Fiber

Conduct strategic studies and adjust technical specifications

This requires access to high-quality data concerning local areas, prospects, customers and competitors, in order to design a fiber rollout and marketing strategy based on legal and local requirements.

As part of your fiber project,

• Prioritization of the highest value areas, based on different criteria: size of municipality, low bandwidth, existing infrastructure coverage, rate of secondary residences...)

• A Data & AI approach to prioritize rollouts: we build a scoring model to assess fiber appetence at the expected date of commercialization.

• Improved sales performance: Streamlining and aligning resources/channels according to the type of area/eligible customer ( appetence, pressure of competition, acquisition costs, etc.).

Our approach: 

• Data acquisition (satellite, aerial, drone, mobile mapping) and photo-interpretation.
• Market research and surveys*.
• An analytical approach (BI/dataviz tools, Excel...)
• Coaching and training to ensure skills transfer to your teams

Designing a network that suits your goals and your market

We help you define an end-to-end network architecture that meets current and future technical and commercial requirements.

• Civil Engineering & Cable Pulling: Civil Engineering accounts for 77% of construction costs. We advise you on the choice of mobilizable infrastructure, trenching best practices, duct configuration, chamber specifications, materials, equipment and organization.
• Engineering & equipment selection: Define architecture, network elements and documentation for storage, handling and installation. Participate in the reduction of the supplier panel.

Reduce risk by selecting the most appropriate suppliers

We help you establish your purchasing strategy for turnkey goods and services:

Pre-selection

• Consideration of business needs: marketing, sales, technical,
• Involvement of future operators
•  Supplier selection and due diligence
• Design of target prices and establishment of price list models and work units 

Auditions

• Hearing of candidates
• Assessment of understanding of issues and compliance with customer consultation rules
• Analysis of responses to solicitations and scoring: price, organization, FttH and GC skills and resources, security, CSR approach, availability, etc.

Selection

• Negotiations (price, resources, etc.) and Contractualization

Organize your project roll-outs to optimize service quality

Surveys are key to design quality and future operations. We can help you to collect data and make it reliable

We have developed online data collection solutions including pictures, GPS position and text, to speed up and industrialize this process and reduce risk of misinterpretation: 

Digitization of maps

• Data processing, data collection, data control and data enhancement
• Making housing database more reliable
• Identify isolated dwellings
• Identify available infrastructure
• Provide training in tools and best practices to local subcontractors
• Analyze social and environmental data

This industrialization cut collection time in half.

Providing ready-to-go solutions with an automated design solution

Our teams rely on our partners, experts in fiber network design solutions, to provide turnkey solutions for our customers, with all the advantages of an automated design solution, coupled with the strength of a small, expert team to streamline the pace of studies and absorb the risks of rework.

This organization has produced convincing results:

• Reduce CAPEX: Standardization and optimization of design solutions save 30% to 35% on CAPEX.
• Optimize Time to Market: faster design than with manual methods.
• Faster deployment thanks to high-quality studies and execution plans.
• Standardize design: Improved coordination between construction teams, operators, etc. Facilitate integration into GIS systems, automate invoicing.

Facilitate decision-making and prioritization

We evaluate contractors in charge of deployment to deliver the recommendation plans (indexing, improvement plan or other form of evaluation) needed to make decisions on the allocation of work to be carried out, while taking your context into account: 

• Climate: Extreme weather conditions may force teams to work at night or very early in the morning, to escape the heat for example.
• Administrative: Difficulties in obtaining work permits from different municipalities can vary from a few days to several months, requiring constant adjustments and revisions to subcontractors' schedules.
• on-site: Neighborhood complaints, inconsistent quality of subcontractors and communication difficulties may require Sofrecom teams to be on hand to find quick and efficient solutions: 

These organizational or environmental difficulties require experience to anticipate necessary adjustments and alert operational teams when necessary. Our service covers the following actions: 

• Assessing and motivating subcontractors
• Ensuring health and safety standards
• Ensuring that work complies with design guidelines
• Dealing with local complaints
• Participate in audits
• Manage technical difficulties and design modifications
•  Ensure that installed equipment complies with defined standards
• Standardize design: Improved coordination between construction teams, operators, etc. Facilitate integration into GIS systems, automate invoicing.

Managing the network's life cycle and scalability

Effective network operations and maintenance boost service adoption and usage, maximize customer satisfaction and contribute to a profitable return on investment. Our experts can help you organize and manage this activity:

In advance

• Identify companies with the right skills to carry out on-site operations.
• Building future capabilities as early as the network roll-out process
• Evaluate ground-breaking operating models, such as outsourcing the management of network operations to third parties.

For operational start-up

• Define scope of responsibilities
• Assigning contracts and agreements
• Define network availability and recovery time commitments
• Set technical conditions and timetables for taking over deployed panels

For technical network management

• Process orders/deliveries and assign services to subcontractors
• Management and resource allocation
• Network parameter storage
• Network planning: network capacity monitoring, preventive unsizing and sizing studies

For network supervision

• Monitoring of active network components
• Provide continuous monitoring of network and service quality
• Technical environment alarms (door closures, fire alarms, etc.)
• Problem escalation and reporting

For network maintenance

• Management of maintenance batches (network element stocks and threshold replenishment)
• Handling of alarm signals, qualification and location
• Taking corrective action and recovery with on-site service if necessary

To manage network life and scalability

• Define Network Life Cycle management plans to ensure compliance with technological and/or regulatory changes, Maintain spare capacities.
• Extend the network in line with future residential growth (densification, housing projects, etc.).
• Manage network relocation and undergrounding