TelcoGIS

Operations Support System

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Contents
Market needs TelcoGIS: overview

Sample web site implementation

Reference cases

Market needs

The need for a GIS

The support of a GIS (Geographical Information System) is fundamental along almost the entire Life-Cycle of a network initiative.

TelcoGIS: overview

Operations support system

TelcoGIS web-based integrated GIS is the engine of an OSS framework, tailored to support operators addressing key operational needs in multiple areas.
Business and strategic network planning Network planning and implementation (e.g. network layout and inventory)

Marketing, sales and commercial planning

Customer provisioning (e.g. coverage check) Quality assurance

Network optimization and maintenance (e.g. capacity planning and test drive support)

Architecture Functional overview

Engines Map Server Business & Strategic Network Planning Marketing, Sales & Commercial Planning Network Planning & Implementation

Enterprise Portal
Portlets

GIS Data

Data Base Vector Data

File System Raster Data

Quality Assurance

Network Optimization & Maintenance

API

Integration With Other Systems 7

API

Customer Provisioning

State-of-the-art implementation
Multi-tier Framework implemented with a SOA approach Java Enterprise Edition 5 technologies
Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 Java Persistence API JavaServer Faces

Deployable with the highest levels of reliability and efficiency of use, including clustering, load balancing, and transparent fail-over Graphic User Interface implemented with standard Portlet technology All key functions accessible through standard APIs
Web Services (WSDL, SOAP) Java RMI

Natively integrable with Sun OpenSSO Enterprise to achieve advanced, flexible and convenient security
User Interface: Web Single Sign On API: Web Services and Java RMI

Graphic User Interface

TelcoGIS GUI is built with standard Portlet technology and is natively pluggable into a Liferay-based Enterprise Portal

Liferay is the world's leading open source portal platform powering portal solutions for leading enterprises around the world

Simplified spatial data management

Automation of key activities:
Import various format of Raster data Import Vector data Layer grouping and management Dynamic Spatial Queries

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Import of geographic data

Importing raster and vector data (100+ file formats supported, according to the GDAL/OGR library) into the Database and File System
Compatible with most popular Radio Planning software prediction export formats

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Layer organization
Organizing Layers into groups Each group can be made of subgroups Defining custom layer and group labels

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Layer configuration
Managing layer rendering
Defining visualization class with expressions Defining colors and symbols

Managing layers data sources

Database query builder

Raster selections

Defining query result templates

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Spatial data visualization

Interactive maps Dynamic layer switching

Layer grouping
Grouping of groups

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Spatial information query

Spatial map queries Dynamic generation of results Customizable result templates

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User maps
Adding user information manually via a form or importing an Excel file Searching users by Address or Map Selection Visualizing users into maps Managing customers on different layer basing it on category (type of CPE, Service Profile, Technology) Customized information structure

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Application Programming Interfaces

All key Functions are exposed as standard WebServices Map Configuration APIs
Edit map configurations

Add/Remove symbols

Layer Configuration APIs

Add/Edit/Remove Raster Layer Add/Edit/Remove Vector Layer Edit query template Add/Edit/Delete Group Layers Add/Edit/Delete Projects Get Database Table names

Map Visualization APIs

Get map image Get layers tree

Query Multiple Layer

Coverage Check
Check coverage from address Check coverage from coordinates

Map Query APIs

Query Single Layer

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Business & strategic network planning

A foundation to implement/support:
Competition Analysis Territory based Market Analysis Selection of Target Area

Demographic and Statistics Analysis

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Network planning & implementation

A foundation to implement/support:
Radio & Microwave Network Planning prediction web interaction Network Layout & Inventory Technical parameters and site configuration database integrated

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Focus on network layout and inventory

Adding network nodes

Showing network topology onto map

Viewing technical information on nodes Storing information about the status of nodes (e.g., coming from an NMS) and visualize it with different symbols on the map

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Marketing, sales and commercial planning

A foundation to implement/support:
Sales territory management Sales force automation Commercial reporting Merchandising strategy development Spatial Marketing

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Customer provisioning & quality assurance

A foundation to implement/supporting
Coverage check for Customer Care Self-care coverage check Portal

Customer Maps
Troubleshooting Reporting SLA Maintenance Service Profile QoS based activation areas

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Focus on coverage check

Geocoding address to check coverage
Rich interface with Google Map integration Searching Single address

Searching List of Addresses

Import list of addresses from a Excel file Simple End Customer Check Separate Operator interface and End Customer self-care coverage check portal

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Network optimization & maintenance

A foundation to implement/support:
Performance Monitoring (through integration with NMS)

Capacity Planning
Test Drive Support Upgrade history mapping

Map-based Network Inventory

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Focus on capacity planning

Showing of residual capacity of each network node (for both wireless access modules or networking interfaces) Dynamic calculation of residual node capacity to support provisioning

Direct portlet

integration

with

monitoring

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Focus on test drive support

Data acquisition via a form or importing an Excel file (as well as via API) Showing summary of each test drive session Viewing test drive maps, trace and values associated to each point Support of real-time data acquisition and direct integration with WiTech Real-Time Test Drive Platform

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Sample web site implementation

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Coverage check

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Reference cases

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Reference cases

TelcoGIS, including the Check Coverage module

TelcoGIS, including the Check Coverage module

TelcoGIS, including the Check Coverage module

TelcoGIS

TelcoGIS

TelcoGIS, including the Check Coverage module

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