Dark Fiber Design Tool for Network Infrastructure Planning
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity and cost of designing and implementing dark fiber infrastructure for wireless communication networks are significant challenges, particularly in expanding existing networks to accommodate new wireless communication capabilities efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for designing dark fiber networks that includes generating a data record of hardware elements, establishing rules for interactions between these elements, and constructing a circuit plan with optical connections and wavelength paths, facilitated by a processor and memory system, enabling efficient planning and implementation of dark fiber infrastructure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual design processes are used for dark fiber infrastructure, then flexibility in network configuration is maintained, but design time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated rule-based design where the design tool automatically generates hardware configurations, circuit plans, and wavelength paths by applying predefined rules to network requirements, eliminating the need for manual configuration while maintaining design flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by transforming design inputs from high-level network requirements into specific hardware configurations, circuit arrangements, and wavelength assignments through automated rule application, significantly reducing design time while maintaining complexity management
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive dark fiber infrastructure is deployed to support future wireless capabilities, then network adaptability and capacity are improved, but implementation cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by pre-defining rules and templates for hardware configurations, circuit designs, and wavelength assignments that can be automatically applied to future network expansions, enabling comprehensive infrastructure deployment without proportionally increasing implementation complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system achieves universality by creating a single rule-based design platform that handles multiple network scenarios, wireless capabilities, and infrastructure configurations through unified automated processes, reducing implementation complexity while supporting versatile network capacity
3Productivity
If automated rule-based design is implemented, then design time is reduced, but system complexity and rule configuration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the automated design tool validates configurations against predefined rules and network constraints, providing feedback loops that ensure correctness while reducing the complexity of manual configuration by handling validation automatically
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AI summary
A dark fiber design tool for hardware, circuits, and paths is provided. A method can include generating, by a system comprising a processor, a data record that identifies respective equipment of a group of dark fiber equipment that have been assigned for a development of new dark fiber network infrastructure usable via a communication network; generating, by the system, a circuit plan representing optical connections between the respective ones of the group of dark fiber equipment as determined based on a first constraint defined by rules; and associating, by the system, respective optical wavelength paths with respective connections of the optical connections of the circuit plan based on a second constraint defined by the rules.