By project, from survey to handover
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Services · As-built documentation, labelling and network records
The network as it was really installed.
Routes, splices, frames and ports brought onto a diagram that lasts, with unique labelling and a point-by-point match to the test traces. Existing networks included, as a recovery job.
The design says what was meant to be installed. The as-built says what is there.
On site the two rarely coincide: a diversion around an unexpected utility, a splice moved twenty metres, a cabinet rewired at the last minute. ISO/IEC 14763-2 treats documentation as part of the handover, not as an optional annex. Without a point-by-point match between diagram and test traces, a certification report stays an isolated PDF: it says the link worked on the day of measurement, and says nothing at all five years later.
The bill arrives at the first emergency. The technician reaches the fault, the manhole is open, the cable is black like all the others and nobody knows which splice failed: a job that should have cost an hour costs a day. It is paid again in a sale, in due diligence or when a contractor takes over after a tender: a documented network transfers in a few days of handover, an undocumented one is rebuilt in the field, fault after fault.
Services
How a network is brought back onto a readable map.
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Survey what is actually there.
Routes, manholes, closures, frames, patch ports: we start from the field and from whatever documentation survives, not from scratch and not from the original design. The survey is free of charge, even just to see what is missing.
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Measurements provide the cross-check.
Every link is measured with OTDR: the trace gives length and splice positions, and confirms or contradicts the drawing. Where drawing and trace disagree, the trace wins.
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A code, not a handwritten label.
Unique identification of splices, drums and ports, following the principle of standards such as TIA-606-C, so that whoever intervenes in three years — and it will not be whoever installed it — can find their way without surveying again.
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Registers and obligations.
We check whether the infrastructure falls among those required to report to the Italian SINFI register (Legislative Decree 33/2016). Where no obligation applies, an internal georeferenced record stays linked to the as-built.
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Updating as a procedure.
Documentation is updated at every change, not only at handover: a five-year-old as-built is often worse than none. It lives on-premise in your environment or on a dedicated cloud in Italy.
An example, step by step.
Illustrative case, not a real client. A healthcare campus with eleven buildings linked by fibre, grown over twenty years: three different contractors, two extensions, a patch frame with 420 ports and no drawing updated since 2016. The last backbone fault cost a full day, most of it spent working out which cable, in which manhole.
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Start in the field
The crew surveys routes, manholes, closures and frames building by building, recovering whatever drawings survive. No photograph of the site leaves the client’s perimeter: the survey stays in their environment.
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The trace corrects the drawing
Every backbone is measured with OTDR: the trace gives real length and splice positions. In this example two backbones turn out longer than drawn and one splice sits forty metres before the marked point.
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A code for every object
Splices, drums and the 420 ports get a unique label tied to their position on the diagram, following the TIA-606-C principle. The technical department approves the naming scheme before a single label is printed.
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The map and the obligations
We check whether the infrastructure falls under SINFI reporting duties and, for the rest, build an internal georeferenced register linked to the as-built and to the test traces.
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Who updates it, and when
A written procedure remains: every network change updates as-built, labels and register, with a named owner. Without that step the map is out of date again within two extensions.
In this example the eleven backbones and 420 ports return to a readable diagram in roughly 12-15 person-days of survey, measurement and labelling; the estimate is that a fault located on the map drops from a day to a few hours, because the technician knows which splice to open before opening it. Survey, measurements, map and as-built records stay inside the client’s perimeter — on-premise or on a dedicated cloud in Italy — and no image of the site is circulated.
An illustrative example on a typical case: the assumptions are recalibrated on your own data.
What you are left with.
- As-built records with real routes, the physical position of every splice and actual lengths, not the design drawing redrawn.
- Unique labelling on splices, drums and patch ports, consistent with the diagram and readable by anyone.
- A point-by-point match between every link in the as-built and the native test traces.
- An internal georeferenced register, with the check on SINFI reporting obligations documented.
- A written updating procedure, so the map stays true after the next expansion too.
Who has this problem.
- Campuses, hospitals and industrial sites with networks grown through successive extensions and different contractors.
- Bodies and operators that must check their reporting obligations to the national infrastructure register.
- Anyone taking over from a contractor, or acquiring a network, who needs to know what they are inheriting.
- Anyone who has to authorise an excavation without knowing exactly where the cable runs.
Two ways of working.
On call 24/7 for faults and restorations
The damage located by OTDR before any digging, splicing in the field in agreed windows including nights, the link re-certified before service is restored.
In both cases measurements, native traces and as-built records stay yours: on-premise in your own environment or on a dedicated cloud in Italy, in directly staffed data centres.
Frequently asked questions
The questions we are asked most often.
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Our network has no up-to-date as-built: can it be rebuilt without surveying from scratch?
Yes: we start from the field and from whatever documentation survives, not from the original design. Every link is measured with OTDR, and the trace gives real length and splice positions: where drawing and trace disagree, the trace wins. The result is a diagram consistent with the measurements, not a design drawing redrawn.
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How should a patch panel be labelled so that it is readable in ten years?
It needs a unique code tying every splice, drum and port to its position on the diagram, following the principle of identification standards such as TIA-606-C. The naming scheme is approved before the first label is printed. Whoever intervenes in three years will not be whoever installed it: the label is what saves them from surveying again.
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Does our infrastructure fall under the Italian SINFI reporting obligations?
The SINFI register was established by Legislative Decree 33/2016 and concerns mainly operators and utility network owners, not every private corporate network. The check is made case by case and stays documented. Where no obligation applies, the same logic holds on a smaller scale: an internal georeferenced record linked to the as-built.
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What documentation should I require at handover of a fibre network, besides the test reports?
As-built records with the real route, the physical position of every splice and the actual lengths, unique labelling, and a point-by-point match between every link and the native measurement traces. ISO/IEC 14763-2 treats documentation as part of the handover, not as an optional annex. Without that match, the certification report stays an isolated PDF.
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How do I find out where the cable actually runs before authorising an excavation?
You need a georeferenced record linked to the as-built and to the test traces, updated at every network change. A field survey and an OTDR measurement together give the route, the real lengths and the splice positions. A five-year-old as-built is often worse than none.
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