Schneider Electric Announces Launch of ArcFM Fiber Manager XI

Fort Collins, Colo., August 2, 2022 – Schneider Electric^[1], the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced the launch of ArcFM Fiber Manager XI, the premier GIS-based network inventory management system for outside plant communications networks. Fiber Manager XI is built on ArcGIS Pro, powered by the ArcGIS Utility Network and extends ArcFM Editor XI to meet today’s challenges of scale, data quality, network analysis and visualization.

Fiber Manager XI delivers fiber optic network information in a seamless data fabric, supporting mapping, planning, designing and managing of fiber optic networks and the underground structure networks that house them. The application’s focus is simplifying the creation, editing, validation and interpretation of complex fiber optic equipment hierarchies and connections.

“The telecom industry is experiencing a major transformation, and GIS data is at the heart of this shift,” Jay Stinson, Vice President, Digital Grid, said. “Fiber Manager XI produces a significant evolution in GIS-based fiber optic network management, enabling users to reimagine how they manage and leverage GIS data across their organization.”

Fiber Manager XI delivers advancements in three key areas to optimize ArcGIS for communications services providers....

• Robust equipment visualization: enabling users to quickly interpret and understand increasingly complex network data with maps, equipment details and multi-platform