What’s New! - October 2022
Network Map
Editing in ISP View
Using the drag tool on the far left of ISP View, you can now easily place your ISP items in the correct locations in your building. For example, if a user added a Termination Panel to a building without associating it with the correct Floor / Room / Rack, you use the drag tool to pull the Termination Panel and drop it in the correct relationship. The application will automatically update all of the related fields. If you haven't been using floors, rooms, and racks to manage your buildings, start today!
Splice History Improvements
Tracking the history of your splicing is vital when managing your fiber network. Using OSPInsights Splice History, you can view every splicing change made in a Splice Point. With Web 9.19, histories are now created if a user deletes a cable or moves it out of a Splice Point. This gives you even more information when verifying splicing and investigating your Saved Routes.
Pole Attachments
OSPInsight Web 9.19 brings the ability to relate Spans to Poles. This is done through the new Pole Attachment Editor.
The Pole Attachment Editor can be pulled up through a spans right click menu, or a poles right click menu. Using the span method, you are able to automatically relate all the poles along a span to the span itself. This will save enormous time compared to relating each pole individually.
Using the pole method, you can automatically relate each span that is found around a specific pole.
For those who used Pole Attachments in OSPInsight Desktop, they will show up in OSPInsight Web 9.19.
Cable Tile Layer Updates
The Cable Tile Layer is a blue line layer that displays on the map when you are past the cable visibility setting in Layer Control. This is done to give you a visual of your cable footprint while reducing the performance hit that comes from rendering every single cable object.
The Tile Layer previously got updated when new cables were added to the map, but cable modifications and cable deletions required a different method to update the layer.
OSPInsight 9.19 changes the way the layer is updated. It now has a configuration setting that determines how frequently the cable tiles "expire". For example, if your setting is to have modified tiles expire every 24 hours, then when a cable span is deleted, added, or modified the tile will be flagged as out of date and within 24 hours the tile layer will be updated.
As always, if you have any feature requests or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me at matt.fisher@iqgeo.com.
Notable Bug Fixes / Minor Changes
Below are the notable bug fixes or minor enhancements we made in this release:
- Fixed an issue with multiple KMZ's being loaded in the same instance.
- Patch Editor Devices are sorted alphabetically now.
- Route Schematic now launches from Splice Pro
- Patch Editor correctly displays equipment that shares the same ID with a Termination Panel