There seems to be a convention in the telecoms industry that when mapping copper or fibre networks in a GIS product, the maps should be the driver into the line plant inventory system. This is a problem for two reasons: network planners are generally not CAD engineers, and the cost of training a network planner to be a CAD engineer is very expensive. Confideo have been working to streamline this process to make the line plant inventory drive the production of GIS maps, CAD drawings and network schematics.
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