Adding Fiber Path Data in Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller

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How do you input fiber optic path data in HCO? For example, the physical path the fiber takes between geolocations. Is this data typically imported from a ONE’s (optical network element)? Or is the geolocation data imported from a KML file?

[Yona Sh · Accepted solution]

The physical path\location of the fibers is not automatically stored in any system, not EMS\NMS nor any domain controller. Fiber is just physical media and is not reporting its location. The customer should provide the Cisco team with a KML\KMZ file with this physical information. Today, this file can be uploaded only by the HCO engineering team, but it's already aimed at the HCO roadmap to enable the import by the user, to HCO 9.0, it's about Q2 Y24.