What kind of users are suitable for using smart cabling systems?

Select one based on your needs. Hope to help you. Intelligent Management of smart cabling systems mainly involves information recording and updating, error identification, configuration changes, and error alarms.

Specifically, automatically detects and discovers cabling ports, automatically detects connections between ports, understands port statuses, records jumper Connection events, manages remote smart cabling systems in real time, and determines whether jumper connections are authorized. respond to triggering events, control the order of completion, understand the network device ports connected to the smart wiring system, record all jumper changes, form log files, and perform interoperability with the network management system. and has become the main function of the smart wiring system.

Selection of large users to avoid blind Selection

What kind of users are suitable for the smart cabling system? Is it necessary for medium and small users to adopt a smart cabling system? What do users need to pay attention to when selecting a smart cabling system?

Small companies with a few people are well managed, and large companies tend to become the biggest problem. The same is true for smart cabling systems, where only nodes are deployed.

Generally, a smart cabling system is suitable for networks with more than 500 horizontal connections. If the number of connections is less than 500, you can use traditional methods to easily manage them. The number of nodes is large. After several manual jumpers, the database is easy to forget to change. For the financial industry that regards IT investment as a production machine, the smart wiring system should be used most.

Currently, the smart cabling system has attracted the attention of users. In fact, the smart cabling system has become a mainstream trend. Users who know more about cabling are more likely to choose a smart cabling system. Big users are ideal buyers of smart cabling systems, but things are not absolute. The value of data on networks of any scale can make smart management of cabling systems value for money.

The financial industry is quite special. For example, any network interruption in the transaction room will cause great losses. Looking at some advantages of the smart wiring system, we can see that this system can be effectively used in many cases, because it can reduce the system interruption caused by wiring changes.

Therefore, the biggest deciding factor is the end user's understanding of the value of data or the loss caused by the lack of data during system interruption.

Smart cabling is suitable for large users who have more than projects. The larger the project, the harder it is to manage, the more intelligent cabling systems are required. Small and Medium users also need it in key departments and areas. So what problems should users who want to adopt a smart cabling system pay attention?

One of the most important factors is compliance with standards. The use of connectors approved by the Standards Board can facilitate standard-based testing. It should be noted that some "systems" seem more like a collection of various spare parts, which use one manufacturer's connector in the communication room and the other manufacturer's connector in the work area. Where is the demarcation point when a problem occurs?

General knowledge tells us that we should select a system from a manufacturer. Of course, software must also be included in the system, and the system manufacturer must be able to support the entire product set, not just traditional connections. In addition to standards, whether the user's MAC many or few, whether the smart wiring system has real-time functions, whether it is suitable for jumper and connection, whether there is a quality assurance and corresponding training are also objects to be investigated by the user.

Some smart cabling systems can be integrated with network management software, such as HPOpenView, and support multiple network types. This is critical for existing systems, this ensures that you can view the connection status of the entire enterprise network and indirectly shorten the investment return period.

Indeed, it is important for users to consider how to integrate with the network management software when selecting a smart cabling system. In this way, the entire network system is managed in a more unified manner and the value is even greater.

Installation is not complex

Users are concerned about the installation of the smart wiring system. What about the installation of the smart wiring system? In fact, physical installation of a smart cabling system is not more complex than that of a standard structured cabling system. It usually only installs certain electronic devices, and the process is not very troublesome. Users only need to put these electronic devices in the rack, connect it to the sensor cable and the hub port sensor from the horizontal distribution frame.

The true skill for installing a smart cabling system is configuration. These systems rely on a database to provide connection information. If improperly configured, the information may be incorrect or misleading. Some databases are obviously easier to run, but they require a lot of configuration.

Compared with traditional cabling, the smart cabling system imposes different quality requirements on installers. This should also become an important factor for users to evaluate integrators (installers.

Editing and Editing: Is it messy?

It may take some time to make a decision on the selection of new technologies and new products. The same is true for the smart cabling system. What does it bring to users? Is the return on investment satisfactory? Is it convenient to use? These problems make the user confused at a time. The following two questions need to be figured out.

On the one hand, 50% ~ The cost of 100% is not worth it (here we need to explain that the cost of smart cabling systems in different regions accounts for different proportions of the total cost of cabling. Because of the low price of copper cables in China, the proportion is high, the number in the United States should be around 20% ).

Generally, if you select a smart cabling system, you need to spend 50% more than that ~ 100%. How can we determine whether the cost is worthwhile? It should be said that there is no standard answer, depending on the user's specific circumstances.

The main reason is that the user's cabling system will move, add, and change (MAC) More or less. If there is no need to change, then the value of the smart cabling system will not be available. The key is who will know about the future, especially for cabling systems that need to run for 10 years or longer.

It is certain that the difficulty and cost of manual management will naturally increase for projects with long service time. On the one hand, the administrator in charge of the project may have been seeking another high level after several years; on the other hand, the cost of personnel is increasing. At the same time, the user's dependence on information is also increasing, and the unit-time loss caused by network interruption will increase.

If these facts still do not allow users to make up their minds to get 50% more ~ 100% of the cost may still be confused. On the other hand, is it feasible to upgrade to the smart Wiring System in the future? Technically speaking, upgrading is feasible, which is not without question.

However, the user needs to add software and some hardware and change the jumper, which means it is difficult and the construction period is long. If you increase your investment, changing the Jumper will interrupt the network. Is your business allowed? As a matter of fact, there is a product of an era in an era. Now, if you buy a 486 computer, you may not be able to find it. Even if you find it, most users will not buy it, because the corresponding application software can no longer run on such a machine.

The development of cabling systems is also the same. Now it has reached the edge of the smart management system era, which is doomed to be widely used by users, three years later, once the "fried" Cable appeared, it would have to be a mess forever, and it would have been a "constant cut, and chaos.