Search

Design and Management of Outside Plant Copper Networks


Features List
Copper Design and Documentation 
  • Builds an intelligent network model
  • Placement, edit, and review of all cable, devices, and other facilities
  • Network model connectivity maintained during placement and edit
  • Manual or automatic connections
  • Graphical routing process 
  • Choice of layout methods
  • Cross section review
  • Equipment model validation
  • Automatic validation and cleanup tools to ensure network model integrity
  • Easy assignment of pair(s) to subscribers
  • Full network connectivity between outside plant and inside plant documented with Bentley Inside Plant
  • Integration with Bentley Fiber allows for documenting any type of FTTx architecture   
Configurable Equipment Standards 
  • Easy-to-use equipment GUI
  • Define detailed database and graphical properties
    • Spans/cable
    • Cross sections
    • Sheath information
    • Terminals
    • Splice and cabinet enclosures
    • Splices
    • Splitter
    • Central offices/buildings
    • Patch panels/FDP
    • Slack
       
Integrated Strand Mapping
  • Configurable specifications
  • Landbase and structure creation
  • Addresses automatically associated to structures
  • Utilize address information from billing systems
  • Support for multiple output map products
Analysis 
  • End-to-end tracing at sheath, cable and pair level
  • Rippling/throwing of circuits
Operations Functions 
  • Locate outage
  • Locate device by unique ID or name
  • Locate customer
  • Locate slack
  • Locate pair
  • Post as-built tick marks for actual segment length
  • Troubleshoot network problems and identify affected subscribers 
  • Supports integration with OSS systems
 Reports and Splicing Diagrams
  • Equipment report
  • Device information report
  • Device bill of materials - BOM (local) and BOM (Global)
  • Sheath bill of materials - BOM (local) and BOM (Global)


 

Related Solutions
Related Software