Cabcentric is a complementary application to CMPIC, aimed at companies and organisations which have massive cabling infrastructure but where the requirements for the routing and installation of the cables are of less importance than the management of the connectivity and termination points of these cables.
The Cabcentric Cable Management System was designed using Cloudis’ own V9 development environment, which is based on two technologies – Java™ and Oracle™.
The rules of how the data is structured, edited and accessed are all held in the Oracle™ database. Since the rules are also held as data, this offers tremendous flexibility in how Cabcentric can be customised and adapted as requirements emerge and change.
Key Standard Features
- Database documents the totality of the cabling infrastructure with records relating to locations, cables, devices, ports, faceplates, terminations, patching, associated documents etc.
- Any type of document or file can be associated with an object in Cabcentric e.g. installation photographs, manuals, videos etc. These documents and files are then stored in the electronic vault and can be retrieved using right mouse clicks.
- Each device type has an associated detail form generated by Cabcentric which is used for populating and showing terminations and patches.
- All types of cables can be managed including individual tubes and strands within fibre optic cables.
- Connectivity can be traced from any suitable start point, through coupler panels, splices, and patches to end-point devices such as switches.
- The routes of cable or fibres are shown in the Cabcentric Navigator – e.g. face plate to patch panel, patch panel to duct bank, duct bank to man hole, man hole to duct bank, duct bank to patch panel, patch panel to face plate.
- Results of searches can be output to .CSV files for opening in spreadsheets.
- Access to data and functions is controlled by sophisticated roles and rules.
- The entire application is web-enabled
Examples of Additional Features
- Integration with AutoCAD™, and outputs to Visio™ and Office™.
- Items such as wall-mounted faceplates can be documented on intelligent AutoCAD™ floor-plans and then processed automatically to populate Cabcentric with device records to represent each faceplate, and cable records for each cable terminating there.
- An electronic document vault is used to store the AutoCAD™ drawing saved as a PDF, meaning that a cable can be highlighted in the Cabcentric Navigator, and the appropriate PDF file is then retrieved from the vault, opened in Acrobat Reader, and searched to highlight the cable on the drawing.
- Information on items such as Rack Layouts (normally shown in the Cabcentric Navigator) can be shown through Visio™ diagrams generated entirely automatically from data in the database. The layout is generated from templates and stencils which can be defined by the customer.
CABCENTRIC Technical Requirements (Software Dependencies)
| Installation | Dependencies |
|---|---|
| Database Server | Oracle database 19c running on Windows or Linux/UNIX supported by Oracle |
| Middleware Server | Any platform supported by Apache Tomcat |
| Client | Java Web Start (JRE 8+) |
CABCENTRIC Technical Requirements (Hardware Dependencies)
| Installation | Dependencies |
|---|---|
| Database Server | Any platform supported by Oracle database |
| Middleware Server | Any platform supported by Apache Tomcat |
| Client | Any platform supporting Java runtime |
