assets in a centralized way, you may have used Ericsson Network Engineer (ENE) or similar software solution. ENE and many other solutions that rely on Esri technology use geodatabase versioning technology to manage transactions. Versioning facilitates long transactions by allowing editors to work isolated within their own version of the geodatabase and across multiple editing sessions.

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