Bridging the Digital Divide with ArcGIS

Webinar Recorded on Wednesday, September 22, 2021

In today’s connected world, having access to reliable broadband networks is essential for all. However, throughout the world, a high percentage of people lack access to broadband at minimally accepted speeds. To address this issue, telecommunications organizations are working as fast as possible to tackle the challenge and building the necessary networks needed for bridging the digital divide and connect both rural and underserved communities.

In order to address these challenges as efficiently as possible while maintaining fiscal responsibility, network scalability, and consumer transparency, telecom organizations need a foundation for intelligent decision-making before taking action in managing their networks. Esri’s ArcGIS^® provides a scalable, agile, and modern system of geospatial tools and resources to help companies achieve their goals. Take comfort in knowing this is an arena we have decades of experience in, and we’re here to help your organization.

Whether you’re applying for broadband grants, working to identify areas of no service or underserved locations within your existing region, or have recently obtained the funding needed to build out a broadband network and want to maximize capital investments, every aspect of your task at hand involves location and geography. Esri is the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology and can support you in your efforts. Since building a broadband network consists of a tremendous amount of location-based data, this is where GIS excels. It is uniquely suited to help your organization bid, plan, design, construct, and operate networks — all while meeting various reporting obligations associated with funding applications and awards.

As the global leader in geospatial products and services, we can empower your organization to make the best decisions possible as you take on the tasks associated with connecting the community. For decades, Esri has been successfully helping Telecom and Cable providers of all sizes leverage the power of geospatial data through ArcGIS. ArcGIS is a comprehensive GIS consisting of a system of record, system of insight, and system of engagement. ArcGIS provides a wide variety of resources, tools, applications, and solutions to help organizations solve many challenges.

Our team knows the challenges associated with planning, designing, engineering, constructing, and delivering telecommunications networks to customers as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest level of fiscal accountability, documentation, and insight. Based on our observations and experience in the industry, whoever applies for or receives grants or loans will need to do the following:

• Quickly plan and detail proposed networks and scope project costs.
• Design and engineer proposed networks, including high-level walkout surveys.
• Construct the network while both monitoring and reporting progress internally and externally.
• Provision new customers and operate the network.
• Maintain authoritative and up-to-date documentation on the network throughout its life cycle.

Through integration of your organization’s existing data and information, such as network designs, customer records, construction project records, and city and landscape assets, you build your GIS into a powerful foundation supporting intelligent decision-making, streamlined processes and workflows, transparency and collaboration in communication, and real-time situational awareness.

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