Contact Us

Broadband NetworkPlanning & Design

Crafting the Plan

At Vector Infrastructure Group, our engineering partners work with you to create a customized network design strategy that caters to your unique needs. This involves setting a timeline for continuous plan updates and identifying solutions to initiate and maintain your network efficiently.

Using GIS technology, we harness real-time data to foresee and tackle potential challenges, streamline construction timelines, and boost efficiency and profitability at every project stage.

Value Design Partners

VIG will deliver a complete design for an underground and aerial FTTH network and apply valued design techniques and approaches to assist in reducing the cost of construction.

A detailed breakdown of our proposed phasing, tasks and deliverables are as follows.​

High-Level Design

Once the requirements are sufficiently established, we create the High-Level Design and design documents. The first step is developing the network architecture. The network architecture creates the parameters that drive the fiber design, determining capacity, scalability, and redundancy. The following decisions will be documented in the High-Level Design network architecture:

  • Size and quantity of fiber bundles for backbone, feeder, and distribution
  • Type and level of redundancy
  • Maximum capacities and scalability of an overall network

Route Design

The route design is the second component of the High-Level Design. Its goal is to select the most direct and accessible paths, creating a network that is optimized for construction and maintenance. We will conduct a desktop design using GIS design tools to map out the routes efficiently.

Upon completion of initial designs and estimates, we will finalize the design by conducting a review with stakeholders. During the review, we will discuss the network architecture, technology, and route, as well as:

  • Propose one or more network designs, including the fiber backbone, feeders and distribution plans and necessary supporting structures
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of deployment strategies
  • Discuss various technology choices in terms of operational costs, flexibility of service offerings, and future viability
  • Discuss route and route alternatives

Pre-Design

  • Develop the project schedule with input from our customers
  • Perform a desktop review of proposed routes and project requirements
  • Perform initial route consultation with comments and feedback

Throughout the process, we help you stay on course and mitigate risks. Our broadband network planning and design services include the following deliverables:

High Level Design

  • Import all provide maps data, shape files and pre-design notes into GIS
  • Identify FSAs and central node locations
  • Create preliminary route layouts utilizing our in-house design program
  • Perform construction routing analysis
  • Optimize route layout
  • Develop fiber cable sizing and strand counts
  • Identify locations for huts, vaults, splitters, splice cases and handholes, as required
  • Develop permitting matrix and estimated costs
  • Develop FSA strategy and document
  • Develop labor and bill of materials with estimated cost
  • Develop preliminary route drawings for detailed network and field engineering
  • Distribute High-Level Design GIS files and section overview drawings

Detailed Network Engineering Plans Scope of Work

We will proceed to the Detailed Network Engineering phase upon approval of the High-Level Design. We will perform detailed route surveys to finalize the GIS layouts. From GIS layouts, we will create scaled route drawings with match lines and key maps for construction releases to use in the issue. In addition to the route drawings, we will provide typical fiber construction and installation details, as necessary.

To finalize the desktop design and create the necessary CAD drawings, we will:

  • Perform detailed route surveys
  • Finalize GIS design
  • Create scaled route drawings with match lines and keymap in CAD
  • Provide typical fiber construction details
  • Provide typical installation details (handhole, splice case, entrances, patch panel and splice diagram)

To ensure the most successful implementation, we will use a phased project approach that includes a design review process with preliminary and final design submittals and reviews.

During the Detailed Network Engineering effort, VIG will complete the following tasks

Field Walkout

  • Engage Outside Plant Engineer to field survey the entire route
  • Verify and validate field conditions and identify alternatives, as necessary
  • Log ground, construction, and hazard conditions along route

Detail Level Design

  • Update GIS design with collected field data
  • Create CAD base map, route, and construction detail drawings
    • Complete typical underground drawings (cable depth, hand hole placement, crossings, etc.)
    • Complete typical aerial drawings
    • Finalize route distribution
    • Finalize hut, vault, and handhole locations
    • Complete network design
    • Complete hut or hub location designs
    • Finalize fiber assignments
    • Generate splicing diagrams

  • Finalize bill of materials
  • Finalize material specifications
  • Develop hub agreements

The Detail Level design prints will include the following information:

  • Engineer’s name
  • Date of survey
  • Reference to [Customer] work order number
    Number on each sheet and sheets cross-referenced legend
  • Tax district, school districts and county name, section township and range
  • Street or road names, railroad company, rail crossing owner and/or pole or cable route number
  •  Type of highway (i.e., state, city, or county)