West Chester University
Fiber Network Survey

PCCi assisted West Chester University in the survey and documentation of their campus-wide fiber optic network.  The following tasks were performed:

• Identify and document the fiber cable configuration between all buildings on campus and/or wire closets to include the number of fiber optic cable strands in each segment, type of fiber optic cable and the number of terminated and un-terminated fiber strands per cable segment by fiber cable type.
• Document the fiber optic cable terminations for each cable segment to include the manufacturer’s name of the fiber cable patch panel, capacity of the patch panel at each end of the cable segment to include used and unused positions, type of fiber optic cable connections used for cable termination in each cable segment
• For each terminated but unused fiber optic cable strand, PCCi identified the physical length of each fiber optic cable segment and the signal loss in (db) of each unused but terminated fiber optic cable strand.
• Created VISIO drawings that clearly document the physical layout of fiber optical cable infrastructure between buildings at WCU.
• For each wire closet or fiber cable segment termination point, PCCi provided a VISIO drawing that shows the current fiber patch panel port configuration to include used and unused ports.
• During the campus inspection and information gathering process, inspect the existing un-terminated fiber cable strands to determine if there sufficient service loop (slack) capacity on the un-terminated fiber strands to provide adequate cable length for a technician to install ends on those strands and if strands are too short, is it possible to easily move the fiber cable termination point to a more convenient and workable location at ground level.

Using information documented previously by the customer, created an EXCEL spreadsheet and an Access database that documented the connection point of each in-use fiber strand per segment to include the cable segment end-point  physical locations (wire closet designation), fiber cable patch panel strand number, transmit and receive end of each cable strand, Multi-Mode or Single Mode cable type, termination type on end of each strand (SC, ST, LC, FC, MT-RJ), connected equipment information for each end point, (router, switch, hub, etc.).