FTTH Planning Software: Fiber to the Home – Completely Planned and Documented

Fiber rollout is accelerating across Europe and beyond. For network operators, utilities, and telecoms, powerful FTTH planning software is essential to deliver projects efficiently, cost-effectively, and in compliance with subsidy requirements. cableScout® supports the entire FTTH process – from initial planning through to the completed documentation of the active network.

cableScout® supports all common FTTx topologies: FTTH, FTTB, and FTTC – in both Point-to-Point (P2P) and Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) structures with PON technology. The system maps all network layers completely: from the Point of Presence (PoP) through the duct bundle, the network distribution point (NDP), sub-duct bundles, and micro-ducts, all the way to the home connection and access point (APL).

The particularly powerful automated FTTH planning function in cableScout® allows the complete infrastructure of a service area to be designed street by street. After selecting the buildings to be connected and the central office, the system automatically creates the entire network structure: buildings including residential and commercial units, appropriate equipment, duct and micro-duct routes with color coding, cutting plans for home connections, and fiber blowing to the defined termination points.

Manual adjustments are possible at any time. Once the optimal variant is found, cableScout® generates all project documents at the touch of a button: work orders, splice plans, duct plans, and material lists.

For subsidized broadband projects, cableScout® offers a specialized shapefile export compliant with GIS supplementary in Germany. For Swiss network operators, specially developed exports for provisioning plattforms like FIBX, Dreamfiber, and DEX are also available.

After successful implementation, planning data is transferred to the as-built documentation in a single step. The network can immediately be managed further: connection status tracking, connecting additional customers, capacity reports – all based on the data already available.

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) refers to a fiber connection directly to the customer’s home or building. Professional planning requires specialized FTTH planning software that supports physical and logical network layers, duct and fiber management, and automatic generation of project documents – such as cableScout®.

Yes. cableScout® fully supports both Point-to-Point (P2P) and Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP / PON) structures. The system manages splitters, cascade structures, and all relevant network components down to subscriber connection level (NE4).

Yes. cableScout® offers a shapefile export compliant with GIS supplementary conditions 3.x/4.x of Atene KOM – the standard format for subsidized broadband projects in Germany. Standardized interfaces to common master planning tools are also available.

cableScout® enables precise connection status tracking for each subscriber: from ‘duct laid’ and ‘cable blown’ through ‘APL installed’ to ‘connection active’. Duct manager and fiber manager support the easy connection of additional customers.