Telecommunication

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 or even smaller disasters, such as a building fire or explosion, is dramatic and can cause chaos. Imagine the impact that a computer or a critical equipment / infrastructure failure, lasting several days, could have on your business. What would be the cost to your business and what impact would it have on your clients? Of course there is a cost to the business of designing and implementing your infrastructure plans but this cost is nothing compared to the risks of losing the business.

Are you confident that your organization could recover quickly from a major service disruption and sustain market share? In today’s business continuity, is a commercial imperative. A researched and proven contingency plan will enable you to resume commercial operations within hours of invocation, minimizing your crisis in the event of a disaster. Disaster recovery planning is a complex undertaking and requires continual enhancement and modification to keep up with your ever-changing business and infrastructure requirements.

The Facility Navigator™ comprehensive solution technology is a key enabler to successfully recover from a disaster and insure operational continuity. The Facility Navigator™ aims to provide you with an insight into ways in which you can learn and check various kinds of scenarios for irregular cases and quickly find alternative solutions for changing events. By that you can better protect your critical enterprise data, such as:

• Identifying risks to critical business information which may not be addressed by current existing data of your infrastructure and systems.
• Recommending enhancements to improve the availability of specific systems and applications.
• Optimizing the value of the current backup and recovery infrastructure.
• Recommending new or improved processes to enhance overall disaster recovery capability.
• Enables you to determine and retrieve any engineering and logistic data from different systems in order to avoid from risk situation.
• Combines active data from control modules, with passive data from infrastructure tools in order to optimize the business continuity.

The Facility Navigator™ (FN) is a comprehensive solution that reduces operational risks and costs and improves efficiency. The Facility Navigator™ is an Intelligent Infrastructure Management System (IIMS) that allows visual management of all the key processes and enables organizations to take control of an increasingly complex physical environment, including equipment, space and populating various kinds of infrastructure and controlled systems. Facility Navigator™ customers achieve substantial improvements in the quality, reliability and cost effectiveness of their infrastructure planning, design, provisioning, troubleshooting and analysis.

In many organizations, critical information exists in many databases and processes in order to deliver optimal levels of business service. Using the Facility Navigator™ provides the key for optimising and analyzing essential Engineering, and other critical information effectively and efficiently. This concept is based on a comprehensive solution correlating between the infrastructure real-time level, the infrastructure passive level, the maintenance level, HR, the logistic level, planning and the implementing changes.

In order to perform more complex user-defined or system correlations, an enhanced set of capabilities is required. The Facility Navigator™ deals with the alignment and integration of asset and facilities operations and maintenance processes, with the broader enterprise-wide business processes.

The Facility Navigator™ which actually is positioned in the organization as an ERP tool for infrastructure management is customizable and can be configured to match a wide variety of customer needs, such as:

• Full web based and N tier solution.
• Integration, correlation and consolidation with other systems, interior and exterior loops, to become a part of an enterprise solution.
• Facility Navigator™ is used through the entire life cycle of projects, from design to maintenance.
• A daily source of information for a wide range of users.
• A tool for expense control aimed for senior management level and finance operations.
• A tool for engineering and technical experts.

The Facility Navigator™ is the only existing one stop solution to consolidate and manage all infrastructure information from a centralized location. The Facility Navigator™ includes many different modules which can be implemented separately or as a whole:

• Space Utilization
• Equipment Management
• Piping Management
• Medical Gas Management
• HVAC Management
• Power & Lighting Management
• Voice and Data Network Management
• Maintenance Management
• Safety & Preventive
• Key management
• Archive Management
• Report Generator

Background:

• Cellular companies have thousands of sites nationwide which need to be managed and controlled
• Communication sites include:
1. Communication centers
2. Active and passive equipment
3. Antenna masts & antennas
4. Cables
5. HVAC, electricity, fire extinguishing etc’
• The network connecting all the sites, is complex and includes information regarding the sites layout and their connections
• Maintaining and updating this kind of information is a daily must, which can’t be done with out a comprehensive system containing all of the information mentioned above
• In most cases, organizations keep this kind of information in a few systems, not connected one to another and with out the ability to perform cross system and component analysis

Benefits:

• Control over all the communication resources regarding locations and quantities in different sites
• Optimization in maintenance and network expansion based on equipment versions and existing systems
• Analysis ability for needed modifications to networks, as result of upgrading equipments and systems
• Ability for central management and control over the main switch and its links to different sites