Press Releases
February, 2003
Rolta Selected for Migration & Conversion Project with TELUS Communications
Telephone Outside Plant Facilities to be Merged on the Intergraph FRAMME platform
Atlanta, Georgia, February 2003: TELUS Communications is one of Canada's leading providers of data, Internet Protocol (IP), fixed line and wireless voice communications services. TELUS provides fixed line services to approximately four and a half million subscribers in Alberta and British Columbia.
Rolta has been awarded a data services contract to integrate the British Columbia TELUS data into the Intergraph FRAMME based IMAGE format that TELUS uses in its Alberta and National service territories.
In the British Columbia service territory, TELUS currently has approximately 80% of its outside plant records mechanized in the Integrated Computer Graphics System (ICGS) application. The remaining 20% of their records are maintained in a manual environment.
Rolta will be converting the manual outside plant records using its proprietary MicroStation & Oracle based data conversion system. The converted data will be directly imported into the FRAMME dataset for delivery. Rolta will migrate the ICGS data into the conversion system. Corrections and additions will be made, and the data will be thoroughly checked using automated and visual methods before it is migrated to the IMAGE delivery format.
According to Henry Gingras, TELUS Manager, Information Services: TELUS is very excited about the opportunities this project will provide to synchronize the Network Provisioning process and application model throughout all of TELUS' Network Provisioning operations. The efficiencies gained by a Design on Line model will stage TELUS for increased growth in our National market, and provides the backbone for future Network Provisioning integration with TELUS Quebec, where Intergraph FRAMME is used as the core Network Provisioning application.
The project started in June 2002 with initial data mapping activities, Conversion Vendor discussions, and the issuing of an RFP, after which TELUS issued a contract to Rolta International Inc. in December 2002. The project is scheduled for completion in June 2003.
About Rolta: Rolta International, Inc., a subsidiary of Rolta India Limited, provides photogrammetry, mapping, data conversion and related services to GIS users in North and South America and in the Asia/Pacific Region. Major GIS clients include telecoms, utility companies, local governments and state and federal government agencies. Rolta also provides e-business solutions and technical services to users of mechanical design automation and plant design automation tools. Rolta has other subsidiaries in Europe and the Middle East.
