Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Czech Telefonica O2 relies on GIS by XANADU

GIS at Telefonica O2The implementation and support of a large GIS system running at the leading integrated telecommunications operator in the Czech market, the Telefonica O2, is carried out by CAD Studio Inc. (former: XANADU Inc). Our GIS solution is based on Autodesk MapGuide and Autodesk Topobase.

Telefonica O2 Czech Republic is operating more than seven million mobile and fixed lines, and it is also a leading provider of information and communications services.
O2 manages an extensive network of copper and optical fiber cables. Records of both networks are supported by two solutions: a stand-alone data capture and cleanup system and a data presentation and access system. Various employees use the data in these systems, including engineers and sales team sales teams. In addition, the investment team uses the data to analyze customer connections to determine where to expand the network. The security team assesses flood or storm areas that might affect service outages. And, the marketing department uses the information to create telecommunications service coverage maps.

Telefónica O2 wanted to create a tool for various geo-analyses. To do this, the company needed to visualize its CAD data in a simple, intuitive environment to support a range of enterprise processes and functions. One of the company’s main goals was to establish environment for start documentation creation, which serves as the basis for investment operations such as adding new cables, new customer connections and more.

This system is pivotal as it helps to create a rough scheme of the future network. It is based on information about the existing infrastructure and helps to produce an accurate investment estimate. Telefónica O2 designed the automated presentation environment to replace the need to tediously gather data from specialists in more than 70 documentation departments across the Czech Republic. The data are currently stored in only 13 districts and they are easily accessible by collaborating project members.

Read the full story at XANADU brings faster and more effective access to GIS information in Telefónica O2.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

List of AutoCAD commands and variables

With the localized versions of AutoCAD 2010 being released in these days, we have updated our list and dictionary of AutoCAD command names and variables. This database now contains all AutoCAD commands and variables, including those introduced in AutoCAD 2010.

AutoCAD command names in different localization languages (currently: EN, DE, FR, IT, CZ, PT, RU) can be important for local users and application developers supporting multiple languages. This is now even more important as AutoCAD 2010 introduces the "language pack" concept - additional languages can be now installed on top of the primary installed version.

In the command database, you can also inspect commands introduced in a specific AutoCAD version, find obsolete commands, discover undocumented commands, compare the limitations (missing commands) of the AutoCAD LT version, lookup commands from a fragment of the command name, etc.

See:
www.cadforum.cz/commands
www.cadforum.cz/variables