Opencomms Designer represents an avanced engineering software meticulously crafted to streamline the intricate processes of planning,constructing, and maintaining fiber, coaxial, and hybrid fiber-coaxial networks.
Through the utilization of a GIS (Geographic Information System) platform, Opencomms Designer empower users to meticulously manage their network infrastructure, employing geographic analysis to surpass typical costraints and enhance network performance significantly.
OpenComms Designer simplifies the full spectrum of tasks involved in planning, engineering, constructing, and maintaining fiber, coaxial, and hybrid fiber-coaxial networks. It seamlessly integrates optimized network planning models into existing design environments, facilitating efficient engineering and maintenance of the network’s as-built model. Through OpenComms Designer, project stakeholders can effectively monitor and track changes in project work requests from start to finish. Additionally, the software streamlines digital workflows by generating iModels and consolidating network model information into digital twin environments, thereby enhancing overall value.
OpenComms Designer offers a comprehensive solution that integrates network design and work management, streamlining the infrastructure design process for enhanced efficiency and increased engineering throughput. With a particular focus on outside plant networks, the software excels in the rapid layout and validation of various network architectures, including coaxial, FTTx (Fiber to the X), HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial), and more. It extends its capabilities to encompass network facilities, enabling users to expedite projects through intuitive visual layout tools. One of its standout features is its ability to ensure consistency across designs while saving valuable time by providing access to common equipment, layout templates, connection rules, and standard reports.
OpenComms Designer equips designers and their supervisors with advanced tools to efficiently monitor and address work requests across the project lifecycle. It encompasses sophisticated functionality for managing work orders, facilitating job closure, managing disconnected contractor workflows, and tracking project progress. This enables seamless oversight of the entire workflow, ensuring tasks are completed promptly and in accordance with project requirements.
Moreover, OpenComms Designer seamlessly integrates with various Workforce Management Systems (WWS), enhancing project coordination and management from initiation to completion. This integration allows for real-time updates and synchronization of project information across multiple platforms.
In situations where VPN access to the engineering documentation server is limited, OpenComms Designer supports contractors by enabling disconnected workflows. This feature empowers contractors to continue working efficiently, even without direct access to the central server, by providing the necessary tools and resources for offline task execution.
OpenComms Designer presents users with an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that streamlines the process of specifying equipment, crafting drawings, and adhering to essential engineering standards for fiber, coaxial, and hybrid fiber-coaxial networks. The GUI fosters a user-friendly environment where designers can effortlessly navigate through diverse tools and features to define equipment specifications, outline network layouts, and implement engineering standards effectively.
A notable advantage of OpenComms Designer lies in its preconfigured library, expediting the startup process for users. This library hosts a comprehensive array of pre-defined components, equipment models, drawing templates, and standard configurations commonly utilized in communication network design projects. Leveraging this resource, designers can swiftly access and integrate standard elements into their designs, reducing the time and effort associated with manual configuration and setup.
Moreover, the GUI of OpenComms Designer caters to users of varying expertise levels, ranging from novice designers to seasoned professionals. Its intuitive layout and user-friendly controls empower users to efficiently navigate the software, access relevant features, and execute tasks with confidence.
In essence, OpenComms Designer’s GUI offers a seamless interface that simplifies equipment specification, drawing creation, and adherence to engineering standards for fiber, coaxial, and hybrid fiber-coaxial networks. By providing access to a preconfigured library and intuitive controls, the software enhances productivity, ensures consistency, and facilitates the seamless execution of communication network design projects.
- Comprehensive Network Design: Design, build, and operate your communications network to deliver broadband services when and where they are needed
- Inside Plant and Outside Plant: Enables inside and outside plant design in a GIS environment with a full work order lifecycle management
- Full Architecture Support: Supports a variety of architectures such as: coax, FTTx, HFC, FITL, LAN/WAN, metropolitan, long haul, SONET/ATM, and many others
- Full Workflow Management: The application allows the full planning, engineering, constructing, and maintaining of fiber, coax, and hybrid fiber-coax networks
- Whole Work View and History: Enables designers and managers to monitor and fulfill work requests from start to finish using complete lifecycle management
- Increase Design Output: Improves efficiency and design time, increase engineering throughput of infrastructure design, and accelerate the speed of project delivery
- Monitor progress and manage change: Management information can be easily managed across organizations to help achieve corporate goals and business objectives
- Integrate with Bentley products: Information by incorporating data from a variety of Azkatel design and third-party applications to support your digital twin solutions
OpenComms Designer is a GIS, client-based communications network engineering solution for planning, engineering, constructing, and maintaining fiber, coax, and hybrid fiber-coax networks. OpenComms Designer enables you to easily integrate optimized network planning models directly into existing design environments to engineer and maintain the as-built model of your network. Complete projects ahead of schedule by seamlessly managing work, whether it is done in house or outsourced to contractors. OpenComms Designer empowers project stakeholders to monitor and track change in project work requests from start to finish. Boost value in your digital workflows by creating iModels and aggregate OpenComms Designer network model information into your digital twin environments.
OpenComms Designer enables you to improve efficiency and increase engineering throughput of infrastructure design by merging network design and work management in a single environment. For outside plant networks, you can quickly lay out and verify coax, FTTx, HFC, and other architectures in a rich engineering GIS that includes the precision of MicroStation® with interactive signal calculations. For network facilities, you can speed projects with visual layout of headends, points of presence, central offices, data centers, and other sites. With OpenComms Designer, you can deliver consistent designs and save time with common equipment, layout templates, connection rules, and standard reports.
OpenComms Designer enables designers and their supervisors to monitor and fulfill work requests using sophisticated functionality for work order management, job closeout, disconnected contractor workflows, and process measurement and tracking. OpenComms Designer interfaces and integrates with a variety of WWS solutions to streamline the process of managing projects from inception to completion. OpenComms Designer empowers and supports your contractors by enabling disconnected workflows when VPN access to the engineering documentation server is not permitted.
OpenComms Designer provides you with an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for specifying equipment, drawing, and engineering standards used in the design and documentation of your fiber, coax, and hybrid fibercoax networks, which includes a preconfigured library for quick startup.
Designed for your coax networks, OpenComms Designer uses a graphical routing process based on existing landbase and strand map information, such as poles, pedestals, manholes, and ducts, to build an intelligent network model of the coax and related outside plant facilities. These functions maintain connectivity throughout the entire network. Editing a device causes the network to be recalculated automatically, and devices that do not meet the design specification used in the project are identified for further correction. A complete set of tools is available to place different kinds of annotation driven by information from the database. You can place data blocks (amplifier, power supply, and/or end of line) that were previously customized in the setup. There are two ways to verify the network design. The first calculates signal level and distortion automatically while the user is laying out the coaxial network. The second allows the user to recalculate the signal level and distortion from any coaxial device on the network until an amplifier or terminator is reached. After the design has been completed, you can power the plant. Powering is based on user-defined boundaries or power blocks that define the area to be powered. You have the option of changing the power count percentage when using power-passing taps.
Using OpenComms Designer to configure your equipment standards ensures consistency throughout projects. OpenComms Designer supports multiplexing and demultiplexing of wavelength for use in commercial fiber and HFC architectures. OpenComms Designer allows efficient fiber cable splicing automatically or manually, depending on the complexity of the network. From an easyto-use GUI, you can select fibers to splice together, the type of splice to use, the position they will occupy in the enclosure, their status, their tray, slot, or holder location, and fiber entry port allocation for the incoming sheaths. Quickly find any device, locate an outage anywhere in the network, locate a path between two devices based on several criteria, or locate customers. There are several “locate” utilities including the ability to locate particular devices, customers, slack loops, and the locate outage tool.
OpenComms Designer includes powerful reporting functionality with bills of materials (BOM) for all equipment and cable, BOM by build state, address list by node service area, and more. Reports are displayed on the screen and may be output as text files for printing or for importing to other file formats. Various reports are available, including a resource report that details the equipment specifications of the spec file(s), a device information report listing the properties of the routed equipment, a device BOM report that lists the materials and costs of equipment used in a definable area or in an entire project, a sheath BOM report of the active work area or an entire project, and a reel BOM that shows assigned sheaths to reels in the active work area or an entire project. OpenComms Designer provides the capability to route and manage conduits within a duct system and to perform capacity analysis. Integrated OpenCities® Map print preparation capabilities can be used to facilitate construction plans. Print preparation functionality is delivered with a standard schema, sample border templates, and other items. This facilitates quick startup, but print preparation is also fully customizable to meet the user’s organizational standards. OpenComms Designer has a connector to generate network infrastructure iModels to boost the value in digital workflows
OpenComms Designer enables you to define, configure, and place equipment in racks and floor plans that visually depict the precise layout of the facility to ensure consistency and data integrity throughout your projects. Administrators can define a library of frames (racks), cards, and equipment used in the design process along with their associated properties. Equipment in racks and slots can be pre-configured within the equipment. Rules defining valid card-to-slot relationships and jumper cable-to-port type validation can also be defined. Racks and equipment are displayed on floor plans created with MicroStation or imported from other sources. These floorplans can be as simple as the building footprint, or a detailed architectural drawing.
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