Architecture

How the signal gets from the head end to the subscriber, and what each stretch is called.

The full chain

flowchart LR
    subgraph HE["head end"]
        ODF["ODF"]
    end
    subgraph FIELD["field"]
        M1["joint closure"]
        DP["OTB / TB<br/><small>distribution point</small>"]
    end
    subgraph SUB["at the subscriber"]
        TO["TO"]
    end

    ODF -->|"backbone"| M1
    M1 -->|"distribution"| DP
    DP -->|"drop"| TO

The three cable classes

In FiberQ's menu these three sit side by side, twice — once under Underground and once under Aerial. That is why Georgian renders all three in the same grammatical form, as adjectives, so the list reads evenly.

#	English	Georgian	Meaning
1	Backbone	მაგისტრალური	Transport cable between the main network nodes
2	Distribution	გამანაწილებელი	From a backbone node out to the street distribution points
3	Drop	აბონენტური	From a distribution point to one subscriber's building

Drop is a noun

Drop here is a noun — the drop cable, the subscriber cable. Not the verb. The catalogue flags this separately, because machine translation reads it as a verb almost every time.

The Georgian noun for the concept is მაგისტრალი; the menu uses the adjective მაგისტრალური so all three classes line up in one series.

The two installation methods

English	Georgian	Meaning
Underground	მიწისქვეშა	In a duct or a trench, below ground
Aerial	საჰაერო	Strung overhead on poles

საჰაერო ხაზი ("overhead line") is the established Georgian collocation, which is why that adjective was chosen.

What happens along the route

A cable seldom runs uninterrupted from A to B. Along the way:

• Joint closures — fibres are spliced, or some are branched off
• Slack — coiled spare cable for future splicing (in detail)
• Latent elements — passive elements recorded along the cable
• Branches (Branch) — points where cables meet or split

Branch is not a company branch or a git branch

FiberQ's Branch info button shows how many cables, of which types and capacities, meet at the point you click. French: dérivation.

What FiberQ does with all this

The plugin builds this structure on the map: the route is a line, elements are points, buildings are polygons, and each has its own layer and attributes.

Data model