Summary (Introduction)

What is TeleCAD-GIS?

TeleCAD-GIS is a software package for design of main projects and documentation of calibrated state of connecting leads, access networks and cable canalization in the fully localized environment. TeleCAD-GIS is based on AutoCAD platform.

Documentation created in the software package TeleCAD-GIS is usable for telecom operators in the planning, designing, constructing, developing of the cadastre, and the maintenance of the managed telecommunication infrastructure.

Why TeleCAD-GIS?

Primarily due to the ease of making main designs and documentation of calibrated state of connecting leads, access networks and cable canalization in the fully localized environment. Generation and synchronization of a large number of pages of documents from the situation plan. Usability of such prepared documentation in key business processes, management with telecommunication infrastructure (planning, maintenance...).

Who is TeleCAD-GIS for?

TeleCAD-GIS is for telecom operators and their project offices, offices for planning and monitoring the investments, services for technical documentation, maintenance services, services for GIS... In the same manner application is used by the all independent consulting companies and contractors in the construction of telecommunications infrastructure. In short, TeleCAD-GIS is extremely scalable and open product that provides full functionality on individual workstations, smaller LAN, and supports to complex IT systems and procedures in the WAN or Internet environments.

Conceptual basis of the software package

Software package TeleCAD-GIS is designed as an integral set of tools that also needs to meet three primary objectives:

• Quick, good and rational generating of digital technical documentation from the area of telecommunications infrastructure
• The immediate usability of such documents in establishing a modern information subsystem as the basis for the success of the process of maintenance, operation and management in the corporations which manage these systems.

• Compatibility and comparability of processes performed with processes in the environment (land surveying, urban planning, other infrastructure, statistics...)  

The transition to the computer preparation of project documentation has become a matter of survival for design organizations. Most of them used or still using different design software tools (CorelDraw, Microsoft Visio, AutoCAD ...). The classic use of these tools provides only a temporary competitive advantage in conditions of underdevelopment of IT support and control systems of telecommunications corporations. So, in circumstances where for the management of these systems is almost irrelevant whether the technical documentation is in digital or printed form.

The initial condition for successful adjustment of telecommunications corporations to market conditions is a clear picture of what they are managing.

However, digital cadastre is not a sufficient condition. Generally speaking, investment in digital processing is profitable only if the digitized facility is bearer of information used in the processes of maintenance, operation and management system.

That is possible if the functionality of GIS technology and the ability to create spatial topology, attribute assignment, connecting to relational databases, automatic generation specification and thematic maps based on a query is added to the CAD processing (digital situation plan and technical schemes). In this way, project designed documentation receives its function in managing processes of the user and his environment.

INOVA TeleCAD-GIS is based on AutoCAD platform. Reasons for such decision are many, but let us mention just three:

• The tradition of representation of these platforms in our region,
• Appropriateness of architecture Autodesk GIS Design Server to solving development problems of information system technical infrastructure organizations,
• References of that technology at major telecom operators in Europe