Integrated Fiber Planning Tool for Multi-Source Deployment Feasibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication network operators lack an efficient method to accurately evaluate fiber deployment opportunities, leading to incongruous or improper decisions due to incomplete consideration of individual opportunities within the broader context, resulting in suboptimal resource allocation and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
An integrated network and system planning tool that analyzes fiber deployment opportunities by combining inputs from various sources, including geographical, wireline, mobility, infrastructure, and security data, to identify optimal routes, costs, and benefits, and generates recommendations for pursuing multiple opportunities within a threshold distance to enhance economic feasibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If fiber deployment opportunities are evaluated individually without integration, then evaluation simplicity is maintained, but evaluation accuracy and completeness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple evaluation inputs (geographic data, wireline data, mobility data, infrastructure data, security data) into a single integrated evaluation system. This merging of disparate data sources and evaluation criteria enables comprehensive assessment of fiber deployment opportunities while maintaining systematic processing through the unified tool.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive multi-source data integration is implemented, then evaluation completeness improves, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection and organization from multiple sources before the actual evaluation process. By pre-processing and structuring geographic, wireline, mobility, infrastructure, and security data in advance, the system reduces processing time during opportunity evaluation while maintaining comprehensive information coverage.
3Productivity
If fiber deployment is pursued without integrated planning, then deployment speed is maintained, but resource allocation efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the evaluation parameters from isolated opportunity metrics to integrated multi-dimensional parameters including geographic feasibility, wireline infrastructure availability, mobility demands, existing infrastructure utilization, and security requirements. This parameter transformation enables optimized resource allocation that improves deployment efficiency while reducing capital expenditures through better planning.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, an indication of a first address corresponding to a location that is a candidate to obtain communication services via a deployment of a fiber link, determining, by the processing system and based on a plurality of datasets sourced from a plurality of data sources, that it is economically feasible to deploy the fiber link from a second address to the first address to support the communication services, and generating, by the processing system and based on the determining, a recommendation for deploying the fiber link. Other embodiments are disclosed.