RE: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

[Jim Devane <jdevane () switchnap com>]

OSP Insight. Pricey but an excellent tool for OSP documentation. 


-----Original Message-----
From: khatfield () socllc net [mailto:khatfield () socllc net] 
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:24 PM
To: Jason Lixfeld; Jeff Saxe
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

Most of the ones I have seen (2 out of 3) were inhouse/home-grown solutions. 

I believe the other was provided by SA (Scientific Atlanta). I tried to do a quick search on it and it appears that 
product may now be provided by Cisco in partnership with SA.

Best of luck
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason () lixfeld ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:13:35 
To: Jeff Saxe<JSaxe () briworks com>
Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

I've got a client who uses AutoCAD.  They use it exclusively and have a pretty big fibre network for someone who's not 
an ILEC, so I guess it works fairly well.

On 2010-08-27, at 11:39 AM, Jeff Saxe wrote:

> Good morning, NANOGers. My colleague at work wonders if anyone has suggestions for software to database all our fiber 
> plant that we're constructing. We started out with paper, then Excel spreadsheets in a folder and on paper in a book, 
> but clearly as our plant grows and we do more splicing this is not going to scale. We have started a MySQL database 
> with a few tables, but wonder if someone has already invented this wheel.
>
> What do the "big boys" use? Homegrown solutions developed in-house and jealously guarded? Something standard? 
> Expensive or cheap? Free open-source? He'd like to see...
>
> outside plan facilities: cables, fibers, splice points, poles; copper and fiber, preferably, but fiber is more 
> important
> "circuit" or "DLR" that knows what elements are involved in a circuit
> GIS integration so that cables can be drawn on a map automagically
> low cost, of course
>
> Thanks in advance, everyone.
>
> -- Jeff Saxe, Network Engineer
> Blue Ridge InternetWorks, Charlottesville, VA
> 434-817-0707 ext. 2024  /  JSaxe () briworks com