Built on the powerful Smallworld platform, GE's Smallworld Network Inventory™ Solutions helps customers to reduce network capital and operational expenditure by improving network utilization, increasing workforce productivity, reducing planning and engineering time, accelerating response to network outages and reducing risk of provisioning failure.
Full integration with other business applications provides a seamless flow of information throughout the enterprise. With a philosophy to deliver not just what customers need today, but also what they will need tomorrow, GE continues to develop innovative products that set the standard for managing networks.
GE offers a portfolio of products through Smallworld Network Inventory that provides end-to-end solutions for multi-vendor, multi-technology networks, encompassing integrated service and network-level data. The products provide a comprehensive, integrated view of the entire network, bringing together inside and outside plants for physical and logical networks. Facilities are provided for integration into the OSS environment and for making the data available across the enterprise through Internet access. The products are built upon the Smallworld Core Spatial Technology™, one of the most extensive and scalable GIS technologies available today and in widespread use for applications for spatial and network data.
Smallworld Physical Network Inventory™
Physical Network Inventory is the flagship product in the Smallworld Network Inventory suite. It models the entire physical network, for wired and wireless networks, both inside and outside plant, supporting multiple communications technologies and equipment from multiple vendors. The Physical Network Inventory models ducts, underground and overhead cables (fibre, copper, RF/co-axial), street cabinets, manholes, splice closures, buildings (including floor plans) and rack-mounted equipment, right down to the port level - the entire, end-to-end connected network. Fibre-to-the-Home is becoming an increasingly important distribution method for communications service providers. Fibre access technologies offer architectures that are flexible and scalable enough to deliver a combination of high quality broadband services to customers, including the ‘triple play’ bundle of voice, internet, and digital television. Smallworld plans and engineers all types of FTTX networks and provides a dedicated solution to manage FTTH networks using automated tools. This solution, based upon Physical Network Inventory, is able to significantly reduce network design time and so in turn reduces time to market for these new broadband services. More Info
Smallworld Logical Network Inventory™
Logical Network Inventory is known for the design and documentation of logical network inventories including network elements, bearer circuits, customer circuits and services. This is an optional capability. The Physical Network Inventory may be integrated with other logical inventory and service management products such as Cramer. More Info
Smallworld Network Inventory Gateway™
Network Inventory Gateway is built on top of the Smallworld Internet Application Server™ and provides Internet and Intranet access to the data in the Smallworld Network Inventory database. Users with specific tasks, such as remote maintenance engineers, can access inventory data through process - oriented GUIs designed specifically for their job function. Network Inventory Gateway offers three supported product offerings - Physical Browser (query, view, print, tracing to support remote maintenance and repair), Physical Browser Markup (redlining capability provided on Physical Browser) and Network Inventory Gateway eMaps (automatic map generation for applications such as "dial before you dig") - as well as the possibility for custom solutions to suit individual customized requirements. More Info
Smallworld Bearer Management™
Bearer Management Provides the capability to allow Physical Network Inventory to be integrated with logical inventory systems such as Cramer and MetaSolv or existing legacy inventory systems. Bearer Management extends Physical Network Inventory to allow recording of physical bearers and the integration with the logical inventory provides business process support for network planning through to service fulfilment. More Info
Smallworld™ Physical Resource Assignment
Smallworld Physical Resource Assignment extends Smallworld Bearer Management to enable fully automated physical path assignment. All the relevant physical network resources are assigned to a service request – whether the service request is from within an operator’s own business or from a third party provider. Smallworld Physical Resource Assignment utilises the TM Forum MTOSI standard to provide an API which allows service requests to be received and processed. Smallworld Physical Resource Assignment is built on a J2EE application server using an Oracle database to provide the performance and scalability that Tier 1 telecommunications need from such a solution.
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GE's Smallworld Core Spatial Technology™
The Smallworld Network Inventory™ is built on a leading GIS platform, which has been deployed at over 1,000 customer sites across the world. The Smallworld Core Spatial Technology supports some of the largest deployments of GIS-based applications in utility and telecommunications companies.
The Core Spatial Technology layer is a powerful, scalable, version-managed Geographic Information System and the enabling technology for industry-specific applications. A wide variety of applications have been built on the unified architecture of the Core Spatial Technology including Physical Network Inventory, Logical Network Inventory, Network Inventory Gateway and Spatial Intelligence applications, which are part of the Smallworld Network Inventory product suite for the communications industry.
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Smallworld Network Inventory™ Customers
Over 100 telecommunications network operators use the Smallworld Network Inventory to manage their communication networks in 37 countries worldwide. Telecoms network operators are revolutionizing their business processes by using Smallworld Network Inventory in a variety of environments:
Incumbent, large-scale telecom operators such as Deutsche Telekom, Swisscom, Telstra, Telmex, Telecom New Zealand, Slovak Telekom, Croatia Telekom, Kazakhstan Telecom and Telkom South Africa
Long distance business-focused service providers such as Abovenet, US Signal, Global Crossing and RCN
Competitive local service providers such as TelstraClear, MetroWEB, KDDI, Netia, Fastweb, StarHub and netcologne
Innovative cable television companies such as Unity Media, Cox Communications and ONO
Mobile network operators such as Orange and Bharti Airtel
While existing customers continue to expand their use of Smallworld Network Inventory, the number of new customers deploying this solution also continues to steadily increase. In the last three years nearly 30 new customers have adopted Smallworld, these include KDDI, Slovak Telekom, Bharti Airtel, Fairpoint, Neos, Neotel, ZON and Tata Communications.
Case Studies
GE has a proven track record of delivering solutions based on Smallworld Network Inventory to communications providers across the world for over a decade. Whether you are delivering 'triple play' services on FTTH, or high bandwidth services over mobile networks or managing DSL services over large copper networks, GE has many successful references and case studies demonstrating clear benefits and return on investment.
OSS/BSS Integration
Customers can realize the full value of GE's Smallworld Network Inventory™ when it is fully integrated into critical business and operational processes. These processes will be using a variety of other systems including CRM, ERP and Operational Support Systems. These systems cannot respond to customer requests, fault events or undertake provisioning activities without knowledge of the existing or planned state of the network. This information is held within the Smallworld Network Inventory. View OSS/BSS Integration
Geospatial Systems 
