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
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