Setup and Configuration
- Easy-to-use GUI for equipment definition
- Pre-configured library included
- Ensures use of engineering standards in design
- Configure frames, equipment, slots, and ports
- Copy frame/rack assemblies for easy replication of equipment
- Validation rules
- Properties
- Card in proper equipment
- Card in proper slot
- Equipment placement in racks
- Air spaces between equipment
- Port mapping through equipment
- Connection rules
- Jumper cable-to-port consistency
- Port-to-port consistency
Design and Layout
- Work organized by project or work order
- Design or import floor plans in MicroStation
- Drill down through progressive levels of floor plan detail
- Simple drag and drop equipment placement
- Edit equipment properties
- Automatic generation of rack elevations (front and back views)
- Use MicroStation to add additional work instructions or details
- Equipment state and port connectivity graphically depicted by color
- Actively establish connections inside building or to outside plant
- Generate connections report
- Maintain connections while copying or moving equipment and frames
Engineering Documentation
- Wire run reports
- Circuit trace reports
- Automatically generated schematics
- Rack elevation views (front and back)
- Connectivity reports by service
- Equipment properties such as noise level, power consumption, and HVAC requirements
Reports
- Equipment specifications
- Bill of materials
- Connection report through entire facility to customers served
- Rack requirements for power and HVAC
Engineering Calculations
- Engineers define parameters
- Specification file may be saved for re-use
- Loss budget analysis
- Optical coupler optimization
- Laser, splitter definition
- Splice, cable, and connector loss definition
- Define parameters by device or globally
- Perform calculations on one or all nodes
- Reports
- Laser loss budget
- Laser connections
- Node levels
- Node connection
- Engineering calculations BOM
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