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Air-Blown Fibre Technology

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a month ago
LexAdove
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Emerging Contributor
a month ago

Hi,

Is anyone developing a management tool for air-blown fibres? 

My original post is here. I would be very keen to know if anyone is currently developing or may have started developing a management tool. I know these are similar to 

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-utility-network-ideas/utility-network-for-air-blown-fibre-techn...

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DavidSolari
by MVP Regular Contributor
MVP Regular Contributor
a month ago

ArcFM has fibre capabilities now, might be worth getting a rep to run a demo for your company. Have you played around with the standard Utility Network setup? You might be able to model the strand to conduit associations you need without extra software.

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LexAdove
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Emerging Contributor
a month ago

We have been connecting and associating fibre cable to individual microducts manually. Currently, there is no easier way to do this and even QA the connectivity. Tracing of duct connectivity does not even work 😞

I have seen many demos of Fibre Cable management tools but not an actual working management tool for Air Blown Technology. I know it's just a nested structure of conduits (similar to water pipes) at a smaller scale, but still, no one has one working for ESRI products - yet, or that I know of. The microducts are 7/3.5mm in size, and currently, these are non-spatial data, which makes it tricky to cut and manage. I met Schneider last year and have seen what their ArcFM / Fibre Capabilites are, but unfortunately, no development for ABF technology yet.

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DavidSolari
by MVP Regular Contributor
MVP Regular Contributor
4 weeks ago

Thanks for all the extra context, my company hasn't worked with this tech yet. Might be a long shot, but could you model each microduct like a ribbon cable to work around this limitation? Or is the model not good enough for that either?

LexAdove
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Emerging Contributor
4 weeks ago

No worries. And thanks for replying. Yes, we have modelled it similarly to a cable. But since we have not invested in any fibre cable tool (unless the same tool can be developed to handle ABF), it's hard to say. Our current issue is management:

1. Connecting Tubes efficiently

2. Tracing the microduct route

3. Associate a cable is easy if only a single joint in between. In some feeder routes, there may be multiple duct joints in between, and since these are tiny tubes and some colors are the same, they sometimes end up with swapped connections.

4. Capacity Management

5. QA