3-GIS – Fiber Broadband Association

FBA Presents – Lighting the Path to Over 1 Million Homes: Lumos’ Fiber Scaling Strategy

dnorris — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Service providers are facing growing demands to accelerate connectivity to more premises than ever before. This challenge calls for both technical innovation and streamlined operations across the board. To stay competitive, operators must balance speed and service quality, ensuring reliable, high-speed connectivity on a large scale.

Join us for a conversation with David Smith, Chief Network Officer at Lumos, to discuss how they plan to expand their network from thousands of homes to millions by integrating comprehensive network management technology into core operations—enhancing decision-making, improving efficiency, and accelerating deployment in both greenfield and brownfield scenarios.

Presented by:

David Smith

Chief Network Officer

Lumos

Andrew Wright

Director of Product Management

3-GIS

FBA Presents – Leveraging AI and Automation to Streamline Data Collection and Management

dnorris — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Handling vast amounts of data is a daunting task for any telecom network operator, whether you’re deploying new fiber networks or maintaining existing ones. In response, AI and automation are becoming essential tools in breaking down data silos, integrating third-party data, keeping as-builts updated, and expediting field data capture.

Join our upcoming session on Wednesday, June 12th at 12:00 PM EDT as we explore three major data challenges facing the industry and ways to overcome them.

Presenters will cover:

Integrating diverse information streams into a comprehensive and reliable dataset
Migrating data between systems without compromising integrity or security
Using AI to enhance data capture and reduce manual workload

Presented by:

George Hughes, Vice President, Product Management, 3-GIS

Meredith Bliss, Production Manager, Data Services, 3-GIS

Radhaji Mani, Solutions Engineer, 3-GIS

FBA Presents – Optimizing Your Network: 5 Essential Elements for Effective Fiber Management

dnorris — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

When it comes to fiber deployment and management, a network asset management system is no longer just a tool; it’s a strategic necessity. Coupled with GIS, it offers valuable insights derived from spatial data analysis, enabling network operators to make informed decisions based on a thorough understanding of the geographical factors influencing their infrastructure. In essence, it becomes an indispensable resource, empowering telecom professionals to optimize resource allocation, anticipate challenges, and navigate the dynamic landscape of fiber deployment with precision and foresight. But how do you ensure your system can sustain your business?
Join us for a session in which we’ll explore how asset management systems optimized for fiber are transforming how telcos run their businesses and the key considerations for implementing one. Presenters will cover:

The role of GIS in fiber network deployment and management
The importance of developing a system to manage network assets for the long term
Key considerations for selecting and implementing a system

Presented by:

Stacia Canaday, Manager – US Telecommunications Practice, Esri

Andrew Wright, Director of Product Management, 3-GIS

Webinar: Gila 3 release

3-GIS — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 04:00:00 +0000

You’ve invested the time, money, and resources to get your network designed and built. Protect that investment by using a network management system that can help you track faults and incidents and mitigate the associated risks. Join our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 10:00 am CDT to discover how the latest version of 3-GIS | Web, Gila 3, enhances your business operations by:

Keeping track of existing faults and incidents
Maintaining and managing your legacy copper data
Speeding up digitizing by automatically generating paths
Streamlining work orders with real-time messaging and notifications

To attend, please register here: https://info.3-gis.com/gila3-product-update-release

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Webinar: Boost efficiency with Gila 2 – the latest version of 3‑GIS

3-GIS — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 04:00:00 +0000

For many engineering companies, work orders are handled the same way they have for decades with spreadsheets and paper. With the newest release of 3-GIS | Web, Gila 2, you can bridge the design-to-construction process and bring it into the digital age. Do more with your data and add value throughout the enterprise by:

Tracking projects and tasks against a work order
Creating and managing complex equipment with multiple components
Experiencing enhanced views of dynamically driven data
More tightly integrating with Esri ArcGIS Online and Enterprise

Join this webinar on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 9:00am CDT to learn more about what Gila 2 has to offer.

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3-GIS Podcast: Connecting America’s Broadband Deserts‬

3-GIS — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Consistent and reliable internet connections are critical for our modern economy. So, how is engineering and technology being used to make reliable internet access available across rural areas?

Deb Socia, President and CEO of The Enterprise Center, and Jimmy Hall, VP of Engineering & Product Services with 3-GIS, provided insights on where the United States stands today and the challenges to providing such access to all of the Americas.

The Enterprise Center is a non-profit in Chattanooga, TN. It works with the city and the county around economic development and digital inclusion, smart cities infrastructure, innovation and the entrepreneurial eco-structure system. From Socia’s vantage point, the U.S. still has ways to go to get people, especially those in rural and underserved communities, connected.

“If you ask the FCC, they say there are at least 21 million Americans without access, but we know that number is pretty low,” Socia said. “If you ask Microsoft, they say it’s as high as 162 million. It’s a pretty wide-range between 21 and 162 million.”

If a wider swath of internet access is needed, and everyone knows it’s needed, what issues hamper the effort to bring broadband access to those who don’t have it? From a local level, Socia sees many impediments from 19 states that don’t allow local decision-making around building broadband. “I think the importance of empowering every potential way of solving this problem is important at this moment,” Socia said.

From education and remote work access to signing up to get a COVID vaccination, universal broadband internet access is something that everyone needs in all communities. And while the challenges are many, Hall said technology’s advancements in network engineering make a difference in driving cost efficiencies.

“What we’ve found, and the opportunities that have presented themselves, is how you can design and optimize a network through some of the toolsets that we have at our fingertips now,” Hall said. GIS, spatial data, and design automation play a role in achieving that universal access goal.

Listen to the full podcast here.

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SSP Announces Fourth Acquisition: 3-GIS

3-GIS — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

SSP Innovations has closed a deal to fully acquire 3-GIS. By joining forces with SSP, 3-GIS will continue to focus on the private telecom market while strategically and intentionally expanding further into the utility space. 3-GIS has been led for the last several years by President Dustin Sutton along with the company’s founders, CEO Tom Counts, CTO Tommy Siniard and COO Jerry Golden. Sutton will continue in his current position leading the telecom business line within SSP Innovations while the founders will provide strategic guidance around continued market evolution as well as integration into the SSP family.

SSP Announces Fourth Acquisition: 3-GIS

3-GIS — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

SSP Announces Fourth Acquisition: 3-GIS

3-GIS — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000