Inside Plant (ISP)
Solutions for Inside Plant Documentation


 


 

 

Inside Plant Documentation -
(CaTV/MSO, Telco, ISP)

Rainbow Design Services, Inc. provides as core to its Network Infrastructure Engineering and Documentation offering Inside Plant Documentation. We have extensive experience in helping customers from many varied markets with linking their Central Office / Head-end / Data Center / POP to the maps and GIS data for their Outside Plant cabling. The absolute BEST return on investment from a GIS is to have a FULLY modeled network in a common platform from the first port on the first device in your Central Office / Head-end or Data Center all the way through all distribution Fibers and relating cables to the final delivery point/customer.

Rainbow Design Services, Inc. has extensive experience in providing Inside Plant solutions using Bentley Systems ISP software and other platforms including Visio, AutoCAD, SpatialNET and others. Our Engineering and Development teams have developed cutting-edge data capture techniques to ensure accuracy and success with every documentation project. We have experience in head-ends, central offices, data centers, points-of-presence and other sites.

 

Do you need to accurately inventory equipment in your head-end / central office / data center?

Do you need the ability to trace connectivity down to the port-level. Are you planning upgrades, and need help determining space, power, cooling demand?

Are your OSP records and maps in good shape but supporting Inside Plant infrastructure lacks the same level of detail?

Does documenting your Inside Plant seem daunting? Not sure where to start?

Have you documented your Inside Plant in the past but changes and updates are hard to manage?

 

Our services are aimed at documenting and modeling entire equipment libraries, equipment elevation (front and back), rack elevation (front and back), row elevation (front and back), circuit schematics, wire runs, signal tracing, floor plans, site location (GIS accurate), all inbound and outbound connectivity, Bills of Materials, and planning tools/reports to assist with Heating & Cooling, Airflow, Power and Structural concerns.

The solutions we specialize in using provide measurement down to the individual device for height, width, depth, weight, heat dissipation, airflow demand and power consumption. All of these metrics paired with our custom procedures ensure that our customers are enabled with knowing exactly what piece of equipment is in a specific slot, rack, row, physical location; what that device is connected to on every port; and able to build scenarios around funding, powering, cooling, space etc. (Screen Shot below, an example Rack Elevation View using Bentley Inside Plant products)

In conjunction with Inside Plant Documentation Services, we provide options for Hosting your resulting data, or for scheduling complete data deliveries. Should you choose our Hosting option, we will provide your team with access to your Inside Plant data via viewers and/or web-enabled maps, drawings and reports. Our IT team also specializes in customization so if there is a requirement to connect your data to a back-office system or application let us know, we likely have experience and definitely have the knowledge and resources to exceed your expectations.




Software Expertise


We are experts in the use of most Industry Standard CAD, Mapping, Engineering & GIS software products
including but not limited to:
  • Bentley Systems: Focus (FBD, Focus 95/98/One), Bentley Fiber (Comms) V8 & V8i, MicroStation (all versions), Bentley Map, MicroStation Geographics
  • SPATIALinfo:  SPATIALnet, SPATIALweb -- FTTx, Route, Inside Plant, RF (Coax), Administration, Setup & Training 
  • Autodesk: AutoCAD (all versions), AutoCAD Map
  • Lode Data Corporation: Lode Data Fiber Module, Design Assistant, Drafting Assistant
  • GE Energy: Smallworld Product Suite
  • ESRI: ArcGIS, ArcServer/Desktop, TMAP products
  • MapInfo (PitneyBowes Business Insight): MapInfo Professional, MapMarker

Please contact our technical sales team for more information. We are excited to talk about your plans for the future, and in partnering with you for unparalleled success.