WiredInUSA-November2015

Streamlining software

Under the sea

India’s Polycab has implemented CableBuilder from InnoVites in its operations. Polycab uses the program to streamline its engineering and product designing processes. CableBuilder allows Polycab to create designs and eliminate human errors. been developed to create, calculate and maintain cable designs for all kinds of cables. This solution is said to help cable manufacturing companies to reduce design and maintenance time, quotation lead times, produce professional looking datasheets and catalogues, improve manufacturing instructions and reduce rework and scrap. CableBuilder comes with an integration module to integrate with ERP systems and synchronize the bill-of-material, the routings and the cable dimensions between systems. CableBuilder software has

Alcatel-Lucent has announced its decision not to sell the undersea cables unit. The business will now be taken over by Nokia on its acquisition of the group. Nokia first revealed the planned $17 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in April as it aims to better compete with Ericsson and Huawei. Alcatel had previously said it planned to sell a majority stake in Alcatel-Lucent submarine networks (ASN) or list the business separately, but has chosen to retain it. The ASN division, which has facilities in France and England, will become part of the new Nokia group once the acquisition is complete. ASN has over 575,000km of fiber optic cable systems deployed worldwide, with the maintenance of 330,000km of undersea systems.

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