[129111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Fri Aug 27 12:13:45 2010
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
In-Reply-To: <56C21A0A-6907-4A1D-869D-38EDF9BE7D1F@briworks.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:13:35 -0400
To: Jeff Saxe <JSaxe@briworks.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've got a client who uses AutoCAD. They use it exclusively and have a =
pretty big fibre network for someone who's not an ILEC, so I guess it =
works fairly well.
On 2010-08-27, at 11:39 AM, Jeff Saxe wrote:
> 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.
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> 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...
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> 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
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> Thanks in advance, everyone.
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> -- Jeff Saxe, Network Engineer
> Blue Ridge InternetWorks, Charlottesville, VA
> 434-817-0707 ext. 2024 / JSaxe@briworks.com
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