Tools
Free tools for data centre engineers
Twenty calculators, planners and generators for the tasks engineers do on site. Every tool runs in your browser on figures you control. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent to us, and every assumption is on the page where you can change it.
Fibre and optics
Fibre loss budget calculator
Check whether expected optical loss fits the optics' power budget before or after installing a link.
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Optics link compatibility checker
Check that both ends of a fibre link will work together before going to site.
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OTDR event table analyser
Turn an OTDR event list into a clear pass/fail handover table.
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Cable length estimator
Order the right patch or trunk lengths with slack and waste allowances.
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Fibre colour code lookup
Identify a fibre's tube and strand colour by number, or the reverse.
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DWDM / CWDM channel planner
Convert between channel, frequency and wavelength, and plan channel sets.
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Transceiver part number decoder
Paste a part string and get a plain-English description.
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MPO breakout and polarity planner
Work out fibre mapping and polarity for MPO trunks and breakouts.
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Rack and power
Rack U-space planner
Plan device positions in a cabinet before a rack-and-stack job and hand over a visual elevation.
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PDU and power capacity calculator
Check whether planned equipment fits a circuit or PDU with headroom and redundancy.
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Rack heat load and airflow estimator
Estimate cooling needs from IT load and supply/return temperature difference.
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Rack weight and floor load estimator
Check that a populated cabinet is within its rating and flag when facilities must approve it.
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Network
Documentation
Cable label generator
Generate consistent A-end and B-end labels for a patching job.
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Facility access readiness checklist
Confirm everything needed to get in and work the night before a site visit.
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Site visit report generator
Produce a professional job report for the customer at the end of a visit.
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Data centre acronym and term finder
Search 60+ data centre acronyms and terms with definitions.
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Planning
Data centre migration runbook builder
Produce a structured, phase-based runbook skeleton for a rack or site move.
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Smart hands job time estimator
Estimate on-site time for a scoped job. Times only, never prices.
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Downtime cost calculator
Estimate the cost of a data centre outage from your own revenue, staff and response-time figures.
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