Case Study: Eagle Telecom achieves faster, safer, centimeter-accurate FTTH mapping with Trimble MX7 mobile mapping solution

3D mobile mapping brings efficiency, safety and precision to multifaceted infrastructure projects

Eagle Telecom, a Fredericton, New Brunswick–based FTTH specialist, faced slow, risky and sometimes inaccurate field surveys for telecommunications and municipal asset mapping. Traditional walking GNSS surveys were time-consuming and exposed crews to hazards along highways, busy streets and railways, creating a need for a faster, safer way to capture decimeter-accurate field data.

Eagle adopted Trimble MX7 mobile mapping with a Trimble R2 GNSS receiver and MX Asset Modeler, driving 125 km on Grand Manan to collect 150,000 images and locate 3,700 poles in 10 hours—capturing in 12 minutes what previously took a two-person crew seven hours—at 3–5 cm accuracy. The approach enabled full FTTH network design (bringing service to ~99% of the island), expanded projects across Atlantic Canada (including Eskasoni and a 600‑km PEI build), and spawned two new business divisions, Eagle GIS and Eagle Municipal.

Eagle Telecom

Dan McCarthy

President