Which CI Class is the most appropriate for Telco Infrastructure Fiber/Microwave Link?

[Stuart Diener]

Hi,

I have a background of ITSM and Config management at those typical organisation level CI's & Infrastructure.  I have no in-depth familiarity with big Telco infrastructure.  What I need to capture is "Link" data for Fiber optic link or Microwave links as an example.  Where some of the high level attributes might be:

Link ID and or Name

Source Address details

Destination Address details

Link type - Copper, Fiber, Microwave or....

The links are a physical entity, as opposed to something like an SD-WAN.

I have installed the CMDB CI Class Models application - which has "Network Circuit".  This seems to be the closest, but it does not have all the fields I need (so will add them...), but it also has field that mention VLAN - which I tend to associate with smaller scale infrastructure (I could be wrong).

The CMDB Telecommunication plugin also does not have anything that seems to be a match.

So, is there anyone that has tackled this level of Telco CI management and what CI Class(es) were used, or did you create new CI Classes specifically to handle?

TIA.

[Dewald]

Physical would be your Copper, Fiber, Microwave.

Busy implementing this now as a Telco, not a lot of information available that specifically speak to the Data Model from a CSM and CMDB level.

[Kevin Wilamowsk]

Physical connections are point to point between 2 devices. Logical connections are end to end circuits that go through multiple network sites and equipment. Logical connections consume physical connections, network interfaces and other logical connections.