MonCre Telephone Selects Bentley Communications Products
 ORLANDO,
Florida (NTCA 2007 Annual Meeting & EXPO), February 7, 2007 – Bentley
Systems, Incorporated today announced that the MonCre Telephone Cooperative,
which serves members in a 500-square-mile rural area of Alabama, has
selected Bentley communications software to support its new fiber
infrastructure. By providing more accurate real-time data, the software is
making it easier for MonCre’s teams to do scenario planning, model future
demand, and provide accurate reports to management and the board of
trustees.
Commenting on the benefits of the new software, Thomas Tapley, an
engineer at MonCre, said, “We have made a positive step forward in deploying
a system that makes us more nimble, more knowledgeable, and more effective.
We will continue to build on these initial successes until all of our
network assets are documented, viewed, and manipulated in a single
environment.”
Prior to deploying the Bentley communications products, MonCre had been
struggling with multiple sources of data based on CAD files, Excel
spreadsheets, and a variety of documentation. As Tapley explained, “We had
an overriding objective of going beyond static CAD-based documentation to
introduce an intelligent network engineering system. This means that we
would move from having several conflicting views of the network to a single
source of data that all users would share. We decided to start with the
newest part of our network, the fiber backbone, which connects 35 fiber wire
centers.”
Unlike many rural communications organizations, all of MonCre’s copper
and fiber plant is direct buried. This helps the cooperative provide a high
quality of service with few service interruptions due to storms. However,
managing buried assets can be a challenge.
Bentley communications products are used to support streamlined workflows
for circuit assignment and provisioning of this underground cabling. “As a
result,” said Tapley, ” it is now easier for us to distinguish between our
optical circuits for DSL versus circuits for telephony and to be sure that
we are fully utilizing our fiber assets.” This is important because every
user across MonCre’s 500-square-mile territory has the option to access
broadband services.
MonCre knew that the process of migrating from CAD-based printed outputs
to an intelligent network model would require careful evaluation. As Tapley
pointed out, “Although the benefits of moving from our old systems to the
Bentley solution make enormous sense, we were careful to do our research
before we made this decision. We looked at eight or nine different vendors
before opting for Bentley. The key for us is that Bentley offers a solution
that is comprehensive, does not require customization, and is not dependent
on any third-party components.”
Richard Zambuni, global marketing director, Bentley Geospatial, said,
“Bentley is committed to providing world-class solutions for intelligent
network engineering to rural communications service providers. Though many
of these organizations are small, they still must offer their customers a
wide range of services of the highest quality and level of performance. This
means they need software solutions that provide advanced functionality at an
affordable total cost of ownership.”
Added Zambuni, “We are gratified that the MonCre Telephone Cooperative
has joined the growing number of rural communications service providers that
are taking advantage of Bentley’s intelligent network engineering software
solutions to meet their customers’ demands while operating their businesses
cost-effectively.”
About MonCre Telephone Cooperative
MonCre Telephone Cooperative is a member-owned cooperative based in
Ramer, Alabama. It serves approximately 3500 members in a 500-square-mile
area of Alabama that includes Montgomery, Crenshaw, Pike, and Bullock
counties. Founded in 1954, MonCre currently provides local and long-distance
telephone services, including many advanced calling features, as well as
state-of-the-art Internet services. For more information, visit
www.mon-cre.net/html/home.php.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2000 colleagues around the world,
Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering
News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the
world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent
Daratech research study.
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