Managing fiber optic cable networks with spreadsheets in MS Excel and and in AutoCAD used to be a rite of passage. It was like surviving trench work in the rain – slow, dirty, and full of surprises. But nowadyas it’s time to hang up the spreadsheet misery and embrace a better way.
Enter Splice.me – a modern fiber optic cable management software purpose-built to simplify the life of network engineers, designers, fiber techs, utility fiber teams and OSP planners. Whether you’re tracking 50 splice points or 5000, Splice.me helps you design, document, and manage fiber with speed and confidence.
Apparently old-school fiber management slows you down
Let’s be honest, MS Excel, MS Visio, AutoCAD and general design software were never designed for fiber optic management.
But many teams still cling to these tools because “it’s what we’ve always done.” Here’s the reality:
The MS Excel trap:
- You’re scrolling through Sheet43, trying to find that one customer closure
- Before that you are scrolling desperately through excel tabs
- Reconnect cell B127 to cell D72. How do I even do it?
- Now replace a 72 ct cable with 96 ct cable while keeping all the connections
The AutoCAD nightmare:
- Zooming in on a microblock splice tray is like surgery with oven mitts
- One wrong layer turns your diagram into a Jackson Pollock painting
- One layer turns to be raster and you can’t edit it
- And god help you if someone else edited the DWG file last night.
The Visio solution
- Everything is clean and nicely aligned
- That’s because you’ve spent two days drawing and aligning this one splice point
- And now you have to change some splices
- And they don’t fit to the page!
In all cases, fiber management becomes slow, error-prone, and painful. Not to mention unscalable when you’re growing your network. And then you transfer your DWG to a new technician, but he’s good at Visio, not Autocad. So you save it to EMF, he opens it in Visio, and it’s a complete mess.
A better way: fiber network management with Splice.me
Splice.me is a web-based fiber management software designed by fiber network engineers – for network engineers. No more duct-taped spreadsheets. No more painful CAD chaos. Just the power of a fiber-god under your fingertips
With Splice.me, you get:
- Visual fiber diagrams in seconds, not even minutes. Draw cables, couplers, splices in three clicks (without dragging polylines across 4 layers of AutoCAD)
- One central system of truth. No more asking “which spreadsheet is the right one?” Everything is live and in sync.
- Collaboration that works. Field techs, contractors, and designers can all see the same diagram, in real-time. Even via a short link.
- Instant network documentation. Trace fibers, export to other formats, and see what’s connected where – without tab hell.
Real-world example: saving hours on a 144-fiber ring
One of our users – a mid-size ISP in Indiana – used to build their splice diagrams manually in Excel. So the network data consisted of 2 folders – north and south parts, 16 excel files in the north folder and 6 excel files in the south folder. Each excel file represented a fiber network cluster, each node and closure were placed on a separate tab. There were from 30 to about 100 tabs in each file. No one was allowed to touch that! Because it was the result of nearly 20 years of work.
After some hesitation, they transferred everything to Splice.me and it took them under 3 days, not mentioning that they were seeing the software for the first time in their lives. Now anyone can touch it – it’s safe and you can redesign a whole cluster in several hours. And instead of pain they experience pure joy working with it.
“Honestly, it’s like going from a flip phone to a smartphone. I can’t believe we used to do it the old way.”
How Splice.me supports complete network management
Unlike generic tools, Splice.me was purpose-built to meet the challenges of fiber optic cable management:
- Create, edit, update splice diagrams online in your web browser
- All live cable routing, connectivity, and capacity in front of your eyes
- Track fibers with zero guesswork
And since it’s built for teams, Splice.me helps you avoid those “Hey, which version is this?” Slack messages that haunt every engineer. Share a link to a fiber splice diagram – and everyone knows it is up to date and correct.
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Backed by data. Why fiber management systems matter?
According to a study by ISE Magazine, up to 30% of fiber outages are due to bad documentation or untracked changes.
Source: ISE Tech Brief, 2022
Another survey found that network build teams using modern software save an average of 40 hours per 100 miles of fiber deployed – simply through better visibility and coordination.
Source: Broadband Communities, 2023
Pricing that pays for itself
Splice.me starts at just $50/month – that’s less than 1–2 hours of a network engineer’s time.
Think about it: would you rather spend that hour documenting a 432-fiber closure in AutoCad or Excel.. or actually getting the job done in several clicks?
Who Splice.me is perfect for:
- OSP Engineers & Contractors
- Telecom ISPs & Utility Co-ops
- Fiber Network Designers
- Field techs who hate spreadsheets
Get started in minutes instantly
No downloads, no installs. Just sign up at Splice.me and using the most fast and lightweight fiber optic cable network management system today.
Because managing fiber shouldn’t feel like wrestling a spreadsheet or surviving a CAD meltdown. It should just work.
Fiber optic network management software comparison
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Software |
Pros |
Cons |
Price (Est.) |
Best For |
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Splice.me |
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$50/month |
ISPs, contractors, |
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OSPInsight |
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Starts ~$6,000/year |
Enterprise ISPs, |
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VETRO FiberMap |
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$300–$1000+/month |
Broadband builders, |
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IQGeo |
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Custom pricing |
Telcos, utilities with internal IT |
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Bentley Comms (OpenComms |
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$10k+ per seat |
Enterprise utilities & telcos |
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3-GIS |
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Enterprise only ($20k+/yr) |
National ISPs, engineering firms |
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Render Networks |
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Enterprise only, |
Large fiber |
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FiberBase |
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$1000+/year/user |
Legacy telco environments |
Simple, visual web UI
Focused mainly on Real talk: why Splice.me hits a sweet spot
| Most enterprise tools assume you have | Splice.me assumes you have |
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It’s ideal for engineers, lean teams, fast-paced contractors, and anyone tired of getting buried in Autocad layers or Excel tabs or Visio diagrams.
Fiber network management software market current state
- Grand View Research reports the global fiber management systems market reached USD 6.91 billion in 2022, growing at a 13.3 % CAGR through 2030. North America leads the segment.
- DataIntelo projects growth from USD 5.1 billion in 2023 to USD 10.2 billion by 2032 (≈ 8.1 % CAGR) source.
- SPER Market Research forecasts the market to hit USD 11.46 billion by 2033, with an 11 % CAGR source.
These show strong and sustained investment in fiber management solutions, driven by data growth, 5G rollouts, and expanding digital infrastructure.
- Verified Market Reports values the fiber network management software market at USD 1.2 billion in 2024, projected to USD 2.5 billion by 2033 (≈ 9.5 % CAGR)
- A LinkedIn-sourced market review (May 2025) highlights accelerating growth, AI/ML for predictive maintenance, and strong enterprise demand (source).
This confirms that software-focused solutions (like Splice.me) are seeing major uptake across telecom and utility sectors.
- Reviews on AI and ML in optical networks (2018, 2020, 2022) show growing use of analytics in network optimization and predictive fault detection (source).
- A 2020 PMC review on fiber-optic transmission outlines the importance of robust network management tools to support next-gen technologies like 5G
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