Structured Cabling

Structured cabling is the design and installation of a cabling system that will support multiple hardware uses and can be done in office setups, large IT companies or data centers. Within these setups, the various entities that make up the system work together to protect and manage both current and future equipment, the data transmitted, and the thousands of connections between servers and switches and the outlying areas of the network. All of these entities are interrelated and connected by the structured cabling system. This system can be securely mounted in hazardous conditions, extreme temperatures, rough geographies, difficult topologies and fire prone areas.

  • Scalability:

The required life expectancy of the cabling infrastructure is calculated by determining current and future requirements for data transmission between functional areas of the Data Center or similar setup. Ample space is ensured to support current and future number of ports, servers and switches.

  • Flexibility and Manageability:

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Clarity is obtained from the clients regarding how frequently they will need to make moves, adds and changes, and if needing to reconfigure functional areas of the Data Center or similar setup is anticipated. Also, cabling distances and limitations from one functional area to another is determined ample pathway space to reroute or add more cabling is ensured.

  • Availability:

The required uptime for the setup is determined and level of redundancy for cabling uplinks, power, and cooling is established. Overall level of security for equipment in the setup is also established.

  • Lower total cost of ownership:

The current and future cost per square foot of the setup is determined based on all scalability, flexibility, manageability

and availability requirements. Each of these elements will have a role in determining the design of each of the functional areas of the setup and the cabling products selected. We ensure lower total cost of ownership.

As the amount of data and storage required continues to increase, Data Center managers are looking to implement faster backup and retrieval speeds, better scalability to add more storage, and overall better flexibility and manageability. As a result, network storage is now being moved away from other servers to

a separate network of its own, known as the SAN (Storage Area Netwrok). The SAN is strictly dedicated to transmitting large amounts of data between servers and storage devices such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes. This is most often accomplished using fiber cross-connect or inter-connect technology for maximum data transfer rates.

The use of a centralized SAN cross-connect offers the following benefits:

  • Enables permanent connections to switches so that sensitive ports are never touched.
  • Improves flexibility and manageability with all moves, adds, and changes made at the fiber patch panels in the cross-connect.
  • Any switch can be connected to any equipment location.
  • SAN cross-connect can be placed anywhere in the Data Center for improved security with all switch ports mirrored on fiber patch panels.

We provide SAN as per the needs of the client and the setup required.

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