[122110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fiber plant management?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Jackson)
Fri Feb 5 16:43:06 2010
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1002051424590.27232@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:42:31 -0600
From: Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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? =A0By th=
at 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
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0manholes, junction boxes, transition splice points, duct=
banks,
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0utility poles, etc.
>>> * mapping termination bays to cables
>>> * tracking cross-connects and splice locations
>>> * grouping cable segments and cross-connects together into a path/circu=
it
>>> * utilization reports, etc.
>>>
>>> I've looked at one or two commercial packages, and might look at more a=
s
>>> time permits. =A0I 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. =A0It's possible that I could end u=
p
>>> going that route as well.
>>>
>>> jms
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Martin Hannigan =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 martin@theicelandguy.com
>> p: +16178216079
>> Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupan=
ts
>>
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