ECHO Broadband

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ECHO empowers customers to offer a versatile and capable network, promotes flexible service creation & to be a driver of business innovation.

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Our Services

We aim to reduce our customers' CAPEX and OPEX by providing innovative services. This will enable them to increase their profitability and ability to expand to meet demand.

About ECHO

Over 15 years, with offices in US, Europe and Asia, ECHO has successfully delivered telecom, GIS and apps development projects to our customers in US, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Our Clients

ECHO has successfully delivered many telecommunication engineering and GIS projects to more than 20 majors customers around the world in the last 15 years.

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Projects

  • Telecom Engineering
  • GIS
  • Data Conversion
  • Right Sourcing
  • Apps Development
Fiber network data conversion & GIS for a power company

Fiber network data conversion & GIS for a power company

Client: Xcel Energy Inc., USA

Fiber network data conversion & GIS for a power company

ECHO performed data conversion to centralize the fiber network, microwave and radio system into the target Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. The main scope of work included converting and updating outside plan fiber network; loading and ensuring activation of splice enclosure connectivity; creating light path, circuit and tracing; converting the geographical location of substation/offsite/site buildings; converting microwave radio site setup, internal world and additional objects; executing site name verification and radio license association; and GIS system support and specification development.

Project Details:

  • Client: Xcel Energy Inc., USA
  • Date: 2012 to 2013

Milestones achieved

  • Fiber network with splice cases ~ 1,500km
  • Microwave/Radio Towers ~ 350 towers
  • Substation floor plan data capture ~ 700 units

Milestones achieved

  • Developed and modeled RME and network objects ~ 1000 units
  • Developed Smallworld automation and QAQC tools for data conversion

Software Utilized

  • SW Network Inventory
  • PNI 4.3 coax
  • PNI 4.3 fiber
  • PNI 4.3 inside plant
  • wireless network inventory

Software Utilized

  • ifactor web maps connector (imagery)
  • special object manager (SOMS)
  • Citrix version
  • True view

 

HFC/CATV & Wifi engineering data conversion & GIS

HFC/CATV & Wifi engineering data conversion & GIS

Client: Cablevision System Corporation, USA

HFC/CATV & Wifi engineering data conversion & GIS

ECHO has been providing engineering and GIS services to Cablevision in project management, turnkey GIS data management, data conversion and engineering of HFC/CATV network and WiFi services. The major scope of work involves RF plan extension as-built; as-built WiFi AP into the GIS platform; AP design and drafting; node split capacity expansion; creation of light path, circuit and tracing; provision of fibre rack mounted equipment for MDU; data capture of civil and HFC/CATV network for MDU; and update and captured fibre as-built.

Project Details

  • Client: Cablevision System Corporation, USA
  • Date: 2005 to present

Milestones achieved

  • RF network re-drafting ~ 40,000 miles
  • Fibre network re-drafting ~ 13,000 miles
  • Route network re-drafting ~ 45,000 miles

Milestones achieved

  • Address points re-drafting ~ 4 million
  • Landbase re-drafting ~ 50,000 miles
  • Fibre network as-built ~ 20,000 splices

Milestones achieved

  • RF network as-built ~ 5,000 miles
  • MDU buildings internal network ~ 8,500 units
  • RME internal network data capture ~ 67 hubs

Milestones achieved

  • AP engineering and data capture ~ 31,200 units
  • As-built WiFi and RF extensions ~ 6,900 nodes

Software Utilized:

  • Smallworld PNI4.0
  • AutoCAD
  • SW Developer Edition
  • SW Network Inventory
  • PNI4.0 Coax
  • PNI4.0 Fiber

Software Utilized:

  • PNI4.0 Inside Plant
  • PNI4.0 Job Manager
  • Special Object Manager
  • SW Database Replication
  • CITRIX version 10
  • Lode Data Design

 

 

Fiber, HFC/CATV network, data conversion & GIS

Fiber, HFC/CATV network, data conversion & GIS

Client: Cox Communications Inc., USA

Fiber, HFC/CATV network, data conversion & GIS

ECHO was asked to integrate multiple data sources into one GIS system and integrate the resulting GIS system with new processes for record maintenance. The main scope of work included landbase conversion; fiber, CATV, civil and route conversion to the new target GIS system; updating and capturing address points; re-engineering RF network, fiber and RF as-built data capture; vendor on-boarding; system on-boarding i.e., development of guidelines, processes and acceptance.

Project Details:

  • Client: Cox Communications Inc., USA
  • Date: 2007 to 2008

Milestones achieved

  • Fiber & RF network re-drafting ~ 50,000 miles
  • Route network re-drafting ~ 40,000 miles
  • Address points drafting ~ 4 million points

Milestones achieved

  • Landbase re-drafting ~ 50,000 miles
  • RF Network As-builts ~ 5,000 miles
  • Fiber Network As-builts ~ 20,000 splices

Software Utilized:

  • Smallworld PNI4.0
  • AutoCAD
  • Microstation
  • SW Developer Edition
  • SW Network Inventory

Software Utilized:

  • PNI 4.0 Coax
  • PNI 4.0 Fiber
  • PNI 4.0 Inside Plant
  • PNI 4.0 Job Manager
  • Special Object Managers
  • SW Database Replication

Software Utilized:

  • Citrix version 10
  • Lode Data Design
  • Realworld Lightpath Fiber Management
Data conversion & logical network inventory system implementation

Data conversion & logical network inventory system implementation

Client: AboveNet Inc., USA

Data conversion & logical network inventory system implementation

ECHO provide initial consultancy to specify the data conversion guidelines and standard templates for the conversion (auto migration and manual capture) of the existing network from multiple formats (i.e., Excel, Visio, PDF and Network management system logs) to the target GIS platform. The scope of work included verifying the quality and integrity of the existing physical outside plant for fiber and splice closure, and rack mounted equipment (RME); and object associations between physical and logical data. We utilized our proprietary auto conversion and QAQC tools to auto migrate and verify data accuracy. ECHO also pioneered a two-stage process to provide data conversion between the physical and logical databases.

Project Details:

  • Client: AboveNet Inc., USA
  • Date: 2007

Milestones achieved

  • Converted MS Excel to GE Smallworld LNI system ~ 1,000 circuits
  • Converted Visio/PDF to GE Smallworld PNI/LNI ~ 2,000 schematics

Milestones achieved

  • Converted NMS test/csv logs to Smallworld LNI ~ 1,250 network elements & 8,300 service ports

Milestones achieved

  • Converted Smallworld PNI to Smallworld LNI ~ 450 physical facilities & 2,000 light path
Data conversion of a HFC/CATV inventory & GIS database and customer information

Data conversion of a HFC/CATV inventory & GIS database and customer information

Client: Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia

Data conversion of a HFC/CATV inventory & GIS database and customer information

ECHO was engaged to update and align Telstra’s key inventory systems including national addressing, providing network information; and customer and cable pair information, optical fiber, internal equipment and exchange floor space. ECHO undertook 56 scopes of work covering network update of RF, fiber, copper, CadLink, route and cadastre. It also includes the data capture of NBN related infrastructures.

Project Details:

  • Client: Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
  • Date: 2010 to present

Milestones achieved

  • Fiber plant converted ~ 13,000km
  • Facility floor plans converted ~ 7,300 units

Milestones achieved

  • Copper & civil route network converted ~ 13,000km
  • Property lots captured ~ 1,500 lots

Milestones achieved

  • MDU buildings captured ~ 3,100 buildings
  • Property lots captured ~ 62,000 lots
  • Address captured ~ 750,000

Milestones achieved

  • Fiber access points captured ~ 80,000 points
  • Network equipment layout captured ~ 11,000 equipment

 

HFC/CATV engineering and field survey engineering

HFC/CATV engineering and field survey engineering

Client: Asia Broadcasting Network (M) Sdn. Bhd. (ABNxcess), Malaysia

HFC/CATV engineering and field survey engineering

ECHO was selected by ABNxcess as its primary engineering firm to provide field survey and HFC/CATV engineering for the MDUs. We were tasked to deliver 650,000 homes passed of HFC/CATV engineering and field survey. The main scope of work included performing data acquisition and reviewing node boundary of the MDU; field verifying node locations; address verification and capture; proposing cable routes & equipment locations; HFC planning, engineering & drafting; developing the Bill of Materials (BOM) template for construction; and proposing remote powering of the HFC/CATV network.

Project Details:

  • Client: Asia Broadcasting Network (M) Sdn. Bhd. (ABNxcess), Malaysia
  • Date: 2013 to current

Milestones achieved

  • MDU Addresses verified & captured ~ 120,000 addresses
  • Field Survey and Engineering completed ~ 120,000 homes passed

Milestones achieved

  • Fiber node location verification and captured ~ 240 units
  • HFC planning and engineering completed ~ 110,000 homes passed
System audit, GIS software upgrade, survey & data conversion for a gas company

System audit, GIS software upgrade, survey & data conversion for a gas company

Client: Gas Malaysia Berhad (GMB), Malaysia

System audit, GIS software upgrade, survey & data conversion for a gas company

ECHO is GMB’s primary GIS service provider. We have provided audit support to it’s GIS system & database and were the system specialist to upgrade its GE Energy’s Gas Distribution Office (GDO) v4.1.1 GIS platform for gas. The main scope of work involves GIS IT hardware upgrade and software upgrades; customized tools upgrade; GIS database upgrade; creation of new liquid petroleum gas objects in the GDO; network and landbase data conversion; implementation of auto backup & database process/procedures and functionality; GDO system administration and training; and GIS system audit; capture of ordinance coordinate of critical component locations.

Project Details:

  • Client: Gas Malaysia Berhad (GMB), Malaysia
  • Date: 2005 to present

Milestones achieved

  • As-built captured and field verified ~ 1,500km
GIS database conversion for a power company

GIS database conversion for a power company

Client: Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia

GIS database conversion for a power company

ECHO developed a GIS base system for TNB’s Distribution Network Information Management (DNIM) project. The scope of work included logical data inventory analysis, data conversion and migration; building GIS database; and QAQC process and procedure implementation.

Project Details:

  • Client: Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia
  • Date: 2005 to 2006
GIS software integration and application development for a city command center

GIS software integration and application development for a city command center

Client: Cyberjaya City Command Center (CCC), Malaysia

GIS software integration and application development for a city command center

ECHO was selected to integrate a GIS system and capabilities utilizing the existing Command Center and Community systems that manage traffic, monitor and control utility services; and provide web-based virtual community services. The major scope of work included GIS implementation; system setup and database administration; application development and customization; GIS SCADA integration & processing; GIS-GPS integration for landbase services (LBS); GIS-Doc Mgt System (DMS) integration; and GIS-Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) integration.

Project Details:

  • Client: Cyberjaya City Command Center (CCC), Malaysia
  • Date: 2002
Database audit, GIS enhancement, network inventory analysis

Database audit, GIS enhancement, network inventory analysis

Client: Fibrecomm Network (M) Sdn. Bhd.

Database audit, GIS enhancement, network inventory analysis

ECHO’s scope of work included Phase 1 & 2 system and database integrity audit, GIS system enhancement, data inventory analysis, user requirement analysis and landbase correction for 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia.

Project Details:

  • Client: Fibrecomm Network (M) Sdn. Bhd.
  • Date: 2005

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  • Telecom Engineering
  • GIS
  • Data conversion
  • Right Sourcing
  • Apps Development

Telecom Engineering

  • Primary ring plan
  • Access network plan
  • Fibre network
  • Access network
  • Transmission

Telecom Engineering

  • Headend & inside plant
  • Field route survey
  • Capacity planning
  • Projects & document control

Telecom Engineering

  • Test, Implementation & Commissioning
  • Fundamental planning services
  • Program management

GIS

  • Program management
  • System design/admin design
  • Implementation & maintenance
  • Consultancy

GIS

  • Apps development, enhancement & customisation
  • System integration & upgrade
  • Database design/admin

GIS

  • Web application development
  • User requirement analysis
  • Consultancy
  • Logical network doc

Data Conversion

  • Data management plan
  • Network asset due-d
  • Source data analysis & recommendation
  • Database conversion (migrate/capture)

Data Conversion

  • Source data scrubbing & editing
  • Auto data migration
  • Manual data capture
  • Data migration tool development

Data Conversion

  • Data quality control & assurance
  • Database maintenance
  • Database administration
  • Data report development

Right Sourcing

  • Telecom engineering
  • GIS
  • Data conversion (migration/capture)
  • Network drafting
  • OSS/BSS

Right Sourcing

  • As-built updating
  • Database admin & maintenance
  • (Network, GIS, OSS/BSS, CRM, Big data, etc)
  • BPO

Apps Development

  • Engineering/GIS software automation
  • Business process automation
  • Centralized comms platform-web-based

Apps Development

  • Continuous process improvement programs
  • Industry leading integration solution
  • Customized web reports
  • Interface/reporting

Apps Development

  • Physical/logical network tools
  • Device management
  • BSS/OSS integration
  • Monitoring System-Performance analysis

We strive to provide advance innovative services to enable our customers improve operational efficiency. This will ensure that their bottom line would be protected and further expand it.

ECHO's has a wealth of knowledge and experience culminating from 15 years of satisfied customers in US, Europe, Asia and Australia. This will ensure projects are successfully delivered with local resources coupled with global support. Our five main core services are:

Telecom Engineering

Our primary goal is to enable our customers to secure the highest benefit out of every dollar spent. This will maximize their return on investment. Most projects are conceptually identical with a some geographical and technical variation. ECHO will capitalize on past experiences to avoid the usual pitfalls in securing quick wins to put the project ahead. Every minute the network is down, is very minute revenue lost!

GIS

GIS would provide advance location intelligence capabilities by building geographic and business relationships. ECHO will map trends, patterns and dependencies. This will turn subscriber data, marketing activities, data traffic areas into valuable knowledge to secure competitive advantage. GIS would support the whole life cycle of the network. This would include planning, field support, provisioning and defining, in addition to supporting sales and marketing programs.

Data Conversion

ECHO will standardized the data into a single digital format, it enable ease of retrieval and manipulation. It will be ease of retrieve and manipulate the data in providing quick business and spatial analysis to support decision-making. We will update and maintain the database via real-time processing or batch processing to ensure accuracy and relevancy. This will enable the ease of production of various cartography for different usage.

Right Sourcing

Our low cost structure with an advance IT infrastructure, housed in a secured world-class facility, provide competitive pricing to our customers. For customer who emphasizes on quality, quality, quality, we suite for them. We advocate results that promote cost effective and efficient operation that is able to respond rapidly towards stakeholder demand. For long-term projects, ECHO provides services off-shore and for short term, on-shore or a combination of both.

Apps Development

ECHO has developed over 100 tools/systems for various types of telecom engineering, automated data conversion and QAQC requirements. Maintaining data quality and integrity is critical. The ability to consistently deliver high quality services to the client is the byword of ECHO's success. We cultivate a company culture that promotes R&D of tools to improve automation, quality and speed of work.

  • Customer first
  • Consumer empowerment
  • Value-Add
  • Enable paradigm shift
  • Further monetize business
  • Reveal hidden trends

Trends moving forward requires consumer empowerment. We focus on the customer to achieve that. ECHO will match the explosion of mobile data demand by ensuring the customer's network is always-accessible. We will always value-add to ensure the customer's success and in turn protect their bottom line. This is achieved by combining advance telecom engineering and geographical information system (GIS) with high quality services from ECHO.

Telecom & CATV broadband operators today are faced with a huge challenges. The advent demand for superior high speed connectivity will push the market to new heights. This is propagated by the enormous explosion of smartphone and tablet uptake and the implementation of gigabit broadband. ECHO enables customers to meet this paradigm shift to stay relevant.

We reveal hidden trends, implement on-demand cloud based strategy, and further promotes SaaS. The ability to download and utilize software anytime/anywhere in a network that is available 24 x 7 will ensure success. This will extend the customer's ability to further monetize their business.

We know what you want, so that is what we provide. ECHO has successful delivered projects to more than 20 majors customers globally in the last 15 years. This has allowed us to develop and continue to improve proven processes. In additional, an effective global project delivery begins and ends with close collaboration with the customer.

Our drivers are:

  • Customer focus
  • Empowering our customer's customer
  • Review and improve
  • Continuous innovation
  • Providing peace of mind

Our drivers are:

  • Being responsive
  • Flexible to adopt changes
  • Reliability
  • Quality
  • Responsibility

Our drivers are:

  • Competitive pricing
  • Transfer of cost saving
  • Cost conscious
  • Constantly adopting new technology
  • Being attentive
  • 15 years of experience
  • More than 20 customers
  • Tier 1 - Global clients
  • ISO certified since 2006
  • Very focus
  • Innovative & committed to quality

We have served more than 20 major customers in USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. Four companies i.e., ECHO Broadband, Inc (Denver, US), ECHO Broadband GmbH (Siegburg, German), ECHO Broadband Ireland Ltd (Galway, Ireland) and ECHO Broadband Sdn. Bhd. (Penang & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) represents ECHO internationally. Our operation in Malaysia has grown to be one of the largest low cost telecom engineering, GIS and application development firm in South East Asia.

At ECHO Broadband GmbH, we have been ISO9001:2008 certified since 2006. It is for the implementation and application of a management system in software development, communication and distribution network design. In addition to geospatial data conversion and data migration, project management, consultancy for customized network and database solutions.

ECHO has extensive Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Telecom Engineers, IT Professionals, GIS Specialists and Senior Project Managers. They are from our US, European and Malaysia Offices. Collectively they form a fully integrated ECHO Global Team. ECHO endeavor to deliver projects locally, supported by a global solution to ensure close proximity to the client.

Having grown rapidly securing multi clients around the world with multi year contracts, is a testament to our commitment. ECHO enables the customers to empower, further monetization their businesses and quick adoption of innovation.

ECHO is one of the largest telecom engineering and GIS firm in South East Asia. Several of the world's largest telecom, cable TV and utility operators have trusted ECHO. They engaged ECHO to implement best in class telecom and cable TV network. Our customers are:

USA

  • Altice Corp
  • Cox Communications Inc
  • Xcel Energy Inc
  • AboveNet Inc

Germany

  • Deutsche Telekom AG
  • Unitymedia KabelBW
  • NetCologne Ltd
  • Kabel Deutschland AG
  • EnBW AG

Malaysia

  • TNB Bhd
  • Gas Malaysia Bhd
  • ABNxcess Sdn Bhd
  • Fibrecomm Sdn Bhd
  • Cyberjaya City Command

Australia/Philippines

  • Telsra Corp Ltd
  • Broadband Philippines

France/United Kingdom/Ireland

  • NC NemeriCable
  • Telewest Comms Ltd
  • Chorus NTL
  • UPC Comms Ltd
  • Tier 1 customers
  • Global customers
  • Market leaders
  • Innovative
  • Highly successful
  • Cost conscious
  • Very focus

Our Commitments

We are grateful for the trust that our customers have given us. We endeavor to reciprocate with in Quality, In Budget and On Time services to protect the customer's bottom line.

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USA

ECHO Broadband, Inc.
14 Inverness Drive East
Suite D136
Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: +1 720 212 0800

Malaysia (PG)

Suite 7-1, 7th Floor Menara Penang Garden, 42A, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 10050 Penang.
Phone: +60 4 370 1754
Fax: +60 4 226 1808

Malaysia (PG)

368-5-3, Bellisa Row, Jalan Burmah, 10350 Penang, Malaysia.
Phone: +60 4 229 2618
Fax: +60 4 229 0616

Germany

ECHO Broadband GmbH
Wilhelmstr. 74
53721 Siegburg, Germany
Phone: +49 2241 257720
Fax: +49 2241 2577290

Ireland

ECHO Broadband Ireland Ltd
Corbally, Cummer,
Tuam, Co. Galway,
Ireland.