Actual cost of network faults

Abstract: The use of a fully automated system can help companies optimize asset utilization, maintain highly accurate connection records, and help prevent expensive errors related to connection changes. In addition, network administrators can respond to any connection changes in advance through tailored events or alarms.
Enterprise Network recovery is critical, and any network interruption will cause losses to the business. However, many companies tend to ignore the actual cost of network interruptions. In the middle of a year, a network interruption of just 10 minutes may cause a whole week of losses to every employee. For enterprises, the time loss caused by the decrease in network speed or slow data transmission speed is more difficult to measure.
There are many other unmeasurable costs in the impact of network faults on the company. For example, when the network is paralyzed or the network must be interrupted for maintenance, the revenue flow of E-commerce enterprises will be completely paused. In this case, the share price of E-commerce enterprises will also be negatively affected.
Human error also plays a role in network faults. Disconnecting cables with unclear labels is a common cause of network confusion. Once the Office device is moved, the cable is often re-connected to the wrong socket.
Wiring is a common cause of network failure.
Many companies put all their time and effort on hardware, but bad cables often make all these efforts futile. Cable is the lowest cost in the network, but it is often overlooked, although it is one of the most common causes of network failure.
In fact, recent research shows that 70% of network faults are related to cables, which is not surprising because network cabling between communications and workspaces are exposed and thus prone to faults.
There are also many other factors that may result in poor network cabling system performance. Mixing components from different manufacturers may result in low efficiency due to incompatibility. The last point is that the installation method must comply with strict industry guidelines designed to ensure that the cabling system runs properly independently of the applications selected by the customer and reduce the long-term building operation costs.
Correct cabling
Cabling should be considered as a complete system. If any individual component in the system does not run properly, the entire system will become invalid.
When designing a reliable network, you should consider the physical layer, including copper cables, optical fibers, hubs, receivers, wiring rooms, cable channels and wall panels that constitute the network base. Each component lays the foundation for an efficient cabling system.
Purchase well-designed quality systems and discard any faulty cables or components to avoid all the problems specified here.
In addition, selecting appropriate cabling for the network needs to predict future business needs. Anyone who designs or manages these networks faces a task of ensuring that the system meets current requirements and lays the foundation for meeting future needs in the most economical way.
Procurement decision-making
You must purchase excellent wiring. For example, purchasing a wiring with the highest bandwidth (for example, cat6, rather than cat5) may be a good network investment, but other factors should be taken into account. The customer's estimated length of stay in the building, operating agreement, estimated company development and budget will significantly affect the infrastructure selection.
Although Gigabit Ethernet can use a five-category cabling system in some cases, it is only guaranteed to run over five-or six-category cabling because these products provide higher performance, this provides more room for development for gigabit signaling solutions, which use all four twisted pair cables.
Purchasing an unknown product that is lower than the standard may save some cost, but the actual cost caused by network faults may easily exceed the saved cost. Because the network physical layer is the most prone to problems, it is essential to invest in high-quality cabling.
Prevent Network faults
To achieve the highest network performance and further eliminate fault opportunities, we should continuously monitor the network seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
For this reason, the company should consider implementing intelligent wiring Management (IM) solutions. The IM solution converts any cabling system and connected devices into smart networks to eliminate costly manual cable management. These tools allow you to track and archive all movements and changes that have taken place, while planning network changes from a central location at a strategic height.
Molex Real Time intelligent wiring Management (IM) Solution
Molex enterprise cabling network provides a Real-Time intelligent Cabling Management System to analyze network connection maps in Real Time. Once a change occurs, contact the IT administrator by email or text message, specify the port to be changed.
This is especially useful in remote sites because network administrators cannot stay on these sites all the time, the ability to centrally monitor and track sites and immediately obtain remote connection changes and root cause notifications has become a key security advantage. The ability to diagnose or guide connection changes without scheduling technicians can significantly reduce the cost of monitoring remote sites.
Main benefits of using intelligent wiring Management (IM) Solutions
· Efficient MAC process: the MAC process (mobile, increase, and change) is a daily task for IT staff. By using IM solutions, you can quickly complete changes and provide accurate feedback to technical staff without checking if the line is in use when new users are added, you do not need to spend time updating technical documents.
· Optimized asset utilization: Because the IM solution updates all ports used in the system in real time, it helps administrators quickly and intelligently make device procurement decisions.
· Disaster recovery: the IM solution also helps organizations maintain business continuity and provides electronic snapshots required for connection prior to events. With this information, disaster recovery providers can implement solutions that customers require without making guesses.
Security: Real-Time alarms respond to network changes. network administrators can quickly respond to unauthenticated activities that may occur in a Jumper disconnection or network.
The choice of cabling systems is crucial to the long-term performance of the network, and it is also important to choose a solution with manufacturer's warranty. High-quality systems installed by professionals can achieve trouble-free cabling. Companies must consider their future business needs to determine the required wiring and network performance, although there are more and more people installing cat6 cabling because it provides higher bandwidth, however, cat5e cabling provides a basic performance platform for structured cabling.
By adding an intelligent Cabling Management System (IM), you can transform structured cabling from flexible resources to powerful controlled infrastructure to manage disaster recovery, MAC processes, and automatic work orders. The IIM system with real-time feedback can significantly reduce network interruption costs and eliminate network faults caused by human errors. In fact, measurable network interruption costs may become a thing of the past, at least to eliminate cable problems.