FiberPlanIT provides software and services for FTTx network planning and design. It helps customers automate and optimize their FTTx network design to save costs in planning, design, and construction. Key benefits experienced by customers include 20-30% less trenching and cabling, 4 times faster network design, and strengthened business cases for FTTx projects with lower projected costs and risks. FiberPlanIT touts experience designing over 120 projects in 40 countries totaling 65 million homes.

1. FiberPlanIT
FTTx Network Design Tool
Turning planning into profit

2. Comsof
 Ghent, Belgium
 Toronto, Canada
FTTx network planning and design
 Software and services
More than…
 15 years experience
 120 projects
 40 countries
 65 Million homes planned
Who we are
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3. FTTx project challenges
Network Planning automation & optimization
FiberPlanIT
Experienced benefits
I’ll talk about…
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4. Challenges
High costs
High risk
High pressure
Answer
Automation & optimization
FTTx project
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5. Save costs in planning, design and construction
with FiberPlanIT’s Automation & Optimization
Turning planning into profit
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4x faster 20-30% less trenching
and cabling
Numbers from Visionstream NZ

6. Automation (time saving)
 Apply design rules of customer
 Create network elements: cables, ducts,
trenches, splitters, closures, manholes,…
Optimization (construction cost
saving)
 Advanced routing and clustering
FiberPlanIT = Automation & Optimization
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7. Cost-optimized (CAPEX)
Field Proof – Constructible
 Importance input data quality
 Field survey part of the process
 Adjust design based on local
information and restrictions
Future proof (OPEX)
 Uniform designs
 Take into account future needs
Optimized network design
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8. Planning and Design process
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Strategic
Planning
GO
Initial
Design
Field
Survey
Finetune
Design
Detailed
Design
Network
Build
Network
Inventory
TO BUILD
AS BUILT
FiberPlanIT
Simulator
FiberPlanIT
Designer
Integration with
Inventory solutions
Integration with
Mobile solutions

9. GIS
Rules
Automatic
Pre-processing
Inventory
Management Tool
GIS input
Aerial pre-processing Underground pre-processing
Costs and architecture
export
Design
Iterative
Fine-tuning
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10. Experienced benefits FiberPlanIT value
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11. Strengthen the business case
Increase confidence in the project
Lower the project costs
Shorten project duration
Strategic Planning – ISPs and consultancy
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12. Control critical FTTx high level design
Ramp up network design activities
Lower deployment costs
Cheaper and easier maintenance of network
Network Design – ISPs & engineering
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13. Savings depending on maturity
Current situation
 Experience of planners
 Process
Data quality
Based on customer experience
Construction savings: 10% cheaper
Design efficiency: 3-20 times as fast
FiberPlanIT in numbers
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Customer POC: Design 2500 homes
Original design was 8% more expensive
than FPI design
= a saving of 200k EUR on a project for
2500 homes
Customer POC: Design 2000 homes
Manual design took the engineer 2 months.
FPI design was ready within 2 days.

14. Engineering work for Chorus
FiberPlanIT experienced value:
20-30% less cabling and trenching
Twice the design throughput in half the time
Real-time scenario testing for optimum rollout
Customer Case: Visionstream New Zealand
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4x faster
20-30% less trenching
and cabling

15. Thank you! www.fiberplanit.com
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