FTTx planning made

smart, fast and easy

From solid High-Level Decision Making to Efficient Detailed Planning

Simulation of different data layers for Hugo Verriestlaan, Kortrijk, Belgium

 FiberPlanIT Simulator

Are you planning an FTTx network and

making important strategic decisions?
FiberPlanIT Simulator assists you in making
these important decisions based upon facts.

Make accurate estimates to support your business case

Increase
FiberPlanIT provides very reliable estimates of costs and revenue for specific areas. reliability and
These include smart GIS-based calculations of cost per home passed, customer
transparency
connection costs and adoption rates for possible projects. For each simulation,
FiberPlanIT generates an accurate Bill of Material and a geographical network
preview, giving you an insight of the cost structure and proposed design, fitted to the
specific situation in your area.

Make the right technological choices Select the

Use FiberPlanIT’s unrivaled flexibility to quickly evaluate different scenarios, selecting best design
between numerous technologies and components. You can therefore quantify the strategy
impact of your design choices on deployment and operational costs, selecting the
most effective design strategy.

Know where to deploy your network

Increase
FiberPlanIT provides you with reliable revenue and cost predictions per neighborhood, return on
derived from geographic (GIS) and marketing data. The results help you easily identify
the neighborhoods with the highest return on investment in the shortest period,
investment
increasing your profits.

Bill of Material / Overview

Simulation Information Cost Breakdown

Area Name Area Homes Passed Cost Homes Activated Cost Total Cost %
Design Rules Simulation Rules Public Trenching 571.631 0 571.631 37%
Number of Homes Activated 841 Home 0 195.740 195.740 13%
Number of Homes Passed 841 Drop 42.000 294.942 336.942 22%
Overall Adoption Rate 100% Distribution 194.649 0 194.649 13%

2
Expected # PON Customers 0 Feeder 109.824 122.600 232.424 15%
Expected # P2P Customers 841 Total Cost 918.104 613.282 1.531.387 100%
Household Density (hh/sqkm) 1

1 FiberPlanIT designs … generates a detailed Results

Total Cost of Project 1.531.387

complete FTTx networks, Bill of Material and cost

Total Cost of Deployment
Total cost of Activation
918.104
613.282 Public Trenching
Home

even for large areas, … overview for each design

Cost per Home Passed
Cost per Home Activated
1.092
729
Drop
Distribution
Feeder

…
Total Expected Revenue (12m) 302.760
PON Monthly Revenue 0
P2P Monthly Revenue 25.230

3 … so you can decide based

on reliable calculations.

LEGEND
• profitable in all scenarios
• profitable in one scenario
• not profitable
 FiberPlanIT DESIGNER

Do you want to generate the best

deployment plans for your project area?
FiberPlanIT DESIGNER automates your design
process while optimizing your deployment plans.

Identify cost-optimized choices

Save on
FiberPlanIT presents you with optimal choices for locations of aggregation points, cable deployment
routes and splices, exploring the complex balance between those network components.
costs
Our best-in-class smart algorithms are the result of years of experience.

Fine-tune your plan

Make different OSP design choices and quantify the impact on costs in an iterative Stay
process. You can integrate last-minute field survey information and easily adapt the
completely
design. As such your engineers stay in complete control, creating the design that gives you
the best trade-off between the cost to build the network, the practicality to build it and the
in control
operating costs.

Efficiently create high-quality plans

FiberPlanIT makes your design process fast, allowing your engineers to design 7000 Save
homes in less than 3 days. Additionally, the seamless integration with third party time while
software for network operation facilitates the creation of network objects in the network increasing
documentation tool.
quality

1 Our smart algorithms

automatically connect homes using
the most cost-efficient route.

3 Cost-efficient POP
locations are easy to
adjust.

4 Auto-generate the Bill of Material.

2 Easily adjust design

details, such as automated
clusters and cabinets.

5 Flexibly
configure your
own FTTx design.
No two FTTx projects are the same, hence your project
requires a dedicated approach. With FiberPlanIT, a unique
and flexible software platform developed by Comsof, we can
support you throughout the whole planning process for your
FTTx network: from the construction of a solid business case
(with the help of the FiberPlanIT Simulator) to the production
of detailed roll-out plans (with the FiberPlanIT Designer).

Rely on our expertise!

Based on more than 15 years of experience in telecom network planning and more than 14
million homes planned with our FiberPlanIT software, we are ready to assist you with all your
FTTH network planning and design challenges.
Depending on your needs, our consultants can work out the design of your network and assist
you with the analysis of all results, or we can provide you with a FiberPlanIT license and:
• Install and configure the software in your environment.
• Train your planners to configure and use the software.
• Make customized changes to the software to fit your specific needs.
• Provide you with support and problem-solving.

ABOUT COMSOF REFERENCES

Comsof delivers innovative, cost-
effective solutions to complex ICT
problems in telecommunications.
The company started in 1998 as
a spin-off of the internationally
renowned Department of Information
Technology (Intec) of the Ghent
University in Belgium. Our team of
telecommunication consultants and
software developers is committed to
providing each of our customers with a
dedicated solution based on innovative
and best-in-class software development.
Our customers include telecom operators,
equipment vendors, engineering companies
as well as national and regional authorities,
including Belgacom, Sky, Ultrafast Fibre, Enable,
Cablecom, Opticable, LCC, CSW broadband,
Eandis and several municipalities across Europe.
PARTNERS
We have a strong network of international and
local partners. FiberPlanIT is available as a plug-
in to PNI tools from Bentley, GE, Synchronoss,
GISmartware and TKI.

CONTACT INFORMATION
www.fiberplanit.com
contact@fiberplanit.com
+32 9 275 31 00

Zuiderpoort Office Park

Gaston Crommenlaan 10, bus 101
BE-9050 Gent, Belgium
www.tKorps.be #14563 14/02