Structured cabling is a complete cabling and hardware system that provides a comprehensive telecommunication infrastructure to help an organisation run its networking tasks smoothly. In a more literal sense, it is the standardised equipment and architectural environment as presented by the TIA/EIA Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard. The standards are used as a guide by manufacturers to ensure interoperability.
Structured cabling is used in a range of areas, including data centres, manufacturing facilities, offices, and others. The system serves a wide range of purposes, such as data transmission and telephone service.
A properly designed and well-maintain structured cabling infrastructure can provide the system predictable performance in addition to the flexibility to accommodate changes, provide redundancy, the capacity to maximise system availability, and the ability to improve the usability of the cabling system in the future.
Structured cabling system is an organised approach to cabling infrastructure using a series of patch panels and trunks. The overall design of the infrastructure is unique in each cabling system. The variations may come from the architectural design of the building or room housing cabling system, the function of the system, the cables and connection products used, the type of equipment the system will support, the configuration of the system, and the specific requirements of users.
While there may be slight variations in the design of the system, each infrastructure is developed as per the standards of cabling design, installation, and maintenance to ensure acceptable system performance.
A structured network cabling system typically comprises the following components:
With a Main Distribution Area (MDA) data centre, Moving, Adding, and Changing (MAC) may become quicker and simpler. MAC is required to keep the system up-to-date and aligned with the changing needs and requirements of users and the organisation.
Structured cabling system can drastically reduce human errors which may significantly minimise downtime and resulting losses.
By creating an organised cabling system, the infrastructure may allow uniform documentation, making cable and port tracing easier and less time-consuming.
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