[129110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Looking for Fiber Plant Management software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Saxe)
Fri Aug 27 11:39:51 2010
From: Jeff Saxe <jsaxe@briworks.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:39:34 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
