Announcing a new version of Globema’s Smallworld telco products

• Data Center Manager (DCM)
• Physical Route Manager (PRM)
• Optical Network Atlas (ONA)
• CATV Design
• Radio Network Inventory (RNI)

New features

• This DCM release brings a new type of Internal Route, Shaft. It can be used to model vertical connections (“shafts”) between floors in buildings or hubs.
• Access Points can now have internal locations in two different buildings, representing entry points of a shaft connecting sides of a semi-detached house.

Improvements

• One of the enhancements of DCM is related to shelf modeling and allows users to model ports/cards located at the back panel of the shelf (so-called back worlds), also for non-straight-through shelves.
• It is now possible to change the specification of a bay.

New features

• We extended PRM with a new type of route, a Faulty route. It allows you to mark a single cable segment or the whole path as faulty. If a user tries to utilize fiber marked as faulty in regular routes, the PRM application will display a warning.
• Another new PRM feature is sending equipment (such as cable or ports) or structures (e.g., underground or aerial routes, buildings, etc.) utilized by a PRM route to Explorer for further processing (creating reports, export).

Improvements

• One of the improvements is related to PRM handling Sheath Terminal and Sheath (LOC) Terminal objects as optical devices.
• Another improvement includes handling fiber cables with bundles in bundles.
• Manual routing supports highlighting the trace/endpoint for a selected fiber.
• The PRM issue report and the free/occupied report now take page parameters (paper size and orientation) from the XLTX templates.

New features

• Splice diagram for Internal Splice can now present equipment (RME) ports when external cables are connected to them directly.
• We added a Page Format Output property – the capability to configure larger page sizes in Layout files for PDF exports that can be easily limited to common Printer page sizes (A4/A3 or Letter/Tabloid).

Improvements

• This ONA release brings significant improvements related to the Planned Works presentation:
  • Information about Planned Works is now also presented on ODF diagrams,
  • Target Port or Device is now presenting TO-BE state (after Planned Work is implemented), AS-IS state is presented as well, similarly to previous releases,
  • For PRM-based Planned Works, all objects supported by PRM should now be properly presented, including PRM Virtual Section and Sheath Terminals,
  • With additional configuration, Report Pack can now generate ONA diagrams for PRM Routes.
• We introduced corrections and fixes to Internal Diagrams – they now will also present the nearest splice or a location at which a given cable is entering or leaving the building.