Automated Network Design and Visualization for Digital Infrastructure
Network design can be a challenging job. A designer has to hold an entire circuit in their head: which ports pair, which cable carries which fibers, which route will require the fewest connections, and so on.
With Carma, it doesn’t have to be that way. Our design functionality has always focused on accuracy. Designers could see the status of network assets and use Carma to build designs. And because all our data is connected, you can trust that you’re capturing every single asset on your invoices.
Guided Auto-Design and Powerful Visualization
New capabilities in Carma take on the difficulties our customers are facing. You can:
Have Carma propose and build the best routes between two points automatically
Visualize a full design as an interactive diagram that shows components, ports, cables, and connections the way they actually connect
Finding the right path and making sense of a complex circuit, two of the most demanding parts of the job, become something a smaller team can do quickly and confidently.
Automatic Path Design: Pick the Best Route Instead of Tracing One
In a large legacy data center, finding a connectivity path between two ports means accounting for complex ISP routing that crosses floors and data halls. A manual search can miss viable options entirely. Good routes go unbuilt because no one spots them among the layers of cross-floor and inter-hall connectivity.
Automatic Path Design changes the starting point.
Choose your endpoints and Carma proposes the best candidate routes to pick from, mapping the paths across floors and data halls that manual searching tends to overlook.
This turns a task that rewards years of route-tracing instinct into a short list of viable options anyone on the team can evaluate. The expertise that once lived only in a senior designer's head is built into how the route gets found.
Design Layout Visualization: The Whole Circuit At a Glance
Carma’s Design Layout Visualization shows your designs as an interactive diagram.
See components and ports and their connected cables, fibers, and paths. This includes seeing all nested paths and channels so you can visualize your network several levels deep.
This functionality is essential for closing knowledge gaps for new designers. A design becomes something a newer engineer can QA with confidence, and a senior engineer can check in seconds, rather than a puzzle only the person who built it can read.
Why This Matters Now
Design tooling this capable matters more today than it would have a few years ago as the industry runs short of experienced engineers.
Nearly one-fifth of telecom workers are now between 55 and 64. Over the next decade the amount of workers retiring is expected to outpace the number of new workers coming in.
This shortfall is coinciding with skyrocketing demand. There’s more network to design and greater complexity in every circuit.
Software that lets a smaller team design more, with less specialized knowledge required to get it right, is how you close that gap.
How Easy Design Protects Your Margins
The payoff reaches past the design team.
When every port, cross connect, and path in a design is modeled correctly, finance can invoice for every cross connect that's actually in service, rather than the subset that made it cleanly from a design document into a billing system. That's revenue you already earned and might otherwise leak.
The same model tracks the vendor side. When you design last-mile connectivity over a third-party circuit, Carma knows the vendor expense tied to it. So, when that connectivity is retired or moved onto your own infrastructure, you know to turn the vendor charge off instead of paying for a service you no longer use.
Bottom line: Bill for more of what you deliver, stop paying for what you've retired, and the margin math moves in your favor on both sides.
The Bigger Picture
Accurate network data is the foundation everything else depends on, including the automation and AI the whole industry is racing toward.
A design environment where routes are generated from real inventory and every circuit is modeled cleanly is the same foundation those next steps will need.
The talent gap is real, and it isn't closing soon. The response is to make the expertise you have go further, protect the revenue your designs represent, and build on data clean enough for whatever comes next.
Want to see Carma’s design functionality in action? Request a demo.