National Broadband Ireland Selects GE Digital’s Smallworld Physical Network Inventory to Help with the Roll Out of High-Spe...
10 June 2021 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
- Ireland’s National Broadband Plan delivers
high-speed broadband service to support communications,
information, education, and entertainment to current and future
generations
- Smallworld Physical Network Inventory will
assist with ambitious project allowing National Broadband Ireland
to be more aware of drop locations and accurately map out
implementation
GE Digital today announced that National Broadband Ireland (NBI)
has implemented the company’s Smallworld Physical Network Inventory
(PNI), part of its Smallworld Geospatial Asset Management suite of
solutions to model, manage, and streamline the roll out of
Ireland’s National Broadband Plan (NBP). The NBP, the largest
telecommunications project undertaken by the Irish state, will
deliver high-speed broadband to more than 1.1 million people across
approximately 544,000 homes in rural Ireland, aiming to ensure that
all people and businesses have access to modern and reliable
broadband services. The project is one of the biggest and most
significant investments in rural Ireland ever, and is viewed as one
the most ambitious telecoms projects globally.
The NBP will bridge the digital divide between rural and urban
areas throughout Ireland. NBI’s role is to design, build and
operate a fiber optic network to support this framework. GE
Digital’s Smallworld PNI solution provides a GIS-based solution
that allows telecommunications companies to streamline network
operations with a comprehensive and integrated view of the entire
network.
The Smallworld solution was chosen to not only maximize the
efficiency of the network plan, design, and build phase of the
project, but also the operation of this fiber network
infrastructure for many years to come. The solution underpins the
fully integrated ordering, connection management, installation and
activation, and assurance processes.
“National Broadband Ireland is leading the way in designing,
building, and operating Ireland’s new broadband network on behalf
of the Irish Government and GE Digital’s Smallworld solutions have
always been a key element of our program,” said Peter Hendrick,
Chief Executive Officer for National Broadband Ireland. “Our
reliance on quality inventory data is fundamental to the success of
the broadband service roll out. With Smallworld PNI in place, we
are able to have a single consolidated view of the network,
supporting the entire plan, design, and build processes and
ultimately the success of the entire venture through bridging the
digital divide.”
The project accounts for approximately 23% of the population in
Ireland and will cover 96% of the country’s land mass, with 146,000
km of fiber being deployed. Smallworld PNI will deliver a
centralized database for managing the entire network, providing
access to network information across NBI.
“GE Digital is proud to be part of this transformational
project, providing critical infrastructure and high- speed Internet
to rural communities in Ireland,” said Jim Walsh, General Manager
of GE Digital’s Grid Software business. “Our solutions offer
telecommunications companies with software to support such large
fiber roll outs. In these unprecedented times, high-speed Internet
access is critical to allow everyone to carry on remote working and
learning.”
More information about the National Broadband Plan can be found
here.
More information about GE Digital’s Smallworld Geospatial Asset
Management solution can be found here.
About NBI
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) is designing, building and
operating the new high-speed fibre broadband network for rural
Ireland on behalf of the Irish Government. NBI’s team brings
together some of the most talented individuals in Ireland and
across the world, with deep knowledge and experience in delivering
projects to the scale of the National Broadband Plan (NBP). This
includes developing, building and operating networks and
coordinating all the elements required to finance and deliver a
project of the size and complexity of Ireland’s NBP.
NBI was established by Granahan McCourt, an international
investor in technology, media and telecommunications. For over 30
years, Granahan McCourt has partnered with governments,
corporations and communities to connect people through innovation
in technologically underserved areas of the world.
NBI’s partners include KN Group, Secto and Actavo. Nokia is
providing all the active equipment for the project while 4Site is
the network design partner. NBI is also working with infrastructure
owners such as eir (pole and ducts network) and Enet (MANs and
Broadband Connection Points) NBI will be responsible for the
management of the new national broadband network for at least the
next 25 years.
About the NBP Intervention Area
The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government’s initiative
to deliver high-speed broadband services to all premises in
Ireland. This will be delivered through intervention by the State
in those parts of the country where private companies have
indicated they have no plans to invest.
The State Intervention Area for the National Broadband Plan
includes over 544,000 premises and over 1.1 million people and
includes any new homes built in the Intervention Area over the next
25 years.
The Intervention Area can be viewed using the government’s High
Speed Broadband Map (www.broadband.gov.ie) which shows the areas
which are included in the National Broadband Plan. The map is
colour coded and searchable by address and Eircode.
About GE Digital
GE Digital transforms how our customers solve their toughest
challenges by putting industrial data to work. Our mission is to
bring simplicity, speed, and scale to digital transformation
activities, with industrial software that delivers breakthrough
business outcomes. GE Digital’s product portfolio – including grid
optimization and analytics, asset and operations performance
management, and manufacturing operations and automation – helps
industrial companies in the utility, power generation, oil &
gas, aviation, and manufacturing sectors change the way industry
works. For more information, visit www.ge.com/digital.
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