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Geospatial Technology in

Telecom Network Infrastructure Management

Milind Deshpande

Reliance Jio Infocomm

GeoSmart Asia 2017

24th August 2017

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Contents

Telecom Business Characteristics

How GIS Technology meets industry challenges?

Before you set out …

Geospatial Technology in FTTx Network Plan-to-Build Architecture & Design Principles

Role of Geospatial Platform

Business Planning

Plan to Build

As-Built Capture

Provisioning and Service Fulfillment

Network O & M

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Telecom Business Characteristics

Challenges:

Peculiar Business Requirements

• Green-field and Brown-field installations co-exist

• Incremental network build for Service Fulfillment - Routine business

• Assets in Public Domain – “where” is an extremely important question

• Highly competitive – Customer Satisfaction, Sales & Marketing very important

Process Oriented industry

• Several Complex, Inter-dependent work processes

• Involvement of multiple stake-holders

Opportunities: Hi-Tech Industry

Several IT Systems and software for various purposes

First-adapter of technology

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GIS meets Mobile Network P2B Challenges

Define AOI

BUSINESS

Release

Project Scope

PMO

Route &

Facility

Planning –

Engineering

WIRELINE

RF Planning

LTE PROJECTS

IFC & As-Built

CONSTRCUTION

Create Physical

Inventory

ISP

Inventory

Transfer and

Service Order

Management

GIS & OSS

Plan to Build

RFS

Manage

Roll-out

DEPLOYMENT

Sites & Links

Tracing

ALL

Commissioning

Proactive

Tracking

CRM

Video Wall

NOC OPERATIONS

Coverage

Check

ALL

Operations Activity

Stake-Holder

Legend

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FTTx Network P2B Challenges

Collect Market Data

and Define AOI

BUSINESS

Design & Engineer

N/W

NETWORK

Purchase Matl. &

Issue Contracts

PROCUREMENT

Activity

Stake-Holder FTTx Plan to Build

Legend

Construct &

Update As-Built

CONSTRUCTION

Create Physical

Inventory

NETWORK ISP

Inventory Transfer

and Service Order

Management

GIS & OSS

Manage

Roll-out

DEPLOYMENT

Sites & Links Tracing

ALL

Commissioning

Proactive Tracking

CRM / BSS

Video Wall

NOC OPERATIONS

Coverage Check

ALL

Operations

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Before You Set Out…

Process Definition

Platform Selection Organisation

Secure Management Commitment & Budget

Plan in detail

Return on Investment

Identify Quick-Wins

Technical Execution

Project Management & Project Control

Finalize Process, Platform and Organisation iteratively

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Geospatial Technology in

FTTx Network Plan To Build

Architectural & Design Principles

Define Data Masters / Systems of Records (SOR)

Decide Workflow and BPM Systems

Decide Dashboard / Analytics Platform

Decide Systems of Interaction (SOI) and UX

Define Integration Requirements between various SORs and SOIs

Define Integration Architecture – SOA

Design Individual System / Components

Build, Test and Deploy Incrementally

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FTTx Workflow: GIS-NE Role

Mobile Design

Survey App

Desktop Design 3

Building Survey M

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ile G

IS

Buildings (Business Data) 1

GIS

Network Plan

Desktop GIS

2 Desktop

Design

GIS I/P

Route Feasibility in GIS

Feasibility I/P 4

Network

Engineer

Final Design 5

AsBuilt 10

Network

Inventory

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RFS Buildings 12

AsBuilt 9

Mobile As-Built

Survey App

Final

Design

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BOQ SOQ 7

6 Data Validation

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Business Planning &

Project Management

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Mobile App for Business Potential Survey

<< Edit Existing / Draw

New Buildings on

Mobile App

Update Building Attributes

with Simple UI on Mobile >>

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Web-based Business Planning – Scope / Area of Interest and Priorities

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Project Progress Monitoring

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FTTx Network Planning

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Scope Area for FTTx Planning

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Network Map Issued For Construction

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FTTx Network Build

Web App for Assigning Field Work

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Field Engineer’s View –Tasks at DSA level with map view

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Capture Progress, As-Built, Materials Consumption and QA

Quality check updation

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Web App – “Ready for Service” Building Viewer

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Benefits & ROI in Network Plan-to-Build

Qualitative Benefit Factors allowing RoI

Controlled process implementation Workflow; Repeatable, Accurate, Real-time

Data; Optimal Project Organisation

Real-world Planning from office and Construct

– as – Planned

No rework, shortest route used, reduction in

cell sites – 3% project cost

As-Built Capture Minimal efforts, Accurate; improved future

planning; Infra sharing

Data Flow-through to OSS and O&M No data entry at OSS, Service Order w/flow,

Quick roll-out and Reduced MTTR

Effective Project Management Schedule improvement – 1% project cost

Geographical Asset Management Inventory Lifecycle Management

Warranty and spares management

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3. Provisioning & Service

Fulfillment

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OSS Integration

NetworkEngineer™

Performance

Management

Service

Management

MDM

Physical

Inventory

Building

Status

Physical

Inventory

Map

Services

Outage

Map Event Links

Inventory

Status

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Benefits & ROI in OSS Integration

Qualitative Benefit Factors allowing RoI

Master Physical Inventory & Link Data Single truth – alarms correlate to location

Data flow-through and re-use 2 mil equipment records entry saved

Avoid redundant data entry One-time data entry in SAP, HP-SM, TeMIP

Effective logical inventory management Quick service provisioning

Fault Localisation Substantially reduced MTTR

Effective Network Monitoring Single, Geographic view in NOC

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4. Network O&M

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NOC Display Wall

RFS Building and Network Trace for O&M on Mobile

• In Service FTTx Network with Connected Buildings

• Connected Buildings with Network Equipment

• Details of Selected Building

• Equipment at Selected Location

• Equipment Details

• Network Trace

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OFC Fault Locator - Mobile App

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Benefits & ROI in Network O & M

Qualitative Benefit Factors allowing RoI

Effective N/W Monitoring Quick identification of faulty network

Utility Management Improved operational efficiency up to 5%

Equipment Maintenance History Warranty & Service Management in SAP

Facility Planning Retrieval of plans, Space Management

Fault Localisation Reduced MTTR

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Thank You !!!