Why Fiber Network Management Becomes Unreadable as You Grow
When Growth Creates Confusion Growing a fiber network should be a sign of success. More customers, more connections, more areas served. But beneath the surface, growth often reveals a silent problem: the system you started with no longer works. Suddenly, your team can’t answer simple questions: - Which fibers are available? - Where does this cable end? - Who did the last splice? The issue isn’t bad people or bad technology — it’s about scale. And when the system isn’t designed to scale, clarity turns into chaos. The Signs of a System Breaking Down Most infrastructure teams don’t notice the tipping point until they’re well past it. What begins as a manageable spreadsheet or a clean set of diagrams slowly becomes an unmanageable patchwork. Here are the warning signs: - A single fiber ID shows up in multiple spreadsheets with different endpoints. - A technician in the field calls — again — to ask where to connect. - Network diagrams are either outdated or only under...