Utilization of Geospatial Technologies in Telecom
Qtel
3rd April 2012
A System for Connecting, Communication and Collaboration
. . . Building Spatial Understanding
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JDBPC2005
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A major goal of The Centre for GIS is
to create and sustain a spirit of
harmony in the community of GIS
users in Qatar. This is initially
achieved at The Centre's GIS training
centre where the various individuals
involved in GIS all receive their
orientation and training.
The Centre has ensured compatibility
throughout the GIS databases in Qatar.
Compatibility itself tends to encourage and
sustain cooperation because the data is
readily transferred and easy to use.
Source: http://www.gisqatar.org.qa/new/all.html
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OVERVIEW OF THE PAST
• Converting all the paper drawing
Telecommunication Access Management System
TEAMS
• Application Development
• In house Developed:
• Primary object application usage
Planning Work and External Plant Work
Started with a minimal investment in a solid network
management system (TEAMS) and then scaled up to an
enterprise system with a minimum constraints.
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PRESENT SCENARIO
• New system build on
ESRI® ArcGIS™ 9.x platform, Network Engineer ™
supports the planning, management & operations of
core networks with associated inside and outside
plant equipment, all on an integrated GIS land base.
• Powerful work order management tool
Network Engineer gives the planner authorized control
over network access, editing, documentation, and
management with daily operations
• Sophisticated Editing Tools
PRESENT SCENARIO
Network Engineer offers complete Outside Plant
management tools with a communications-specific
interface for creating, placing, and editing network ducts,
structures (joint box, Manholes), cables (Copper, Fiber)
and equipment.
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PRESENT SCENARIO
• Inside Plant Management Capabilities
In addition to providing powerful Outside Plant design and
management capabilities, Network Engineer offers
sophisticated tools for documenting and associating inventory
with network structures
The inside plant view allows users to
view and manage:
• Schematic Generation
The integration of Network Engineer with ESRI
ArcGIS Schematics™ enables users to
• Generate on demand
• Visualize
• Manipulate
logical representations from linear network data
stored in a database.
Logical representations display network features
without scaling constraints. A schematic representation of network data adds another visualization
dimension to analysis and decision support.
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Presentation Title, Date
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Network Engineer
Network Engineer makes edits to the
geodatabase and passes the data back to
ArcGIS to be stored in the RDBMS.
ArcGIS
ArcGIS gets data from the Spatial Data
Engine (SDE) and passes it into Network
Engineer.
SDE
RDBMS (Database)
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Presentation Title, Date
SDE manages how the spatial information for
your geographic data is stored in the Relational
Database Management System (RDBMS).
SDE puts data into and retrieves data from the
RDBMS.
Stores your data to be passed to SDE to be
displayed in Network Engineer.
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Presentation Title, Date
Overview - Common Language ® Identifiers
• Common Language ® Information Services is a distributed
data implementation designed to enable Service Providers and
their trading partners to identify and describe critical network
assets in a consistent and meaningful manner.
The Common Language ® solution provides a data
infrastructure including
Data Structure,
Dictionary and Syntax,
Registry and Distribution Engine including data
attributes
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Presentation Title, Date
Overview - Common Language ® Identifiers
Code Name
Definition
Description
CLLI
Common Language
Location Identifier
Identifies locations/ Stores descriptive attributes such as address,
lat/long, descriptions, etc./ access to international registry of
locations provided/ catalogues network capabilities at location
CLEI
Common Language
Equipment Identifier
Universal network element catalogue/ unique to manufacturer, part
number and version/ access to multi-vendor catalogue provided/
identifiers bar coded on equipment and included in MIB
CLFI
Common Language
Facility Identifier
Identifies paths through the network that make bandwidth
available/ Reference data provided to name all technologies/
structure and format identifies facility end points
CLCI
Common Language
Circuit Identifier
Identifies individual or group message trunk and special service
circuits / Reference data provided to name all circuits by trunk
modifiers, traffic type, originating and terminating office locations
etc.
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Presentation Title, Date
Overview - How Common Language Defines Network
Assets and Connectivity
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Central Office
Central Office
101/ 3/DOHXQA01DS0/UMHXQA01DS1
101/OC192/ DOHXQA01DS0/UMHXQA01DS1
101/OC192/5/DOHXQA01DS0/UMHXQA01DS1
Geographic Code
D O h X
Geopolitical
Site
Code
Q A
0 1
Entity
D S 0
The plant engineer registers the location
of central
as Network
Sites,
then
10 offices
Presentation
Title,
Date
multiple Site Entities.
The plant engineer places
equipment in each central
office.
Geographic Code
U M H X
The plant engineer places cable
and inventories fibers into the
engineering systems.
Geopolitical
Site
Code
Q A 0 1
Entity
D S 1
The OC192 and timeslots are
configured using the Inventory
& provisioning system.
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Presentation Title, Date
Thank you.
EPM February 2010