Quick Pole Applications

Quick Pole can help with your top Pole Line business challenges.

See how Quick Pole can help with real business solutions.

At Sonideft we listen to the various opportunities and challenges people have with their business, related to Pole Line Design. One approach cannot fit everyone's needs, so we built Quick Pole to support multiple approaches and business focus so that you can get your job done.

We have helped many customers address fiber to the home builds, fiber to the node builds, rural broadband initiatives, cable relief and customer driven requests, pole line rebuilds, pole attachment requests, develop utility standards and entire network audits, to mention a few.

Here are the most common scenarios we have encountered:

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Creating, updating or re-evaluating design standards

Situation

  • You need to update existing design/construction standards.
  • You need to review current standards.
  • You need to creating additional standards.

Challenge

  • How can you do this while ensuring national standards compliance, cost effectiveness, regulatory compliance and meet the goals of the business?

Implication

  • If national standards compliance is not ensured, the business is exposed to potential legal liabilities, unwanted critique from their regulator and poor public image.
  • If cost effectiveness is not considered, the amount of infrastructure supported or augmented by capital and maintenance programs will be decreased.
  • If software makes assumptions or unnecessary simplifications, decisions could result in prematurely retired infrastructure.

Solution

  • A wide range of national standards are strictly enforced.
  • The scope of standards enforced is continuously expanded.
  • The most accurate assessment of model poles is ensured, using your design/construction standards.
  • Quick Pole is one of the most accurate solutions on the market and can help ensure you know the real impact of your existing or proposed standards across many categories of concerns.
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Dealing with Pole Attacher attachments

Situation

  • You are looking to make an application to attach to another company's poles. The request needs to include an assessment of the impact to the existing pole line.

Challenge

  • How do I ensure the attachment request includes an accurate assessment of the situation and that it addresses:
    • National and pole owner standards
    • Structural capacity of pole structures, guys and anchors
    • Clearances of attachments over roadways, driveways and other situations
    • Separations of attachments on the pole
    • Mid-span separations between power and communication attachments

Implication

  • If any safety requirement is overlooked or reviewed with incorrect assumptions, the result could be significant damage or injury to property or persons.
  • If a second attachment request from a different provider is received after the first was approved, it is especially important all requirements were addressed properly the first time. Failure can result in difficult financial negotiations with this most recent Pole Attacher and a degradation of image amongst professional designers.

Solution

  • Quick Pole strictly enforces national and pole owner standards onto any design submitted with an attachment request by a Pole Attacher.
  • Guarantees accuracy of analysis in all the critical areas of structural capacity, clearances and separations.
  • Whether third parties submit their attachment request with their Quick Pole results or their provided results are re-inputted to Quick Pole, you can rest assured that many of the critical assessments are accurate and complete.
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Reducing dependence on multiple software tools

Situation

  • You require a set of software tools to assist with pole assessments and the creation/maintenance of their standards.

Challenge

  • What is the most cost effective option?
  • How do I ensure pole assessment requirements are met, including:
    • Structural analysis
    • Sags, tension and clearance calculations
    • Mid-span and on-pole separation tests
    • Additional tests for pole owner specific standards
    • Extensive reporting of results

Implication

  • If I can find software tools to perform all these functions, can they:
    • Understand the "context" that each tool uses when providing their results?
    • Transpose data from one tool to another so that the others can perform their function?
    • Ensure all software tool results are reasonable and consistent?

Solution

  • Quick Pole has built all these features into one integrated software package.
  • Our software understands the context that each feature provides and enforces consistency throughout.
  • Quick Pole provides the best overall value.
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Dealing with crossing permits

Situation

  • Designing a railway, highway, river, lake or other water crossing where the spans are long and safety requirements are high.

Challenge

  • Is there a software tool that can perform detailed sags and tension calculations to handle:
    • Nonlinear material characteristics of one or two materials in the wire or cable.
    • Understands the difference between the conditions of initial, final after creep, final after load.
    • How to properly deal with elevation changes.
    • Can accept a wide range of stringing tension settings and temperature limits.

Implication

  • The consequences of failing to get the most accurate estimate of the span attachment caused by sags, tension and clearance, potentially leading to significant safety risk ranging from property damage, road/river closures and loss of life.

Solution

  • Quick Pole has built-in sags and tensions calculator with very extensive options for tension setting, viewing and reporting of results.
  • Generates accurate results with less than 1% difference.
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Attachment permits

Situation

  • You have to submit an attachment permit along with supporting information to show the pole owner that their requirements have been addressed in the areas of national and pole owner standards and all attached structures will be safe.
  • You need to minimize the amount of structure make ready to only what is required, due to cost and timeline implications.

Challenge

  • How can we ensure that all of the pole owner requirements are addressed?
  • How can we be flexible to the different needs of each pole owner?
  • How can we reliably prove to pole owners that the permit documentation we have provided is accurate and addresses all requirements?

Implication

  • If requirements are missed and the attachment permit is sent back, what will this cost in terms of money, time and delayed benefits from the attachment?
  • If we provide software results that appear to have made assumptions or simplifications, what will this cost in terms of delays and and re-working the attachment permit?
  • If we use software that is unable to accurately assess pole lines, what will this cost in terms of  money, time and delayed benefits from the attachment?

Solution

  • Quick Pole ensures that all pole owners' requirements are thoroughly assessed across all poles in the attachment permit.
  • It guarantees compliance with national standards.
  • It provides accurate assessments of pole lines and reducing their structure make ready costs by up to 50% compared to other solutions.
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Purchasing software for pole line assessments

Situation

  • Acquiring a set of software tools to assist with creating pole attachment permits.

Challenge

  • Which is my most cost effective option?
  • Which tool is the most accurate to minimize structure make ready costs?
  • Which tool addresses all the  different functions required for attachment permits, like:
    • Structural analysis.
    • Sags, tension and clearance calculations.
    • Mid-span, on-pole separation and additional tests for pole owner specific standards.
    • Extensive reporting of results.

Implication

  • If I can find a software tools to perform all these functions, will I be able to address the following?
    • Will I be able to understand the "context" that each tool uses when providing results?
    • How do I transpose data from one tool to another so that the others can perform their function?
    • How can I implement some quality control so that the results of all the software tools are reasonable and are consistent?
    • How do I determine the overall impact to structure make ready costs?

Solution

  • All features are built into one integrated software package.
  • We understand the context each feature provides and enforce consistency throughout.
  • Our tools have some of the best analysis features available for the most accurate assessment, helping lower structure make ready costs.
  • Quick Pole provides the best overall value.
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Consideration of alternate cable routes to reduce costs

Situation

  • Need to consider alternatives to the high costs of make ready in certain sections of your proposed project.

Challenge

  • Since structure make ready requirements are largely determined via pole line design software tools, the tool used needs to assist with the efficient evaluation of other alternatives like other cable routes, different attachment heights, etc. so what is my best option?

Implication

  • If a pole line design software tool makes the process of evaluating other alternatives laborious and possibly prone to error, what are the chances the alternatives evaluated may be reduced, resulting in missed opportunities?

Solution

  • We understand the need for multiple scenarios and enable a complete copy of existing designs with two clicks of a mouse.
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Adapting quickly to hiring new staff needed for generating attachment permits

Situation

  • You finally landed that large contract to generate attachment permits and need to hire a lot of new people into your company.

Challenge

  • How can new staff get proficient on a new pole line design software tool with minimal downtime?

Implication

  • If the software tool chosen is difficult to use or understand, cost and timelines can be significantly affected, resulting in slow completion of attachment permits.

Solution

  • Quick Pole is easy to use and requires minimal training to get users proficient.
  • The process flow for an attachment permit flows naturally and user provided feedback in various forms is intuitive.
  • Classroom and online training is available.
  • Direct support from Sonideft is available for difficult poles or situations.
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