Your opinion please - I've created my own mapping and monitoring platform
Hello,
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A few days ago, I asked which GIS software you use to map your fiber deployments, and a lot of you replied. First off, thank you to everyone who commented or reached out through DMs. I genuinely appreciate the help and advice I get from this community.
Most of the suggestions were either software that costs thousands of dollars per year, or tools like Google Earth and QGIS that are honestly difficult for me to work with. They may be easy for some of you, but they just weren’t a good fit for me.
So I started thinking: surely building something basic for my own needs can’t be that difficult. I don’t need a giant enterprise platform. I just need lines and dots on a map, proper tracing, and some sort of alerting system when things fail.
About 30 hours later, I ended up building my own platform.
TLDR:
It integrates directly with my existing systems and already provides pretty much everything I need. It still has some rough edges, but at this point I’d say it’s around 90% feature complete, and honestly, it already does more than I originally planned.
This post is not an AD or a promotion. I’m not selling the software, and I’m not offering it as a SaaS product. I’m simply asking for honest feedback. Take a look and tell me what you think. If you feel something important is missing, I’d really like to hear it.
Right now, the platform supports:
- Poles
- OLTs
- NIDs
- ODFs
- Enclosures
- Cabinets
- Splices
- Splitters
- Patch cables
- Fiber cables (drop, backbone, etc.)
- Conduits
The system can trace a client all the way back to the OLT while displaying every pole, splitter, connector, and fiber strand involved in that customer’s path. It also calculates signal degradation automatically based on distance, splice count, splitters, and connectors.
It reads the ONU list directly from the OLT and assigns ONUs to users on the map. That allows me to detect degraded connections in real time. The system can send alerts by email for signal degradation and service outages automatically.
I also added something I’ve always wanted: a proper NOC display. Real-time traffic, alarms, warnings, and network status dashboards. Basically the kind of thing you see in movies. Yes, I’m a nerd.
At the moment, the system integrates with Ubiquiti OLTs. I’m planning to add VSOL support as soon as I can buy one for testing.
So again. What do you think?