Re: Software for circuit documentation

[Colton Conor]

You might want to check out
http://www.gokadence.com/products-services/circuits/ I have seen a demo of
their software, and was impressed.

Honestly I would want something with an integrated GIS component. 3-GIS
seems to be the leading GIS for telecom.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Manuel Marín  wrote:

> Dear Nanog community
>
> We are looking for a network inventory software to document logical
> circuits and fibers. We have been using Racktables for cross connects and
> racks documentation and works great, but we did find a way to document
> MPLS, Eline/ELAN, OTN, SONET, IP circuits, external plant (fibers), etc.
>
> I would appreciate if you can share what you use for documentation.
>
> Thank you and have a great day
>
> Regards
>

Re: Software for circuit documentation

[Faisal Imtiaz]

Anyone used these folks ? Any feedback ?

http://www.i-doit.com/


Regards

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232

Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net

- Original Message -
> From: "Mel Beckman" <m...@beckman.org>
> To: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 1:41:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Software for circuit documentation

> I’ve been meaning to get pricing for Ericsson’s Adaptive Inventory (formerly
> Granite) for a mid-sized ISP client. It’s world-class, but it may turn out to
> be insanely expensive. I’m also investigating cloud solutions. Most of the
> legacy commercial products are stuck in the LEC/CLEC inventory regime of T1s,
> T3s, and circuit grooming, with little support for MPLS, IPv6, or SLA
> management. Those are the big pain points today for most ISPs grappling with
> provisioning complexity.
> 
> -mel
> 
> 
>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> mediawiki set up for individual user accounts, https only access, in
>> internal tool IP space/ACL/firewalled.
>> 
>> First develop a hierarcically organized 'blank' template you can copy and
>> paste for each POP, and then fill it out. Works great for large scale fiber
>> patch panel assignments/crossconnect tracking, listings of equipment in a
>> POP, MPLS XCs, etc. It only works properly if the persons making each OSI
>> layer 1 change edit the wiki after each change (or the NOC/neteng staff
>> directing the field technicians edit it at the same time as updating a work
>> ticket).
>> 
>> One of the great advantages is that it's near infinitely flexible in how
>> you can lay out and arrange the page, and tracks each and every change made
>> by ever user. In case of a mistake it's easy to revert to an earlier
>> version.
>> 
>> I am not so sure about its use for OSP fiber tracking which gets into the
>> territory of GIS software and customized vector based diagramming software.
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Manuel Marín <m...@transtelco.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Nanog community
>>> 
>>> We are looking for a network inventory software to document logical
>>> circuits and fibers. We have been using Racktables for cross connects and
>>> racks documentation and works great, but we did find a way to document
>>> MPLS, Eline/ELAN, OTN, SONET, IP circuits, external plant (fibers), etc.
>>> 
>>> I would appreciate if you can share what you use for documentation.
>>> 
>>> Thank you and have a great day
>>> 
>>> Regards

Re: Software for circuit documentation

[Mel Beckman]

I’ve been meaning to get pricing for Ericsson’s Adaptive Inventory (formerly 
Granite) for a mid-sized ISP client. It’s world-class, but it may turn out to 
be insanely expensive. I’m also investigating cloud solutions. Most of the 
legacy commercial products are stuck in the LEC/CLEC inventory regime of T1s, 
T3s, and circuit grooming, with little support for MPLS, IPv6, or SLA 
management. Those are the big pain points today for most ISPs grappling with 
provisioning complexity.

 -mel


> On Apr 18, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Eric Kuhnke  wrote:
> 
> mediawiki set up for individual user accounts, https only access, in
> internal tool IP space/ACL/firewalled.
> 
> First develop a hierarcically organized 'blank' template you can copy and
> paste for each POP, and then fill it out. Works great for large scale fiber
> patch panel assignments/crossconnect tracking, listings of equipment in a
> POP, MPLS XCs, etc. It only works properly if the persons making each OSI
> layer 1 change edit the wiki after each change (or the NOC/neteng staff
> directing the field technicians edit it at the same time as updating a work
> ticket).
> 
> One of the great advantages is that it's near infinitely flexible in how
> you can lay out and arrange the page, and tracks each and every change made
> by ever user. In case of a mistake it's easy to revert to an earlier
> version.
> 
> I am not so sure about its use for OSP fiber tracking which gets into the
> territory of GIS software and customized vector based diagramming software.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Manuel Marín  wrote:
> 
>> Dear Nanog community
>> 
>> We are looking for a network inventory software to document logical
>> circuits and fibers. We have been using Racktables for cross connects and
>> racks documentation and works great, but we did find a way to document
>> MPLS, Eline/ELAN, OTN, SONET, IP circuits, external plant (fibers), etc.
>> 
>> I would appreciate if you can share what you use for documentation.
>> 
>> Thank you and have a great day
>> 
>> Regards
>> 

Re: Software for circuit documentation

[Eric Kuhnke]

mediawiki set up for individual user accounts, https only access, in
internal tool IP space/ACL/firewalled.

First develop a hierarcically organized 'blank' template you can copy and
paste for each POP, and then fill it out. Works great for large scale fiber
patch panel assignments/crossconnect tracking, listings of equipment in a
POP, MPLS XCs, etc. It only works properly if the persons making each OSI
layer 1 change edit the wiki after each change (or the NOC/neteng staff
directing the field technicians edit it at the same time as updating a work
ticket).

One of the great advantages is that it's near infinitely flexible in how
you can lay out and arrange the page, and tracks each and every change made
by ever user. In case of a mistake it's easy to revert to an earlier
version.

I am not so sure about its use for OSP fiber tracking which gets into the
territory of GIS software and customized vector based diagramming software.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Manuel Marín  wrote:

> Dear Nanog community
>
> We are looking for a network inventory software to document logical
> circuits and fibers. We have been using Racktables for cross connects and
> racks documentation and works great, but we did find a way to document
> MPLS, Eline/ELAN, OTN, SONET, IP circuits, external plant (fibers), etc.
>
> I would appreciate if you can share what you use for documentation.
>
> Thank you and have a great day
>
> Regards
>

RE: Software for circuit documentation

[Paul Stewart]

It's now called "Ericsson Adaptive Inventory" if I'm not mistaken...

Paul


-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Chris Garrett
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 11:50 AM
To: Manuel Marín <m...@transtelco.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Software for circuit documentation

Granite is expensive, but pretty much the standard for circuit/xconnect/CFA 
documentation in the telecom space.

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Manuel Marín <m...@transtelco.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Nanog community
> 
> We are looking for a network inventory software to document logical 
> circuits and fibers. We have been using Racktables for cross connects 
> and racks documentation and works great, but we did find a way to 
> document MPLS, Eline/ELAN, OTN, SONET, IP circuits, external plant (fibers), 
> etc.
> 
> I would appreciate if you can share what you use for documentation.
> 
> Thank you and have a great day
> 
> Regards

Re: Software for circuit documentation

[Chris Garrett]

Granite is expensive, but pretty much the standard for circuit/xconnect/CFA 
documentation in the telecom space.

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Manuel Marín  wrote:
> 
> Dear Nanog community
> 
> We are looking for a network inventory software to document logical
> circuits and fibers. We have been using Racktables for cross connects and
> racks documentation and works great, but we did find a way to document
> MPLS, Eline/ELAN, OTN, SONET, IP circuits, external plant (fibers), etc.
> 
> I would appreciate if you can share what you use for documentation.
> 
> Thank you and have a great day
> 
> Regards