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. > > 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 / js...@briworks.com > > > >
