Data center infrastructure priorities: cabling systems

Infrastructure is important to data centers, just as drainage systems are important to urban construction. There are plenty of tall buildings on the city floor, the surface of the city will disappear.

So how can we pay attention to infrastructure to avoid data centers from losses in the event of storms? Infrastructure is a concealed project and a project that requires stronger vitality. In addition, the construction of the infrastructure must meet the needs of two to three network cycles, therefore, when deploying the data center infrastructure, we must first consider two aspects: first, forward-looking, and second, standardization.

Colleagues from some infrastructure manufacturers mentioned that infrastructure deployment should be proactive and have vitality. In terms of standardization, infrastructure cabling standardization is more advanced than imagined. TIA606, its predecessor, is TIA606A. Now the standard officially released is TIA606B.

We need to make good plans on how to build a dynamic network platform that can support Burst Traffic and support our expected traffic growth in the future. How should we deploy various application platforms, such as cloud computing or greener and more efficient platforms? What kind of infrastructure is required for data centers in the future? I have mentioned a 4S standard in the industry. It includes high bandwidth, fast subordinates, high density, and manageability. Now I will explain this standard from three perspectives:

The first aspect is the modularization of the data center, which has many extensions. For wiring, modularization is actually a fast subordinate and custom pattern, it also helps us build a more flexible and subordinate data center. In fact, for the current data center, the most lacking is the architect. In the architecture, the most involved in the data center neural system is integrated wiring, integrated Wiring is a new network architecture and a neural system brought about by redundancy. This neural system is not simply a combination of several modular products, A complete and efficient neural system needs to be designed by experienced architects. Although modular construction has great advantages, it will face great challenges for network and wiring engineering.

So how can we face this challenge? We put corresponding cabinets and racks in a space. At this time, network equipment is gradually in place or not yet in place, so the cabling system should be introduced and constructed at this time. However, many people do not understand a problem, that is, wiring is the intersection of data center construction and IT construction. How can this problem be understood? When you purchase IT devices, wiring is actually part of IT. However, before you use IT equipment, wiring is part of the IDC construction. We usually ignore this intersection. If we ignore it, you will be passive. IT may affect the construction of your IDC, or even the future IT deployment.

In the second aspect, the modular Fast deployment is high-speed and reliable. For example, for highway acceleration, we need to build more lanes to achieve our goal. So how can we speed up data centers as part of operations and networks? Of course, this requires the support of the cabling system, and our current focus is definitely not 1g or 10g, but 40 thousand G and 0.1 million G,

This requires us to be proactive in deploying the cabling system and adapt to future development needs. As for how to increase the speed, improving the speed in transmission is nothing more than three aspects. The first encoding and decoding technology, the second is to provide wider bandwidth resources, and the third is to use multiple channels in parallel. The 40 thousand m and 0.1 million m technologies use multi-mode parallel transmission, just like highway multi-lane simultaneous driving, so that the speed can be significantly improved.

In the future, the interfaces used by 40 thousand m and 0.1 million m technologies are not commonly known ST, FC, SC, and other connectors. They are no longer Single-core interfaces, but multi-core interfaces, at this time, there will also be a high-density device interface, no longer a single core, the device interface will also become MPO. MPO means a multi-core, high-density connector. However, most device interfaces, such as vswitches and servers, are more common in the market. Therefore, we need to understand this development trend when deploying a data center cabling system and reserve MPO interfaces for the data center.

Third, many enterprises have realized the importance of data center management. So the importance of management is raised so high today because the challenge facing end users is to use specific tools to maintain the data center. This involves the concept of intelligent infrastructure management. Although it is still a broad concept, tools must be available for management. We need to expand the existing data center, or, to achieve intelligent infrastructure management when building a cloud data center, you need to introduce an intelligent cabling system. Intelligent cabling systems include electronic distribution frames, Smart managers, and software. In a sense, they are also a fusion of sensors and sensor networks, as well as Ethernet and IP addresses.

Only with an intelligent management system can the data center help us quickly establish logical and physical mappings. It is the logic signal we have learned and the physical location where it is actually located. Can we form a corresponding relationship and easily report problems in the data center, search, track, and alert.

Recently, the latest virtuimax imVision solution released by the U.S. Government can provide you with higher visual network operations, allowing you to track the physical locations of all network devices in real time, such as desktops, laptops, wireless access points, IP phones and IP cameras. It takes only 60 seconds to locate the fault, quickly take troubleshooting measures, and reduce the downtime. IT is not only a smart IT solution, but also has great business value. ImVision reduces downtime, energy consumption, and maintenance costs, and your investment will return quickly. This is the value of intelligent management.

As an industry member in the Integrated Wiring industry, we sincerely hope that enterprises will pay sufficient attention to the deployment of data center infrastructure in the future, so that they can be based on the present and look to the future, in this way, you can see the rainbow in the sky after the rainstorm.