Honestly? A spreadsheet will do it. -M< 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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