Global enabler in geospatial network construction technology, Render Networks, has announced an extension of its market-leading platform to include network operations and maintenance project support.
The expanded offering enables operators to expedite customer connections and seamlessly maintain and enhance the integrity of the network asset across the entire fiber lifecycle.
The broadband industry is on track to reach peak fiber deployment with households passed expected to increase from 68 to 100 million and over $135 billion in federal and private capital entering the market to primarily connect unserved markets by 2028. Render’s recent platform investment anticipates the need to accelerate customer connections and supports an increase in network operations and maintenance activities alongside growing FTTH builds.
Informed by strong market demand, Render’s automated scope creation, work management, and real-time visibility capabilities are now available to efficiently manage adds, moves, changes, and maintenance activities while maintaining accurate, geo-tagged records. Additional platform enhancements available in Render’s latest release include new segment-specific packages for network operators and builders and smart dashboards, multi-project reporting and advanced analytics providing real-time performance insights across all points of delivery.
“The fiber market absolutely needs an integrated construction and operations solution that reduces the cost to build and maintain infrastructure and improves the overall quality and geospatial accuracy of the network record,” said Sam Pratt, CEO at Render Networks. “The industry has previously relied on system integrations to facilitate the operations handover. We now offer a unified solution to manage network builds, connect customers quickly–in some cases, like Bolivar Energy Authority, in just 10 weeks versus 10 months–and maintain a geospatially accurate system of record to protect our customers’ network asset investment. In an industry driven by quality and speed-to-market, this is the future of broadband service delivery and management.”
New capabilities for Operations and Maintenance
Render’s solution extension, improves the quality and operability of data from construction to operations and supports the following foundational use cases:
Proactive Maintenance: Automate and optimize scheduling and tracking of maintenance tasks and schedules.
Customer Drops: Optimize tasks based on subscriptions and install dates. As work is completed, as-built data is automated to downstream systems to connect customers faster.
Adds, Moves, Changes: Efficient tracking of additions and changes that enable seamless accuracy of your physical network record.
Digital Twin Integration: Maintain rich, geo-intelligent, as-built information from the field into existing or legacy systems used for design, planning and operations.
Render’s unified capabilities and new openAPI-based integrations seamlessly connect highly accurate as-built data to network project ecosystems.
Pratt added, “As the volume of fiber broadband connections is increasing, a streamlined solution is mandatory so network operators can ensure a smooth handover between connection and maintenance. Partnering with Render enables operators to leverage our geospatial capability during network construction and now access that same, rich technology in the operations and maintenance phase.”
