Those that have implemented Fiber Manager understand that the product focuses on managing the physical infrastructure of your telecom network including fiber optic, microwave, copper, and various other communication mediums. However, many customers have long been interested in managing the logical network in addition to the physical infrastructure. And this means managing bandwidth allocation to the various users, systems, services, or customers whose traffic traverses your physical facilities. Join us for this session as we explore how Tri-State G&T is working to customize Fiber Manager to include the provisioning of their logical circuits from an OC-192 all the way down to a DS0 with everything in between. The future of Fiber Manager may be closer than you think!
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Provisioning Bandwidth & Logical Circuits Using Telecom-Based GIS.
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2. Agenda
Introductions
Business Drivers
The Current System & Telecom Assets
Fiber Manager & The Physical Network
Custom Requirements
The Data Model
Business Justification & Benefits
3. Introductions
John Tyll | Tri-State G&T
GIS Manager
Lead a team of 7 GIS Professionals
Tri-State - 14 years
Skye Perry | SSP Innovations
Principal Consultant
Esri & Schneider Electric Technical Architect
Led the current system assessment and technical design @ Tri-State
4.
5. GIS & Telecom Staff
8 GIS Staff
Centralized GIS located at HQ
Diverse tasks – Electric Transmission, Generation, Telecom and Mining
5 Telecom Engineers
Sit at Tri-State HQ building
Responsible for engineering and design of telecom network
Primarily microwave and equipment
1 Telecom Projects Coordinator
Manages installation of fiber optic cables
Manages 3rd party users of Tri-State’s telecom network
Manages Tri-State’s use of 3rd party networks (excluding leased capacity)
1 Leased Circuits Coordinator
Manages leased capacity on carrier networks
50+ Telecom Maintenance Techs
Distributed across the 4 state region
Manage installation and maintenance of all telecom assets and equipment
6. High Volume of Telecom Assets
Grand Junction to Albuquerque:
440 miles, 11 segments, 144 fibers per segment, 2 ports per segment =
approx 4800 fiber records.
One OC-48 Grand Junction to Albuquerque
11 segments, 48 STS’s per segment, 28 T1’s per STS, and 24 DS0’s per T1
= approx 355,000 circuit records.
Adding 100 to 200 miles of fiber
per year
Adding 150+ circuit requests
per year
7. Current System ~ CSMGMT
Originally Access 95 Database with VBA Forms/Reports
Converted to Oracle 9i Forms in 2004 (10g released in 2003)
Tracked logical infrastructure of circuits including SONET
timeslots/channel designation
Excel spreadsheet for fiber records
8. Business Drivers
Current System Issues:
Deprecated Oracle version (9iAS)
Slow and not user friendly
No GIS component
Not scalable
Missing needed features (trace circuits,
manage fiber routes, link to
documentation, track financial
information, etc.)
9. Proposed Solution
Create a GIS database and web-based interface to:
Identify, review, analyze, and update key attributes of the
telecom network
Include collocation buildings, equipment
locations, fiber optic routes, microwave
radio systems, MAS radio systems,
USAT, and UHF radio systems
Provide ability to track logical
provisioning with similar capabilities
as current home grown system to the
DS0 level
Geospatial database with robust mapping
capabilities
10. Requirements ~ Larger Than Fiber
Initially a new GIS telecom COTS software to satisfy fiber
management needs
Leadership Approved New Circuit Management Solution
Add customized software interface to COTS fiber software
Migrate Telecom database
and fiber data to customized
GIS telecom software
Tie telecom circuits
to GIS software
Focus on expanding fiber routes
11. Final Solution
Reviewed numerous software providers
Interview & demo 4 leading COTS software vendors
Selected ESRI/Schneider and Fiber Manager
With a custom implementation for bandwidth mgmt by SSP
15. Fiber Manager – It’s Physical
Connection Manager allows you to connect fiber, microwave, etc. to
a physical port on a device on each end
No internal connectivity between device ports within a device
Circuit Manager allows you to create a named physical path from
device to device
Does a good job in tracking physical assets and connectivity
16. Track master/header circuits that traverse through devices
Custom Trace Linking Multiple Fiber Manager Physical Circuits
Defines connectivity between internal device ports
Establish bandwidth between end points
Systems / Master Circuits
21. Creating Master Circuits
Select the starting port
which initiates an
outbound trace on the
connected line.
At the site on the other end of the trace, review
the inbound port and select an outbound port if
available/required.
24. Bandwidth Hierarchy
Define a bandwidth hierarchy for each master circuit up
to an OC-192 (10 Gb/s)
Allocate logical trunk circuits
(reserved bandwidth, ex. a full STS-1 or DS1)
Provision logical tributary circuits
(committed bandwidth) down to a DS0
Custom Two Point Trace Through Master Circuits
25. Bandwidth Hierarchy
Allocate circuits within the master circuit hierarchy
24 DS0s = 1 DS1
Tributary Circuit
Ex Hierarchy:
Consuming the 1st Vir. Tributary
Within the 13th OC-1 (trunk)
Within an OC-3 (trunk)
Within an OC-12 (trunk)
Within an OC-24 (trunk)
Within an OC-48 (master)
OC048-024-12-03 :: Defines the Timeslot of the circuit
26. 28
B
A C
System A: OC-48
System B: E-3
System C: OC-12
Physical Circuits
1
2
27. 29
B
A C
System A: OC-48
System B: E-3
System C: OC-12
Trunk Circuit: DS-1
1
2
28. 30
B
A C
System A: OC-48
DS0
System B: E-3
DS0
System C: OC-12
DS0
Tributary Circuit
1
2
29. Provisioning a Logical Circuit
Provisioning is initiated from
the Tri-State toolbar.
Define the properties of the
logical circuit.
Choose the start and end sites.
30. Provisioning a Logical Circuit
Any eligible paths are shown. Selecting a path
shows the systems that are crossed.
31. Provisioning a Logical Circuit
For any systems included in
the path, the user must
provision the timeslot of each
logical circuit.
Here the user chooses:
The 8th DS0
in the 3rd VT
in the 1st STS
of the TSGT-C OC-3
32. Provisioning a Logical Circuit
When some circuits are
provisioned, the color
changes to orange.
When all circuits are
provisioned for the system,
the color changes to green.
Repeat for each system
crossed within the path.
The save button is then
activated.
33. Technical Benefits
What can we do with this level of detailed data?
Recommend circuit provisioning based on available timeslots
Track allocated bandwidth vs. capacity at all points on network
Create a GIS heat map showing bottlenecks
Drive capital planning for network expansion
Poke the network at any point to see:
Hierarchy of the master circuit(s)
Which logical circuits are present
The use of each logical circuit (down to the DS0)
Result is a scalable system
35. Bandwidth vs. Capacity
The map zooms to the extent of the system, which is shown here in green. Note that:
< 50% the system will be displayed in green
50% to 75%, the system will be displayed in yellow
75% to 90%, the system will be displayed in orange
> 90%, the system will be displayed in red
37. Business Justifications
Current system is not supported by Vendors
No significant system upgrades over last 20 years
Key personnel are nearing retirement gone!
Growing number and complexity of assets
$100M in Capital project over next 5 years
Need for spatial analysis of assets
Inefficient circuit design and fiber tracking process
38. Business Benefits
Reduces time required to manage circuit/fiber
design and installation
Replaces existing unsupported system with a
GIS based platform
Consolidates several systems into one platform
(CSMgmt, Telecom Room Database, AutoCAD drawings, Excel
Spreadsheets, etc.)
Standardizes work flow and processes
39. Business Benefits
Eliminate a portion of drawing packages and
paper documentation
Reduce time to troubleshoot and locate outages
Greater data integrity and access for field mtnce
Provide enhanced reporting functions
Track 3rd Party usage of the telecom network
Provides opportunity to roll to Linux
Abstract:
Those that have implemented Fiber Manager understand that the product focuses on managing the physical infrastructure of your telecom network including fiber optic, microwave, copper, and various other communication mediums. However, many customers have long been interested in managing the logical network in addition to the physical infrastructure. And this means managing bandwidth allocation to the various users, systems, services, or customers whose traffic traverses your physical facilities. Join us for this session as we explore how Tri-State G&T is working to customize Fiber Manager to include the provisioning of their logical circuits from an OC-192 all the way down to a DS0 with everything in between. The future of Fiber Manager may be closer than you think!
Jonathan…
I like this slide, definitely focus in on the number of circuits that Tri-State tracks all the way down to the DS0 level. Point out that this is just one example – LOTS o’ data.
Jonathan…
Talk to the current system – hard to understand by anyone but engineers, no GIS component, and LOTS of accumulated data
Jonathan…
Explain the basic goals of the project, I included the third bullet (you can certainly change it) to show the goals of replacing CSMGMT.
Jonathan…
Explain the basic goals of the project, I included the third bullet (you can certainly change it) to show the goals of replacing CSMGMT.
Jonathan…
– I think this would be a compelling topic to talk about. Explain how you originally were just going after a GIS tool to manage the fiber for your job and then talk about how leadership challenged you to find a solution to also replace CSMGMT which was a whole other can ‘o worms.
Jonathan…
– I think this would be a compelling topic to talk about. Explain how you originally were just going after a GIS tool to manage the fiber for your job and then talk about how leadership challenged you to find a solution to also replace CSMGMT which was a whole other can ‘o worms.
Skye…
Managing your fiber in a geospatial system allows you to create maps of your infrastructure, perform spatial analysis, and answer questions that could not otherwise be answered. Esri ArcGIS is the worldwide leader in GIS and specifically within utilities. Describe the mapping platform based on the understanding in the room…
Skye…
Fiber Manager is an extension on top of the Esri ArcGIS platform that allows the map to manage telecom connected assets. Instead of just showing the lines and points on a map, this tool digs into the physical connectivity to allow you to specify connections at the port, splice, fiber, or frequency level across your assets. This is an example of the Connection Manager which is showing a splice between two fibers. The same tool is used to connect all the other types of telecom assets via configuration.
Skye…
Once the telecom connectivity is built into the GIS the product allows you to do network analysis and tracing. Connection management was shown on the previous slide. Once connections are established, end to end fiber connectivity traces can be performed. These dedicated physical paths can be used to created named circuits. And we can then conduct OTDR tracing and other analysis based on that connectivity.
Skye…
I will talk to the physical nature of fiber manager and why it matters in this discussion.
Skye…
Skye…
Talk about the custom data model. The F_Circuit is the product physical circuit. The other objects are custom objects that traverse into the logical provisioning world. This is best captured via an example. Take the case where we have 6 patch locations (or sites) labeled A thru F. In Fiber Manager we establish physical circuits between each of these patch locations – device to device (A to B, B to C, etc.). Next we create master circuits which can also be called systems. System #1 will be from A to C and System #2 will be from C to F. Each system shares the same bandwidth and the same designator/timeslot hierarchy. Now we want to create a logical circuit from B to E which crosses the two systems. (Reference the model.) This logical circuit traverses multiple systems and within each system it is assigned a specific timeslot. That reservation with the system may only use a subset of the physical circuits. In system #1 is only uses B to C and in System #2 it only uses C to D and D to E. It does NOT use A to B or E to F.
To demonstrate the opposite direction we can show a second logical circuit. And now we can easily see that any given physical circuit such as B to C can be part of different timeslots which are being used by differing logical circuits. So in summary, one physcial circuit can host many different logical circuits AND one logical circuit can traverse many different physical circuits.
Skye…
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Skye…
Skye…
Talk about the custom data model. The F_Circuit is the product physical circuit. The other objects are custom objects that traverse into the logical provisioning world. This is best captured via an example. Take the case where we have 6 patch locations (or sites) labeled A thru F. In Fiber Manager we establish physical circuits between each of these patch locations – device to device (A to B, B to C, etc.). Next we create master circuits which can also be called systems. System #1 will be from A to C and System #2 will be from C to F. Each system shares the same bandwidth and the same designator/timeslot hierarchy. Now we want to create a logical circuit from B to E which crosses the two systems. (Reference the model.) This logical circuit traverses multiple systems and within each system it is assigned a specific timeslot. That reservation with the system may only use a subset of the physical circuits. In system #1 is only uses B to C and in System #2 it only uses C to D and D to E. It does NOT use A to B or E to F.
To demonstrate the opposite direction we can show a second logical circuit. And now we can easily see that any given physical circuit such as B to C can be part of different timeslots which are being used by differing logical circuits. So in summary, one physcial circuit can host many different logical circuits AND one logical circuit can traverse many different physical circuits.
Skye…
Explain the analysis requirements for what we can do with all this detailed data…
Skye…
Explain the analysis requirements for what we can do with all this detailed data…
Skye…
Explain the analysis requirements for what we can do with all this detailed data…
Skye…
Explain the analysis requirements for what we can do with all this detailed data…
Skye…
Explain the analysis requirements for what we can do with all this detailed data…