Southern New England Telephone (SNET)

Southern New England Telephone (SNET), the telecommunications company serving Connecticut, had historically utilized a closed architecture as the primary method of maintaining outside plant records. With a significant investment of 70,000 plant records already maintained in a hybrid raster/vector environment, SNET needed a solution to convert, maintain and improve the editing efficiency of its' plant record network.

As the end of the year was approaching, SNET was introduced to a similar situation at SouthWest Bell, where AutoCAD and an array of GTXRaster CAD tools were being successfully used to maintain their records. GTX products offered ease of integration and superior performance based on benchmarks conducted by SNET.

The Teamwork

Autodesk's major account representative, Steve Powers elected to team with Open Archive Systems, Inc., an industry leader in raster enabling issues, and OrthoCADD, an AutoCAD VAR. This Partnership provided SNET with professional training services and supported a smooth transition ahead of schedule.

The Solution

Within two months, SNET placed an initial order for 79 AutoCAD/GTX seats to operate within the Windows environment. In addition, SNET incorporated a front end database manager, AutoManager from Cyco. The Myriad hybrid Viewer was chosen for viewing/print capabilities and easy integration with Autodesk WorkCenter and Cyco AutoManager.