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RE: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Devane)
Fri Aug 27 17:32:07 2010
From: Jim Devane <jdevane@switchnap.com>
To: "khatfield@socllc.net" <khatfield@socllc.net>, Jason Lixfeld
<jason@lixfeld.ca>, Jeff Saxe <JSaxe@briworks.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:31:57 -0700
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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OSP Insight. Pricey but an excellent tool for OSP documentation.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: khatfield@socllc.net [mailto:khatfield@socllc.net]=20
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:24 PM
To: Jason Lixfeld; Jeff Saxe
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software
Most of the ones I have seen (2 out of 3) were inhouse/home-grown solutions=
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I believe the other was provided by SA (Scientific Atlanta). I tried to do =
a quick search on it and it appears that product may now be provided by Cis=
co in partnership with SA.
Best of luck
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:13:35=20
To: Jeff Saxe<JSaxe@briworks.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for Fiber Plant Management software
I've got a client who uses AutoCAD. They use it exclusively and have a pre=
tty big fibre network for someone who's not an ILEC, so I guess it works fa=
irly well.
On 2010-08-27, at 11:39 AM, Jeff Saxe wrote:
> Good morning, NANOGers. My colleague at work wonders if anyone has sugges=
tions 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 pape=
r 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, bu=
t wonder if someone has already invented this wheel.
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> What do the "big boys" use? Homegrown solutions developed in-house and je=
alously 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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