ComptelPLUS Fall14 Show Daily Day 2

COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2015 Business Expo

COMPTELPlus

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Beka Publishing,

www.bekapublishing.com

DAY 2

Wilcon Lights Up Fiber Network

Connecting Chapman University Campuses

echnologies Management Inc. (TMI, Booth

614) has announced its GIS Service for broad-

band reporting support and more.

Given a street address, the system will deter-

mine a location’s applicable county, census tract

and census block for reporting or verification

purposes. Also, geocoding of addresses using

a location’s longitude and latitude coordinates

enables TMI to plot customer locations on maps

for easy visualization of service areas or customer

concentrations.

“Our GIS Service allows companies to capitalize

on their Form 477 data and create layered maps to

maximize sales and network planning, and incorpo-

rate demographic or economic data into forecasts,”

said Tom Forte, director of business development

for TMI. “Broadband service providers, sales groups,

marketing departments and network planning divi-

sions will be able to utilize the same visual informa-

tion via our flexible new GIS Service.”

If you are part of a venture that has filed 477

data with the FCC, that data can easily be repur-

posed and put to good use by other depart-

ments. Form 477 data can be utilized in many

ways, including:

• Data from prior reports can be compared

to provide a high-level view of a company’s

successes or challenges at a state, county, tract

or block level. Such comparisons also can be

used to identify potential inquiries from the

FCC about data submitted in your company’s

Form 477s reports.

• Data can be used to overlay a company’s

service areas or customer base with ILEC

territories. This might provide insights into

which ILEC territories are best for sales efforts

or sales implementation. Seeing the data on

a map makes it easy to pinpoint geographic

areas for future expansion.

TMI is demonstrating the service at its booth.

ilcon, a West Coast provider of fiber-

optic and data center infrastructure, has

announced plans to provide Orange

County, Calif.-based Chapman University with

a high-speed fiber-optic highway between the

university’s campuses.

“Our dedication to helping the education field

is paramount,” said Jon DeLuca, CEO of Wilcon. “By

partnering with Chapman University to help them

digitally connect their campuses, Wilcon is strongly

supporting outstanding educational excellence in

Southern California.”

Consistently ranked among the top universi-

ties in the West, Chapman University provides a

uniquely personalized and interdisciplinary educa-

tional experience to highly qualified students. Its

programs encourage innovation, creativity and

collaboration, and focus on developing global

citizen-leaders who are distinctively prepared to

improve their community and their world.

“Our recent and upcoming expansions, such

as the new Musco Center for the Arts in Orange

and the Rinker Health Science Campus in Irvine,

continue to place heavy demands on our network,”

said Michael Ferguson, Chapman University’s

network operations manager. “Wilcon’s fiber

network allows us to seamlessly integrate our

campus network with Internet service providers, as

well as connect our multiple locations in a robust

and redundant manner.”

Wilcon delivers dark fiber and ultra-broad-

band optical services for businesses, wireless

carriers and other communications service

providers to ensure optimal performance for

their mission-critical data traffic and applica-

tions—and education is a key vertical for the

company. Wilcon offers Chapman notable

reach, using its diverse routes connecting major

data centers, enterprise locations and wireless

communications sites, as well as dense fiber and

interconnection infrastructure in downtown Los

Angeles. Wilcon also owns and operates leading

data center and carrier-neutral colocation facili-

ties in downtown Los Angeles, including its key

hub at the One Wilshire Building.

“We are at the forefront for providing custom-

ized fiber-optic solutions to leading learning and

research facilities in our region,”DeLuca said. “By

continually expanding the reach and capacity of

our ultra-broadband data networks, we are able to

deliver robust and resilient bandwidth to educa-

tional institutions in a scalable, cost-effective way.”

Technology is transforming education and

research. High-speed broadband is an educational

equalizer and a learning accelerator.

“This will allow us to vastly increase our band-

width, which will encourage students to focus

on learning in new and innovative ways,” said

Ferguson. “We see great things for the future and

look forward to this partnership with Wilcon.”

NEF Announces

Enhancements

to FiberLocator

EF (Booth 312), a telecommunica-

tions consulting and brokerage firm

focused on dark fiber, colocation and

high-capacity bandwidth, has announced

the latest enhancements to its innovative

telecom network intelligence and maps plat-

form, FiberLocator.

The revamped platform is now faster and

easier to use, according to NEF, featuring newly

available information and the routes of various

network providers, as well as increased secu-

rity, additional customization capabilities, and

a clean, modern interface that enables a more

intuitive workflow. The latest version of the

telecommunications and data center database

also provides users with more descriptive intel-

ligence and transparency into available metro

and long-haul optical fiber networks, data center

space and lit buildings nationwide.

FiberLocator 2.0 was created to be

a comprehensive, carrier-neutral fiber

mapping tool, providing telecommunications

networking stakeholders with a more effi-

cient, simplified and cost-effective solution for

accurate fiber-mapping research. It’s available

in three models: As an online, software-as-a-

service (SaaS) application; via multiuser enter-

prise access; or it can be integrated into an

operator’s existing platform via an API.

“FiberLocator 2.0 provides users with access to

our growing database of over 280 unique carriers,

389,000+ lit building records, and around 6,800

data centers, providing the visibility for compa-

nies to dynamically design and build smarter

networks more efficiently and cost-effectively,”said

Steve McCarthy, COO at NEF.“Beyond simplifying

network planning and research, NEF is a full-service

company, providing our customers access to a

comprehensive service suite including brokerage

and consultancy offerings. Our goal is tomake our

customers’lives easier, and our latest enhancements

to FiberLocator are a testament to that promise.”

The news comes on the heels of the

announcement that NEF has partnered with

INCOMPAS to offer the association’s members

exclusive discounts on FiberLocator, along with

specialized consulting services. NEF also sepa-

rately announced that new data from INDATEL

(Booth 813) is now being added to FiberLocator,

which INCOMPAS members will also be able to

take advantage of. The deal also provides INDA-

TEL’s 27 independent, rural telecommunications

carriers with visibility on a national scale.

TMI Introduces GIS Service