FTTH DESIGN AND FIBER PLANNING SOFTWARE
ITSimplicity Solutions – FTTH & FTTX Network Design Software
ITSimplicity Solutions provides advanced FTTH/FTTX software for automatic network design and project planning. Our platform simplifies the engineering, planning, and building of fiber optic networks, enabling operators, ISPs, and engineering firms to accelerate roll-outs.
With our software, you can automatically generate accurate, high-quality, GEO-referenced FTTH/FTTX designs, both high-level and low-level (detailed). The built-in optimization algorithms drastically reduce fiber network material and installation costs while improving design speed and efficiency.
Our cloud-based solution offers real-time reporting, BOQ/BOM generation, and project planning tools that make project management easier and more effective.
Why Choose ITS-Fiber Engineer™
Design – Built on the Autodesk platform with professional design tools and multi-platform compatibility.
Optimization – Run unlimited iterations and alternative modeling for P2P and PON networks.
Planning – Data is hosted securely on Microsoft Azure Cloud with SSL-encrypted communication.
Support – Access to online support, full documentation, and user instructions.
Create quick, cost-optimized fiber network designs and start planning your rollout with ITS-Fiber Engineer™ – the complete solution for FTTH/FTTX network design and project planning.
ITS-NetDesign™ is our proven FTTH network design and engineering software.
This FTTH design software solution has been developed within the same project department that built Telecom networks around the world, for more than 25 years.
ITS-NetDesign™:
- Simple to customize
- Short implementation time
- Fast design
- Direct material and labor quantities
- Based on real coordinates, satellite images and any locally available data
Flexible network design
As a network designer / engineer you have all possible ways to create your best network design by using the:
- Manual
- Semi-automatic
- Automatic network design functions
The designer / engineer stays in total control to modify the design at any time.
This customizable FTTH network engineering software is made for very large network designs and many concurrent designers but can also be used for smaller designs (industrial, business area etc.).
The software output will include:
- Reliable, accurate FTTH/FTTX network, fiber designs (dwg/dxf & Google Earth)
- Schematic network designs & plans (duct & cable)
- Detailed reporting of costs and quantities (BOQ & BOM, Material & labor reporting per project\area\activity)
- Jointing, fiber splicing, and schematics.
- Project planning reports (including: task & sub-task planning, purchase, task release and progress reports)
FTTH design and cadastral data
This Autocad (Map3D)-add-on works with the ease, speed and functionality of regular Autocad (Map3D) and produces all fundamental & installer-ready detailed FTTH network designs.
The software offers fully automated FTTH P2P and GPON calculations within the Autocad (Map3D) environment.
It has simple to use functions to:
- Manipulate and modify a network design
- Access the network materials and labor data
It is now very easy to create detailed FTTH network designs with dynamic text and automatic labeling, automatic cable design and line-trace functions.
All network design quantities and cost details are direct available.
Regarding scenarios and creating a detailed network, FTTH design.
By automating, sequencing, and simplifying components and processes, our design and planning software helps analyse and visualize scenarios easily and quickly, providing the information needed to support financial business case scenario planning. Using site survey findings, initial estimations of BoQ, BoL and BoM can be enhanced as part of a highly detailed design. Relying on our design & engineering solutions is the quick and easy way to build a solid business case for the topology and deployment options for your network and to be certain of investing in a robust, future-proof, cost efficient, high performance network. From concept to detailed design, development, building, and maintenance of networks for crowded cities or rural regions, with our integrated FTTH / FTTX software solutions, you have everything covered. Our network design software maps, configures, optimizes, and calculates the costs of network concepts in seconds. Changes and variations are easy to implement while designing and even after installation.
FTTH/FTTX, Fiber planning software summary
- From idea to network concept, high-level to low-level, fiber design to turn-key project, planning & building
- Automatic cost optimized FTTH/FTTX network design with CAD & GIS mapping
- Flexible software, completely customizable per project
- Interfaces with ESRI, SmallWorld & Openstreetmap
- Mobile walk-in & walk-out FTTH, fiber design, editing with tablet, phone or laptop
- Direct view of the network, fiber planning, in GoogleEarth
- Extensive fiber planning software for FTTH/FTTX network projects
- On-line material & contract management (SaaS)
- On-line reporting & project management (SaaS)
Using our software together with walk-out survey tools.
By using modern tools we can capture important route and premises information with some level of accuracy.
Existing aerial and duct routes, existing equipment locations and building data can be registered with survey tools.
The survey data can be processed and edited in the office.
Possible new aerial and/or duct routes are added to the survey results.
By using the survey data together with any proposed/optional routes, the FTTH network design will be automatically made by the ITSimplicity Solutions software.
Our automatic design will show:
- All existing and new network items, routes and customer connections.
- The BOQ costs report, the financial proposal automatically generated per area.
- Detailed information with proposed manhole/handhole/pole coordinates.
- Detailed information with terrain details and quantities.
- Per area, the design will give a good view of the proposed network and the related costs.
Before starting the walk-out survey.
The scope of the survey work is defined.
What is the area? (A printout/Tablet view of the area boundary line on a map)
If there are already proposed routes and other relevant info they can be made visible in the printout or via a Tablet.
We can use a checklist.
For example (for certain, this is not a complete list):
Survey materials:
- GPS device, with direct import of items & coordinates into GoogleEarth and the ITSimplicity Solutions software
- Tablet with survey forms and Autocad Mobile to sketch proposed routes and positions with direct import into the ITSimplicity Solutions software.
- (Digital Camera)
- (Jotting/sketch material and pencil)
- (Distance measuring wheel)
Survey questions:
Routes:
- Are there existing aerial routes, poles, facade?
- Are there existing duct routes, manholes/handholes, equipment?
- What is the ID of the pole, manhole/handhole, equipment?
- What is the quality of the existing infrastructure, condition of poles, free ducts/sub-ducts?
- Can you propose a route (aerial/duct/facade/else)?
- If digging is involved: what is the terrain, surface type?
- For any proposed routes, where are which obstacles? (Highway, bridge, river, railway, construction site, difficult terrain etc)
- Photographs can be added to clarify routes, existing infrastructure and to prove that the survey is actually carried out.
- What are the GPS coordinates?
Premises/endpoints:
- What is the type of premises/FTU (household/shop, industrial, bank/office, 4G/5G cell site)?
- How many FTU (Fiber termination unit) or households per building are there?
- What is/are the ID per FTU (housenumber(s), buildingname)?
- Is the building to be connected via aerial/duct/facade/else?
- Is there a visible entrypoint of the building (coordinate/sketch)?
- If there is an existing drop, what are the coordinates of this drop (sketch) or to which pole is the building connected?
- Are there special requirements, additional lengths (how much)?
- What are the GPS coordinates?
Optical fiber OSP network engineering services
USE OUR (TURN-KEY) OSP PROJECT EXPERIENCE!
Our FTTH/FTTX network design & planning services are the products of more than 25 years of experience in designing, engineering, planning, installing and commissioning communication networks by NKF (Nokia / Philips) and Draka (Prysmian Group) and their project offices with local staff. We created easy to use fiber network design & planning software tools featuring complex optimization algorithms and completed FTTH projects all over the globe.
With years of practical design, engineering and planning experience in turn-key projects of all sizes, our knowhow of best-in-class materials and installation techniques allows us to develop proven FTTH software solutions for the design and planning of OSP FTTH/FTTX networks and offer fast and flexible engineering services. Automation and optimization of the network design process enables our customers to get future-proof Telecom networks up and running in no time, even when there are sudden changes in plans or customer requirements.
We provide FTTH engineering services for projects all over the world, offering high quality support, for attractive prices. We also support the design & engineering of FTTX, business parks, industrial complexes and more. Feel free to explore some of our reference case studies where we describe the process of designing several types of OSP FTTX networks: urban/rural, cadastral/google earth input data, and ring networks; or read our posts for more information on developments in FTTH/FTTX design and FTTH planning software.
BUSINESS CASE SUPPORT SERVICE
We offer a business case support service in which we help you select the most appropriate technology/network topology for your specific situation to create a solid business case. We have the software to design, engineer and build the FTTH network, right down to creating an accurate Bill of Materials (BoM).
Relying on ITSimplicity Solutions engineering services is a quick and easy way to build a solid business case for the topology and deployment options for your network and to be certain of investing in a robust, future-proof and cost efficient high-performance network.
High level and low level (Installer ready) FTTH/FTTX network design
By using our FTTH software solutions and experience in OSP FTTH/FTTX, both high and low level CAD designs (Autocad Map 3D) with initial estimations of BoQ, BoL and BoM can be made for attractive prices (contact us).
Using site survey findings, the initial estimations of BoQ, BoL and BoM can be enhanced as part of a detailed / low level design (issues such as the accessibility of existing ducts and poles will then be taken into account). The resulting designs in Autocad (Map3D) are installer ready. We provide the detailed network designs: duct-plans, drawings, cable-drawings and fiber schematics.
FTTH SOFTWARE: OPTIMIZED SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
By automating, sequencing and simplifying components and processes, our design and FTTH planning software helps analyze and visualize scenarios easily and quickly for engineering both high level and detailed FTTH network designs.
This software is based on years of experience in turn-key Telecom projects and was originally created for in-house use in major Telecom companies. Our turn-key FTTH software tools are commercially available and have seen many successful FTTH/FTTX network launches. All software tools are dedicated and optimized for their purpose.
A SUMMARY OF OUR FTTH ENGINEERING SERVICES & OUTPUT:
- Business case support with detailed costs & quantities
- Network calculations & concept development
- Designing of high-level networks with optimized network concept
- Survey / walk-in & walk-out consultancy
- Detailed, installer ready, cost optimized, low-level network-design creation. Including duct plans and drawings, cable schematics
- Full engineering output: from data to map to optimized high level design to detailed low level network design. Including BoQ, BoL & BoM quantities reporting, detailed per: area, activity and network level, including fibre schematics.
- Special FTTx project engineering
- FTTH network solutions & engineering services for rural areas and local initiatives
- Turn-key software solutions to: design, engineer, plan, build, document and commission FTTH and FTTX networks.
Consultancy:
With ITSimplicity Solutions (ITS) Engineering Services we offer a technology-independent FTTH/FTTX consulting engineering operation. We are available to work with communities, local authorities, and other organisations planning or constructing passive fibre network infrastructures and can assist with initial infrastructure assessments, including calculations on labour and material costs that help to build a convincing business case.
FTTH Project Engineering:
ITS’s methodology uses digital area (GIS) maps and digital maps of existing infrastructures as input to its dedicated software technology that has been used to build networks for millions of connections. Following a local site survey, ITS will optimize the FTTH/FTTX network design to reduce construction time, improve efficiency, and deliver the best return on investment.
With our knowledge and expertise, we present more options for the diversity of FTTH communities engaging in their own construction. We are both vendor and technology neutral, using our expertise to design an FTTH/FTTX network that fits customer needs.
Our Project Vision and Methodology:
In our vision, each FTTH/FTTX network project is unique. Its characteristics depend on such factors as geography, the history of the market, national and local regulation, and more. Many of the variables involved are interconnected; improve one variable and you may compromise another. We can help navigate these waters through our in-depth understanding of the key considerations, best practices in making smart technology choices, and mixing standard cabling products and proven experience with real-world fibre installations.
ITSimplicity Solutions can advise about the best passive FTTH/FTTX OSP network solutions for a certain area, village, town. We look at the big picture, the whole project, the total costs of installation, civil works and optical fiber network materials.
Pilot project:
A FTTH project is in the basis like every other project dependent on a solid foundation on which the final product can be based. For good optimization and timely commissioning, we believe in running the extra mile during the starting phase of the project, to save time and costs during later stages.
We will always suggest a small pilot project (approximately 500-1000 FTU) to our customers, to test the network concept, technology and design. Furthermore, with smart phones, tablets and applications like Autocad Mobile and our own ITS-NetProgress, site surveys are easy to perform and many errors in the network design can be corrected before construction.
During each phase of network construction, the appropriate BOM and BOQs can be generated using our FTTH software tools.
For several examples of our work, please visit the Projects pages. Contact us via info@itsimplicity for more information about our FTTH network engineering services.
