Features
The design settings are the ones a fiber build actually uses.
Drop length, hub spacing, cable size, duct, slack, and whether you want a splice plan. The output is a network and a bill, not a picture of a network.
Route and drops
- Trace one contiguous fiber route across the uploaded roads, underground and aerial.
- Snap each drop to the nearest point on the fiber, not the nearest vertex.
- Set a maximum site drop and a separate maximum On The Way drop.
- Edit underground and aerial routes: move a vertex, insert one, delete one, or draw a new segment.
- Circle On The Way homes and exclude them from the design.
Hubs and OLTs
- Place hubs along the fiber, spaced from the homes they serve.
- Spend the drop budget before extending a hub tail.
- Place as few OLTs as the optical budget allows, and keep those locations when On The Way homes are added.
- Click an OLT for the 1:32 port plan.
- Homes past the drop limit stay on the map, marked, with the length they would need.
Splice plan
- Off by default. Both the standard design and the On The Way design honor that switch.
- When it is on: feeder cables, hub tails, 1x4 and 1x8 PLCs, and a splice matrix.
- Fiber colors follow the TIA-598 order. Cable identities include the direction the cable enters.
Bill of materials and the ground
- Cable sizes from 12 to 384. Duct fill rules for tails, drops, and feeder.
- Underground construction miles are counted once where two ducts share a trench.
- Handholes are sized by purpose. Slack footage is a template setting.
- Bedrock depth is binned, and railroad crossings are grouped by operator.