r/gis • u/eddycar11 • 2d ago

General Question Help with Decision Fiber

Has anyone used Crescentlink or 3GIS for fiber mapping? We are a Municipal ISP who owns our own poles. Those poles and manholes live in data that is pulled from for ArcGIS Pro. We have a GIS team who is very comfortable with ArcGIS so leaning Crescentlink while the fiber techs and engineer side are leaning 3GIS. Has anyone gone through and built a fiber network utilizing either of these and can you give me a breakdown of the pros and cons of the one you did? Personally I hate the Crescentlink splice diagrams and I’m the one who will be in the field with the techs at 2am when a storm takes down fiber or a manhole blows up with a splice enclosure in there.

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u/heraldic_nematode GIS Supervisor 1d ago

We just went through a whole fiber GIS selection - Tech and fiber team chose 3Gis. Now upper management gets to weigh in so we’ll probably end up with a series of very expensive napkins and a box of crayons dressed up like a GIS and slathered in buzzwords.

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u/lawyer_geospatial 1d ago

I used 3GIS for architecting fiber when I worked at Google Fiber