Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software

[Jason Lixfeld <jason () lixfeld ca>]

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