NAVTEQ and GeoTel Communications Team Up for Telecom Content

NAVTEQ (www.navteq.com), a provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced that it is collaborating with GeoTel Communications (www.geo-tel.com), a provider of telecommunications infrastructure datasets.

NAVTEQ is working with GeoTel Communications to associate its NAVSTREETS™ center line data to GeoTel’s MetroFiber™ database. This linked dataset is designed to support multiple industry functions, from operations and network management, to capacity planning and disaster
preparation.

The NAVSTREETS centerline data is a spatially accurate representation of the nation’s road network. The GeoTel metro fiber layer is a dataset containing telecommunications fiber optic networks, from more than 285 carriers and network providers, for cities throughout the United
States.

The new offering, NAVSTREETS for Telecom, will enable users to easily visualize a carrier’s metro fiber network, current areas of fiber market penetration and competitive threats.

Users in industries outside communications including real estate, emergency response and town planning can employ the data to determine the location of new buildings, potential impact of an NAVTEQ 1 emergency on telecom facilities, potential for economic development in a specific area and the extent of available communications services in a particular market area.

“GeoTel is excited to work with NAVTEQ to create a highly accurate and reliable telecom database product,” commented, Dave Drazen, Chief Executive Officer, GeoTel Communications.

 “The relationship between NAVTEQ and GeoTel was a natural fit due to GeoTel’s depth of knowledge of the telecom industry and NAVTEQ’s mapping expertise,” commented Roy Kolstad, Sr.Vice President, NAVTEQ.

GeoTel Communications, Inc is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and is the leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in a geographic information system (GIS).

These two items integrated into one digital data set gives leverage and insight into the competitive metropolitan fiber optic landscape across America.