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Fibre plant & routing

If you run fibre — on its own or alongside radio — WIFI.OS models your outside plant as a real network: the physical points and the cables between them. That gives you live capacity, instant fault impact, and the shortest cable route between any two places.

Points and spans

Your plant is made of two things:

  • Points — the physical nodes: your OLT/POP, splitters, cabinets, ODPs (the boxes customers drop off), plus poles, closures and handholes.
  • Spans — the cables that run between two points, with a cable type and a run length in metres.

Lay them from the Fibre Plant screen, or drop them straight onto the map. A hybrid ISP uses fibre points for its fibre customers and access points for its radio customers — both live on the same map.

Port capacity, counted live

Points that carry customer drops — ODPs, splitters and cabinets — show used and free capacity. This is never a number you maintain by hand: used is counted from reality (customers dropped on an ODP, downstream cables on a splitter), so it can’t drift. An ODP with 16 ports and 11 customers simply shows 5 free.

Blast radius — who a fault takes offline

Click any point and choose affected to see the blast radius: every customer that a fault there would take offline — that point plus everything downstream of it. When a splitter fails, you see the exact list of customers affected, not a guess. This is the payoff of attaching each fibre customer to their ODP.

Shortest cable route

Turn on Route on the map to trace the shortest cable path through your own plant between any two points — the cable route, not the road. It answers questions a driving app can’t:

  • The cheapest fibre run to reach a new customer from your nearest splitter.
  • The exact route, total metres and number of splices to a specific customer.
  • Which point feeds an ODP, and how far.

How to use it:

  1. On the map, click Route.
  2. Pick a start — “Start from my location” (your GPS snaps onto the nearest plant point), or click a fibre point or a client.
  3. Click the destination — a fibre point or a customer.

The shortest path lights up, with total distance, number of spans, and splice count. If two points have no cable between them, it tells you plainly — “No cable path connects those two points.” Fill in each span’s length for exact distances; where a length is blank, the route falls back to the straight-line distance so it always has a sensible figure.

Routing works for any role that can see the map — including a technician standing in the field — so the person doing the work can trace the run from where they are.

Deletes are safe

Removing a point or span is a soft delete: plant that took a crew a day to record is never one click from gone. It’s hidden but recoverable, and you can restore it.