Bentley Coax

Network Layout

Bentley Coax uses a graphical routing process based on existing landbase and strand map information such as poles, pedestals, manholes and duct to build an intelligent network model of the coax and related outside plant facilities. Bentley Coax lets you place equipment, layout, and edit. You can design the coax network and calculate signal levels while ensuring the network connectivity is correctly maintained. The user interface is designed to increase engineering productivity and reduce the engineering effort required.

Intelligent Editing

Bentley Coax offers different functions to edit, modify, or delete existing coaxial plant. These functions maintain connectivity throughout the entire network. Editing a device causes the network to be recalculated automatically and devices that don’t meet the design specification used in the project are identified for further correction.

Recalculation

There are two ways to verify the network design. The first one calculates signal level and distortion automatically while you are laying out the coaxial network. The second allows you to recalculate the signal level and distortion from any coaxial device on the network until an amplifier or terminator is reached. You can verify levels on an amplifier’s leg, between two actives or verify all devices fed by within a node service area. Devices that don’t respect design specification used for the current project will be identified on the map with a particular color for later correction.

A complete set of tools is available to place different kinds of annotation driven by information from the database. You can place data blocks (amplifier, power supply, end of line) that were previously customized in the setup. You can also add distance information to the map just by selecting devices or cables on the map. This includes distance from last active, distance between devices, or cable type and cable length.

Powering

After the design has been completed, Bentley Coax allows designers to power the plant. Powering is based on user defined boundaries or power blocks that define the area to be powered. Designers have the option of changing the power count percentage when using power-passing taps.

When powering equipment is added to the design, Bentley Coax will trace the network, calculating the current draw and voltage requirements. Detailed powering information is reported graphically with circles being displayed on equipment to depict the success or failure of the powering operation. Optimization can be achieved through repositioning the power equipment as required. Bentley Coax supports centralized powering, cross-node powering, insertion of power into amps and nodes, as well as other commonly utilized powering scenarios.

Locates

You can easily render Coaxial features from the Oracle Spatial persistent DB by feature ID and locates of rendered features can be accomplished and reported on with the Bentley Map Data Browser.

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Reviews

Bentley Coax allows you to review any type of coaxial device on the map just by clicking on it. For example, selecting an amplifier on the map will open a review dialog box displaying input and outputs signal levels at different frequency, distortion numbers, plug-ins, powering information, and more. Selecting a tap will open a review dialog box displaying input and output signal levels at different frequency, addresses connected to the tap, and other important information.

Engineering Reports

Bills of material reports can be generated by build state for all RF equipment and cable and can include an address list for a selected area. A batch BOM report can generate files of every node in a project. The reports consist of the cable bearing strand information for the linked strand type footages, the equipment and equipment costs.

Node Segmentation

Bentley Coax has the ability to segment coaxial nodes and associate the segmented node’s receivers and transmitters with their incoming/outgoing fibers and wavelengths for multiplexing propose. All coaxial features designed from a segmented node are updated in the Oracle database with that specific node ID for reporting and rendering purposes.