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fiber plant management?


From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:56:22 -0500 (EST)

To those of you who currently operate large campus/metro fiber plants, what are you currently using to track the usage of that plant? By that I mean things such as:
* tracking the number of free/used/unusable strands in a cable
* tracking conduit utilization
* tying OTDR test results/power meter readings to strands
* trying as-built drawings to cable routes and plant assets like
        manholes, junction boxes, transition splice points, duct banks,
        utility poles, etc.
* mapping termination bays to cables
* tracking cross-connects and splice locations
* grouping cable segments and cross-connects together into a path/circuit
* utilization reports, etc.

I've looked at one or two commercial packages, and might look at more as time permits. I haven't seen much in the open-source world, and I suspect that many places ended up rolling their own management apps to tie into existing provisioning systems, etc. It's possible that I could end up going that route as well.

jms


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