Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that Service Electric Cable TV, Inc. (SECTV) – founder of cable television and a pioneer in the communications industry – has selected Bentley’s hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network engineering solution for the effective and efficient design and management of its cable broadband network. Bentley’s HFC solution, which includes Bentley Coax, Bentley Fiber, Bentley Inside Plant, and Bentley Communications PowerView, replaces disparate CAD, GIS, and spreadsheet systems at SECTV. With this new software, SECTV can accelerate new subscriber activations, network upgrades, extensions, and repairs while increasing productivity across engineering, field operations, marketing, sales, and customer support.
Mike Semmel, mapping supervisor, Service Electric Cable TV, Inc., said, “The seamless database structure of Bentley’s HFC network engineering solution gives us an end-to-end perspective of our system that is simply not available from individual drawings, maps, and spreadsheets. The solution also provides a means to make the intelligent network model available to anyone in the organization through secure web interfaces and field applications. These capabilities, combined with a high-productivity user interface, a proven track record of user-driven product enhancements, and excellent support, made Bentley the best choice for our business.”
Robert Mankowski, Bentley vice president, simulation product management, said, “We are pleased to provide SECTV with technology that will help this service innovator to continue its leadership in the cable industry – leadership it established more than 65 years ago. Bentley’s HFC solution will give SECTV’s teams a comprehensive HFC network design capability that is up to three times faster than other solutions. This purpose-built technology leverages the deepest industry experience in the market to provide unparalleled engineering workflow efficiency. It uniquely includes the precision of CAD and all the benefits of an open enterprise GIS, while providing efficiency across the physical network inventory lifecycle with comprehensive capabilities for design, construction, and operations.”
SECTV selected Bentley after reviewing alternatives against the following criteria:
- the ability to document and maintain an end-to-end intelligent network model;
- the ability to easily share the intelligent network model with any department to improve business decisions and workflows;
- ease of use to minimize training and improve design and management productivity;
- demonstrated product development and alignment with evolving user requirements;
- comprehensive technical support.
