Re: fiber plant management?

["Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Martin Hannigan wrote:

> Honestly? A spreadsheet will do it.

Our fiber plant is large enough, and enough people make changes that a 
spreadsheet is not a scalable option.

jms

> On 2/4/10, Justin M. Streiner <streiner () cluebyfour org> wrote:
> > 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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