Two views of the same network
Passive inventory describes physical network infrastructure. In Lumacorp’s supplied scope, this includes routes, cables, joints, ducts and splices. Active inventory describes equipment and links associated with mapped locations.
The distinction helps organize records. It does not mean the two inventories should lose their common site or route context.
Why location matters
An asset list can identify what exists. Geographic context helps a team locate it and understand the stretch or site it belongs to. Site-level assets and capacity support a different question from the cable or duct record along a route, but both contribute to network understanding.
Handover is a useful connection point
Installation and commissioning includes test records and asset-linked handover documents. Connecting those documents to the relevant asset gives operations teams a route to the delivery context without searching a separate archive by filename.
Agree the identifiers early
Define the asset categories and identifiers your teams use. Review how site, equipment and route context should relate. Confirm the actual update process and permissions rather than assuming an inventory is complete as soon as it is imported.
Keep adjacent systems in scope
Mapped network inventory is not automatically a warehouse, procurement or depreciation system. Identify any external systems that need to remain connected and agree which one owns each update.
Explore network asset inventory and installation and commissioning for the connected workflow.