Rala Infratech AB is introducing buildfibre.com, which it describes as a user-friendly online guide to planning and delivering a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project.
Ftth Design Guide
Rala Infratech AB is introducing buildfibre.com, which it describes as a user-friendly online guide to planning and delivering a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project.
Buildfibre.com will be demonstrated at the FTTH Conference in London taking place February 19-21. It has been developed exclusively by Rala, a Swedish supplier of passive equipment and project management, which has an increasing European presence. Sweden is one of the most advanced countries in Europe for FTTH. Data collected by the FTTH Council Europe show that Sweden is expected to have 20% of households subscribing to fiber connections by 2014, achieving fiber maturity.
'We want to make it as easy as possible to get started with an FTTH project,' said Tobias Ahl, CEO of Rala. 'With buildfibre.com you add properties, interested property owners, and access points in your community as you go – simply by pointing on a map. The service helps any project manager to keep track of the project as it grows.'
Rala estimates that in the UK alone between 30 and 40 community projects are at an early stage of development where detailed and accurate plans would pay off, both in securing funds and saving money over the duration of the network installation.
'We wanted to make designing an FTTH network as simple as using a kitchen planner – you sit down at home, design your dream kitchen or in this case FTTH network, and get a detailed break down at the end of the process. Our experienced network project planners are also on hand to offer the right advice and suggestions,' added Ahl.
The buildfibre.com service runs on both Windows and Mac platforms as well as tablet formats. Rala is offering personal demonstrations at stand S33 during the FTTH Conference 2013 in London.
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Planning of FTTx network in QGIS
Geospatial Network Inventory FREE (GNI FREE) is a free version of telecom network inventory system GNI. The solution was prepared for the telecom operators and companies that plan, design and build FTTH networks. The application architecture is based on the QGIS geospatial platform. By combining a wide range of QGIS vector libraries and FTTH/GPON engineering rules we were able to create a product automating the work in designing a concept of the planned fibre optic network.
Standard mechanisms provided by the GRASS library, publicly available data and background maps from OpenStreetMap have been utilised in the solution. The system works on the local SpatiaLite database which is an element of the shared GNI FREE distribution.
Ftth Design Guidelines
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Product features
QGIS distribution
Geospatial Network Inventory product is based on a standard QGIS system distribution available on the http://www.qgis.org. Our product enriches the selected version of QGIS with:
QGIS Plugins
Ftth Planning And Design Software
Standard installation of QGIS is extended with the set of plugins selected from the publicly available repository and with the set of a free software libraries. Distribution of the Geospatial Network Inventory product is additionally supplemented by our own plugins that provide functionalities used by the FTTH Planner module.
The plugins that require additional data layers to work complement the QGIS configuration with necessary relations, forms and definition of map symbols.
FTTH/GPON Planner
A set of algorithms and scripts that allow for FTTH network planning in GPON technology. The designed process guides the user from determining demand locations and placement of OLT, through the construction of a planned network topology with locations of splice closures and cables, to the proposals for matching appropriate cable profiles and resource report generation. The module contains:
Document generation
The final product of the FTTH Planner operation is generating of a list depicting a fibre optic network proposed by the network algorithms. Using the standard functionality of QGIS and a set of selected plugins, GNI FREE allows generating the following documents:
Standard installation of QGIS is extended with the set of plugins selected from the publicly available repository and with the set of a free software libraries. Distribution of the Geospatial Network Inventory product is additionally supplemented by our own plugins that provide functionalities used by the FTTH Planner module.
The plugins that require additional data layers to work complement the QGIS configuration with necessary relations, forms and definition of map symbols.
FTTH/GPON Planner
A set of algorithms and scripts that allow for FTTH network planning in GPON technology. The designed process guides the user from determining demand locations and placement of OLT, through the construction of a planned network topology with locations of splice closures and cables, to the proposals for matching appropriate cable profiles and resource report generation. The module contains:
Document generation
The final product of the FTTH Planner operation is generating of a list depicting a fibre optic network proposed by the network algorithms. Using the standard functionality of QGIS and a set of selected plugins, GNI FREE allows generating the following documents: