Winner: PalmChip Pakistan
Name of Product or Application: GeoTel
CEO: Jauher A. Zaidi
Website: palmchip.com
Email: anjum@palmchip.com
When infrastructure cables get damaged, the demand for solutions like GeoTel goes through the roof! While GIS systems can be used to document outside plant assets, they have no intrinsic capability to interact with the live network which makes the reporting of active faults not visible in a geographical context. On the other hand, while a network management system (NMS) provides live monitoring and management capabilities, it does not document the physical network in sufficient detail to help pinpoint the precise location of faults.
Rapid fault localization is particularly critical in the case of optical fiber outside plant, which can span a wide geographical area and run for thousands of kilometers. Faults could be localized rapidly by, receiving an alarm, remotely instructing pre-deployed OTDRs to identify the location of the faults and display the precise locations using GIS.
GeoTel provides outside plant asset documentation for copper, fiber optic, cellular, WiMAX and cable networks. It has a network management module that can act as a Manager of Managers (MoM) or interface with an existing MoM for getting network fault information. This fault information is made visible on in a GIS context. Network asset information in the GIS can be synchronized with the configuration information in network management systems. OTDR integration helps rapidly locate faults in fiber optic networks.
The product can facilitate any industry to allow operators to stream line operations, efficiently detect and managing faults, monitor performance, predict demand for a service or using a GIS based Customer Resource Management system; GeoTel has impact on a very large amount of users. As the number of users on the operators with GeoTel deployed scales so does its capability to address the needs of population at large.
