Telecommunications Engineering Services
PLANNING
NewCom has quality control systems and engineering checkpoints to assure the technical performance of all NewCom-prepared facility plans.
NewCom can provide consultation in all areas of facility planning
— subscriber line telephone systems, feeder allocation, and
distribution analysis. Whether your engineering needs are in new
plant or plant extensions or upgrade of existing networks, NewCom
has diverse experience in fiber, coax, and copper network facility.
NewCom Planning solutions include:
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Development of long-range OSP plans, including dispersion of
cable pairs and technologies along the route.
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Facilities management.
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DSL deployment within the exchange including a review of the
entire set of records to determine the ability to change
architecture to meet DSL requirements.
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Feeder solutions to new developments.
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Fiber optic network planning is performed to maximize the value
of your capital; such as pushing fiber solutions further out in
order to provide broadband high-speed data to customers.
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NewCom can audit and document your existing standards of
practice and procedure for construction, field engineering, and
design and drafting; and, if requested, NewCom will suggest
improvements.
Final project deliverables include all the necessary project
documentation such as standards, symbol library, facilities plan,
and paper and digital files. When the time comes to expand your
network, you will have the necessary tools and information to
continue the network seamlessly and consistently. Our documentation
includes detailed metadata for land base, symbology, layering,
drafting standards and any customized software applications
developed for your project.
DESIGN FLEXIBILITY
Throughout the country, NewCom has performed route engineering for
long haul and city fiber optic, requiring contact with a variety of
local and state governments. We would like to put those contacts
to work for you in right-of- way acquisition, easement title
search and acquisition, survey coordination, exhibit preparation and
easement recording. Not only do we have processes in place that
streamline our field collection activity, we make every effort to
protect you from unanticipated problems in construction,
maintenance, and operation.
NewCom Design solutions include:
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Along with fully permitted construction detail prints, NewCom
can also make application for construction permits as
part of the design process.
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A customized Material Requirement Sheet is prepared at
the completion of the design phase. Meeting your specific
requests, the Material Requirement Sheet often includes
differentiation of new cabling requirements versus reuse of
existing and a comprehensive list of hardware for the network
elements, including the support structure.
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Field notes are scanned and archived as image files and provided
as a final project deliverable reducing your need to
store paper files.
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As a common practice, any deficiencies in the plant standard can
be identified during field data collection: Such as proper
resistance design parameters from end to end, including
documentation.
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NewCom will act on your behalf in property acquisition
and rights of way negotiations. We also make sure that
local and state governmental jurisdiction requirements for
aerial and underground communication facilities are met;
including, if required, accordance with the National Electric
Safety Code and National Electric Code.
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Route engineering includes make-ready recommendations and
can include pole attachment applications.
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For underground facility, NewCom can prepare conduit
design, conduit detailing, manhole detailing, prepare all forms
and documentation for approval of conduit construction and/or
installation, and verify as-built.
Many of these collaborative exchanges have produced bottom-line
benefits for the System. For instance, some operators have
profited from NewCom's enhancements such as a 911 compliant format
for easy interface with LECs (reducing future compliance expense)
and imbedding data to support facilities management audits such as
hardware pole attachments and duct availability (for expense
control and identifying potential revenue streams).
ENHANCE YOUR DATA MANAGEMENT
CAD Solution to Network Documentation
NewCom specializes in AutoCAD—always the latest version. And
AutoCAD’s powerful programming language flexes to fit many other
platforms. CAD also provides a basis for integrating diverse data
into an enterprise-wide information system.
Moving to electronic (digital) network information storage can
save you both time and money. Although initially it may
seem that the cost may be prohibitive the result can affect the
bottom line in a positive way:
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Network information can be created from a variety of CAD and
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) platforms that will
integrate with your current information storage system (from
file cabinets to legacy computer systems).
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NewCom CAD services include detailed site drawings,
permit detail drawings, and presentation quality overview
maps. The benefits of CAD over conventional paper-based
drawings, in general, are easy retrieval, easy modification, and
the drawings can be printed in paper form to support maintenance
activities.
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In addition, you may opt to archive the plant as-built
information in CAD. In this form, the elements that are required
for design and construction can be viewed seamlessly as a
background to the network drawing files.
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Creating databases that document facility audit results: For
example, pole attachment inventory for pole attachment
agreements between you and other utilities. Although drafted
in CAD, the data can be stripped off and placed in database form
for your analysis; and the data may also be associated with
digital imagery of pertinent facilities.
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If you document your system in a CAD environment or make the
decision to move to the digital format, NewCom can often provide
solutions to enhance the CAD data with our GIS processing
capabilities. These processes can extract critical elements
from state and local government Geographic Information Systems
when available. This data integration typically reduces costs to
the Operator, improves the quality of the data, and builds a
basis for common interchange between the operator, other
regional utilities, and local and state governments.
Custom Software Tools
During the course of any project, we continuously review our
processes to speed up and simplify production of deliverables. These
improvements are sometimes global but usually unique to each
project; however, any custom software tools that function
exclusively with projects developed by NewCom are yours to keep.