The Two Investments That Will Define Your Network's Future – Itechlance It Delivers Both

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Networks are presenting a double whammy for telecom, and changing how operators look at infrastructure priorities. On the other hand, legacy data, from analogue records and paper drawings to scanned documents and unstructured spreadsheets representing decades of network history, are increasingly becoming an operational burden that cannot be effectively accessed, analysed or integrated with a modern network management system. On the other side, the growing global need for high speed fibre connectivity is driving a need to quickly and massively design and roll out fibre-to-the-home, fibre-to-the-premises, and fibre-to-the-building networks, which are more demanding than legacy engineering networks.

But tackling both at once – the challenge of turning these legacy records into structured assets ready for the digital world, as well as designing the fibre network that will be able to deliver tomorrow's broadband needs – demands specific skills that relatively few organisations can truly claim to have.

Digitization of Telecommunication Networks – The Foundation for Digital Operations

Analogue legacy network ...
... records are not only cumbersome but also threatening. Safety incidents, network outages and regulatory implications are possible risks for operators when the ability to accurately locate underground assets prior to excavation is not available. Without reliable asset information for capacity planning, people make sub-optimal decisions that negatively impact network performance and invest in the wrong way.

iTechLance IT offers a complete solution for Digitization of Telecommunication Network, which systematically tackles this challenge. The result of our Digitization of Telecommunication Network programme is a tidy, complete, accurate and fully structured digital record of the network, integrated into the client's preferred GIS or asset management platform, ready to feed all operational and planning processes that rely upon accurate network data.

FTTx Network Design – Building the Broadband Future

One of the most complicated and expensive engineering programmes for any telecoms operator is the deployment of FTTx infrastructure. All fibre routes need to be planned carefully for every metre. Every splice point, cabinet, distribution point and customer connection needs to be engineered such that it fits into the rest of the system and extends the system.

iTechLance IT can provide expert FTTx Network Design services to satisfy all of these requirements — from the feasibility of the route to the design of the network, to detailed construction drawings, equipment specifications, civil work schedules and as-built documentation for FTTx deployments.

The members of our FTTx Network Design team have built up years of experience in FTTH, FTTP, FTTC and FTTB network design, covering the different design principles, equipment selection criteria and construction methods for each of the deployment types. We closely coordinate with network planning, engineering and programme delivery teams of our clients to create a technically optimal, commercially efficient and deployable design solution within the constraints of each programme environment.