OnePlan AccessTM
Provides geo-market forecasting, access network design and dimensioning, and economic analysis functionality
OnePlan Access plans access networks of any technology and produces business cases for new services by:
- Capturing sophisticated market forecasts
- Selecting the best access technology for a geographic region
- Designing and dimensioning optimized access networks with wireline and wireless technologies
- Providing detailed economic analysis based on forecasts and infrastructure investments
- Visualizing geographic data such as area maps, customer locations and network layout
By estimating the service demand, OnePlan Access provides valuable input to the other OnePlan network planning and design modules.
Key Features
Capturing Sophisticated Market Forecasts:
Geo-marketing aspects such as service definitions and customer demand mapping are handled through OnePlan Access Markets. Using this feature of OnePlan Access, communications service providers (CSPs) can:
- Define and characterize telecommunication services such as service type, traffic, number of interfaces, usage and revenue
- Define customer classes (e.g. residential, small business, large corporation) and corresponding service mixes
- Project customer density information for specific regions
- Predict forecast evolution curves on service pricings, traffic consumption, and/or network infrastructure costs
Designing and Dimensioning Optimized Access Networks:
OnePlan Access Technologies simplifies network planning, access technology selection and the architecture modeling process by modeling broadband access technologies as chains of network elements, connecting links and required infrastructures. Optimization and clustering algorithms are then used to synthesize networks and generate preferred positions for network nodes, taking into account legacy and new infrastructure and serving all customers with the desired mixture of services at minimum cost and maximum capacity utilization.
Providing Detailed Economic Analysis:
Business analysis such as techno-economic assessments and comparisons are performed using the OnePlan Access Economics feature. CSPs can compute bills of components and network costs (from investment to maintenance) for all years considered in the project and directly visualize this data on maps or within spreadsheets. Users can also compare and contrast several scenarios and projects based on economic metrics such as revenue, costs, cash flows, Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR).
Visualizing Geographic Data:
In support of the three processes discussed above, OnePlan Access also includes a geographical information system (GIS) to handle geographical aspects such as area maps, customer locations and network layout. Using either the ESRI MapObjects® or MapInfo MapX® GIS platform, OnePlan Access allows CSPs to:
- Load project maps and relevant geographical data
- Map customer demand such as customer site locations and service areas
- Lay out access network nodes and links
- Visualize geo-marketing results and network roll-out over city maps
To learn more about VPIsystems and OnePlan, we invite you to explore our website or contact us at any of our worldwide offices.
