Furthermore, because Telcordia Network Engineer utilizes ESRI's ArcInfo and ArcSDE as the underlying GIS and database management platform, McLeodUSA will be able to fully leverage the value of an open GIS and provide its entire enterprise access to geographic information. This single facilities repository allows us to analyze, plan, design, build, implement, and maintain our outside plant facilities and permanent records in one application. The tremendous market response to Telcordia Network Engineer reinforces our corporate strategy of providing like products that enable companies to unlock the true potential of GIS technology. Telcordia Network Engineer, codeveloped by Telcordia Technologies and MESA Solutions is a GIS-based design, documentation, and network maintenance system that provides the typical engineering seat with the capability to inventory a full array of copper network plant equipment, fiber network plant equipment, and supporting structure data that can be used to interactively build a connected network of each type. The system combines intelligent spatial database capability with relational database management systems.
Users can create customized maps embedded with intelligence.
This intelligence allows the system to document network facilities, quickly solve complex geographical problems, trace connectivity between network points, and manage network inventory. About McLeodUSA Telecommunications Services McLeodUSA, one of the nation's fastest growing telecommunication companies, provides integrated telecommunication services to customers in 14 Midwest and Rocky Mountain states, with seven additional expansion states to be added this year. The recent acquisition of Splitrock Services, Inc., expands the McLeodUSA marketplace for advanced data and Internet services to all 50 states. In the next 12 months, the Company's publishing subsidiaries plan to distribute more than 25 million white and yellow page directories in 23 states, expected to reach 43 million people. The Telcordia software organization, comprised of operation support systems and service and business management systems, has been ISO 9001 certified, and has been assessed at Level 5, the highest level of the Capability Maturity Model , an industry standard for measuring software development processes that was developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.