Re: fiber plant management?

[Tim Jackson <jackson.tim () gmail com>]

We're in the process of evaluating:

http://www.stellarrad.com/windowsbased/stellarmap.cfm

So far it looks OK... Our OSP guys & technicians seem happy with it,
which is the important part... Something that helps them identify
where a potential problem or where plant is down is the #1 goal we're
after.. The hardest part is actually gathering the data to put into
the system, we're gathering every pole & every splice to enter into
the system...

And no, an Excel sheet does not work...

--
Tim

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner () cluebyfour org> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hannigan                               martin () theicelandguy com
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> > Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants