Comsof Fiber within Network Manager Telecom. 

Hello and welcome to this short demonstration of the usage of Comsof Fiber within Network Manager Telecom. So what we see starting out is the general interface of Network Manager Telecom and I've already opened an Comsof design. So you can see the outline of it on the map. It's just a couple of streets big, but big enough to show the usage of Comsof Fiber. Important to note on the left hand side, you see some details about this design and especially the fact that there's different workspaces within this design. So workspace is the possibility to have different simulations within this design. For example, if you want to have different architectures to compare different unit costs or are still considering different options for your high level design, you can run these side by side and choose the best one and proceed with that specific version of your design. If I open an actual workspace, I can go into the workspace dialog, which looks like this and shows all of the steps needed to run a Comsof design. So I'll select a couple and then explain what will happen. So this is the initialize, populate and preprocess steps, which is the first step in the data equation. So the data is started from the streets and addresses in Network Manager's database. So we'll show this in a minute, but starting point is always data is in Network Manager. And this is augmented by Comsof Fiber operations. Streets and turbines are doubled to have possible torrenties on both sides of the road. And these are then connected to the homes using lead in trenches. So once these operations are done, let's have a look at the data. So this is the starting point. So a collection of address points in Network Manager and in the street center lines in the center of the streets. And right now Comsof Fiber has added information to this. So let's zoom in a bit. You see that each house has gotten a couple of attributes to make it to the demand point. For example, this one is not locked and has one home that is in this house with the single dwelling units. To go from the single dwelling units to the street, there is leading being created. And then each of the streets has gotten two sides to make sure that a street can be drenched on both sides of the street. That concept is there. Plowsings are there as well. So all of this data has been generated by Comsof Fiber to start a calculation from. This is all being done automatically, of course. Then if you look a bit further to the next couple of steps. So I'll again run three in a row. First of all, there's a validate step that will validate the actual data in my current workspace. Is everything connected? Are all clients reachable? Or are there parts of the client base or street set that cannot be accessed? This will be flagged and the users can then remedy it. After that, there's the acquired license part. And finally, calculation. So calculation, of course, the main bit of the Comsof Fiber functionality, where all of the data that we've seen is taken. The best grouping of demand points to drop points is done from drop points to cabinets. Cables and ducts are created and everything is calculated as in a Comsof Fiber actually running from any other user interface. So when the calculation is done, let's have a look at the results that this created. So this is all in the workspace outlayer. So I'll visualize that. What you will see now is that additional lines and objects are being created. And I'll add the clusters as well. So this shows that in this specific instance, we have three distribution clusters, each with their own cabinet. So the cabinet is the dot in the middle where the centroid is located. This can, of course, be selected on predefined location as well. But right now, it's just the optimal location as decided by Comsof Fiber. From this cabinet, there are cables running to all of the drop points and then from each drop point to the moment point. So all of this geographical data has been calculated. There are cables, ducts, fibers, spices, and so on. All of this is available within the data model. I'll zoom in a bit and show. For example, if you look at this specific piece, here there are distribution cables going all from the cabinets to these five clients on the right hand side. I'm using direct cable strategy here. That means that each client gets an individual cable. So looking at this piece, it has five cables going to the right hand side of this street. Then looking at this bigger cable, that's a feeder cable with 12 fibers going from the central office, the white house icon to hold the cabinets to the left and right hand side. So you can investigate what it looks like and then make some decisions. It's also possible to go and modify items. For example, if I look at this cluster on the right hand side, suppose I would like to have everything on the right hand side of this workspace being under one or being served by one cabinet. I can do something like this. So I could just go ahead and modify this and then say to Comsofiber, I want to log this new cluster that I edited. After saving this and re-running calculation, the right hand side will all be contained within one cluster, search for one cabinet. So you would then have a clear split of the workspace within a left and right hand side cluster and cabinet. So this is the geographical output. All of the title license will also have a bill of material. So that's a standard Excel sheet that contains all the components that have been used to create a network, to model the network. So in this case, we get some statistics. We have about 150 homes in this area for a total budget of about half a million. You see a division of the various layers in where are the high priced components. And then you can also drill down into this specific view where you can see that the highest cost here would be the trenches. So we have a unit cost of 40 euro per meter, a total volume of 5000 and a bit meters of trenching for this budget, which is logically the biggest budget that there is. But for all of the components, the cables on drop distribution feeders, all of the equipment and so on, all of that is contained in this Excel sheet, automatically being generated with each new Comsofiber calculation. So this allows you to compare different choices, equipment vendors, subcontracts and so on, that will be compared easily and the impact they have on design. Of course, all of these costs need to come from somewhere. And that is from the rules on the left hand side. I'll quickly click on this to show this is the way that you would enter the equipment or the civil works costs, for example. That would be here that you say how much a trench costs, how much a crossing costs and so on. I won't go into detail. This is a short and demo and there's quite a lot to this system, but it allows to be configured to quite a high extent. And then I'll show the last step as well. Once you're sure that a design is as you would like it or a work base as you would like it, then you can import it into the design and benefit from all of the NetWord Manager functionality. So once the import is finished, I'll go ahead and hide most of what Comsofiber did intermediately and show the additional structures and the fiber network that was generated. So the fiber network is everything relating to fiber gun and equipment. And then structures is the ducts and equipment and so on that that has been added. So this allows for a nice visualization together with the Comsof clusters. So you can still see what was done beforehand. And then if I zoom in a bit, looking at this specific fiber cable, for example, I can go into the details and look at the housing for this specific drop point and houses. So this house is in the splice that connects two cables, one cable going to the house, the other cable going, of course, to the distribution cabinet upstream. And I can then also do a trace, for example, looking like this. So here you can clearly see on the left hand side the object that are being referred on the map. So the fiber cable, I'll zoom in a bit. This fiber cable is the short one going to the street. Then there's a branch and a splice as we've seen before. Then that cable goes a bit further on from the drop point to the cabinet. So the cabinet will then be on the top left side. Here there will be two splitters in the state. Probably a 2-16 combined to a 32. And then a bigger feeder cable going to the middle of the map there, which is the central office or the starting point for the whole network. So this concludes our demo that showed that I started from a dataset within the network manager, containing streets and demand points, generated additional data by console fiber for the modeling of a console fiber network. Run the calculation, can do a couple of changes, like the distribution cluster I switched around. And then once you're happy with the design, imported everything into network manager master. And then you can do tracing and so on from there. Thanks for watching.