Technology competition at NTCA RTIME recognizes latest advancements in telecommunications.
February 7, 2013 – RICHMOND, VA – For the seventh consecutive year, Mapcom Systems, developers of M4® Solutions, has won a top award at a national industry venue recognizing the latest advancement in telecommunications. This week Mapcom received the 2nd place award at the RTIME (Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & Expo) “Hot Technologies 2013” exhibit, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
RTIME was a ground-breaking event representing the entire rural telecom industry, and was produced jointly by NTCA (National Telecommunications Cooperative Association) and OPASTCO (Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies).
Mapcom’s “Hot Technologies” entry demonstrated their ‘M4 Mobile Tech’ software module and its ability to aid Field Technicians using hand-held devices to manage their daily activities and responsibilities online in a mobile web-based environment. The judging was based on the level of innovation, usefulness, significance of improvement, relevance in the rural marketplace and creativity of display.
Mapcom’s M4 Solutions Software Suite is a visual operations platform from which telecommunications providers can easily manage operations. Current offerings include tools for providing network and infrastructure management, fiber and circuit management, and workforce and fleet management.
The M4 Mobile Tech module represents the latest advancement in Mapcom’s ever-evolving suite of operational software, and offers providers new ways to maximize revenue, monitor operational trends and intelligently interpret the volumes of information within a flexible and open operations solution.
About Mapcom Systems
Mapcom Systems is the developer of M4 Solutions – a visual business operations system that allows service providers to manage their workforce as fiber, coax, wireless and copper networks, including both outside and inside plant at the physical and logical levels. M4 Solutions’ open-system approach enables users to integrate and correlate data from existing billing, accounting, GPS tracking, element management, and network monitoring applications in a powerful visual interface to all network elements. Since 1971, Mapcom has worked with independents, cooperatives, fiber communities, and campus telecommunications providers of all sizes across the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. For more information, visit the Mapcom website at www.mapcom.com.
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