OFMTC, an Illinois-based broadband provider established in 2012, is committed to delivering high-speed, reliable internet to underserved areas. With a highly professional leadership team and a management group with over a century of combined experience in telecommunications, the company is poised for transformative impact. A testament to their dedication is their recent investment of over $4.6 million in St Joseph, IL, which will initially serve 8000+ households and businesses.
OFMTC is deeply devoted to bridging the connectivity gap faced by historically neglected communities. Their network infrastructure is designed to address the unique challenges, emphasizing resilience against extreme weather conditions.
By providing initiatives like free WiFi access points at community hubs, OFMTC fosters growth and opportunity where it’s needed most. They also actively form public-private partnerships to align with local needs, ensuring critical connectivity for sectors such as emergency services, education, and healthcare.
Overcoming the complexities of a growing fiber network
As OFMTC rapidly scales its operations, managing an intricate fiber network has become one of their primary challenges. This involves monitoring multiple routes and branches, planning network capacity accurately, and responding to outages efficiently. Additionally, during the construction phase, they needed tools capable of managing updates and redlining, ensuring an accurate source of information for serviceable locations. A solution was also required to support their NOC (Network Operations Center) teams in pinpointing outage locations accurately. To meet these needs, OFMTC sought out a robust and comprehensive fiber management platform.
The splice.me solution
Splice.me emerged as the optimal choice for OFMTC, offering a tool tailored for quick and easy network designa тв iber management.
According to James Brogdon, chief network engineer at OFMTC: “Splice.me bridged CAD and GIS workflows, allowing us to produce fiber splice diagrams quickly, without incurring high costs or extended timelines. Among the evaluated alternatives, Splice.me stood out with its out-of-the-box work-ready solution across various tech solutions like construction & project management software, OSS/BSS systems, and data visualization tools.”
Key ways Splice.me supports OFMTC include:
- Capacity planning: fiber utilization metrics aid in optimizing resources and identifying expansion opportunities. All splicing data at sight.
- As-built data management: simplifies the collection, organization, and uniformization of as-built network data, improving maintenance efficiency.
Tangible benefits and long-term objectives
Since adopting Splice.me, OFMTC has already realized several measurable benefits:
- Enhanced productivity: streamlined processes combined with accurate data have significantly boosted network engineer’s and splicer’s efficiency.
- Improved decision-making: insights from Splice.me enable better-informed decisions on expansion and fiber allocation.
Splice.me has revolutionized our network operations. Its user-friendly interface and features have optimized our fiber network design workflow, improving efficiency and accuracy. We now have all the fiber splicing data in one place under or fingertips - minimizing downtime while elevating our overall network performance
OFMTC is focused on utilizing Splice.me to drive its long-term growth initiatives. Over the next 10-12 months, Splice.me will play a pivotal role in supporting an aggressive construction schedule, with its application concentrated on having clearance of all fiber splicing documentation. Looking further ahead, OFMTC intends to explore Splice.me’s capabilities in next large scale rural fiber construction projects. Through this collaboration, OFMTC is strategically positioned to provide dependable, high-speed internet services to communities across Illinois.
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