Master the management and intelligence of the cabling system

1. Wiring management scope

Wiring management is used to identify and record the wiring equipment, cables, information sockets, and other facilities in the work areas of equipment rooms and exchange rooms in a certain mode. The content includes: the implementation of management methods, identifiers, color labels, cross connections, jumpers, and other content makes the user system easy to maintain and manage, and improves the management level and work efficiency, the flexibility, openness, and scalability of the Integrated Wiring System are achieved.

The Integrated Wiring cable is the infrastructure of the Integrated Wiring System and the central nervous system of the entire network. It can provide intelligent buildings with applications of voice, data, images, multimedia, and other systems, and is constantly expanding. This benefits from the network flexibility and high reliability of the Integrated Wiring System, but it also brings new problems, mainly manifested in the use of the system and the development of the network, the user must inevitably move, add, or modify the connection cables so that the Jumper continuously changes. The management of the Jumper may occur in the main distribution frame and floor distribution frame between devices, numerous cables are difficult to avoid confusion, which has always been a matter of great concern to users and manufacturers.

2. Select the management mode of the cabling system

In response to the above problems, Schneider's Meilan nfra + Smart wiring system focuses on human management. How to design the system to facilitate construction, installation, and management, and minimize the amount of movement and addition, this solution avoids human errors during changes, improves the quality of installation, maintenance, and management, reduces signal attenuation, and ensures normal transmission rates. It provides a new design concept and technical innovation, mainly reflected in:

(1) Management of the cabling color logo, that is, to provide a distribution frame with multiple colors or independent and transparent label holders;
(2) Intelligent Management of racks and cables.

(1) The management method of the color logo of the cabling system is suitable for cabling systems with small projects, a small number of user information points, simple and scattered network structures, and only a small number of trunk lines or a small number of floor distribution racks, the color logo management solution is usually used.

(2) Intelligent Management of cabling, suitable for large-scale or extremely large integrated cabling system projects. Intelligent Buildings form a garden for large and medium-sized single-rise buildings or multiple buildings, there are many communication business types and user information points, and the communication network structure is complicated. Generally, the electronic distribution frame computer should be used for management, that is, the intelligent wiring management method.

3. Standards for Cabling Management

Currently, the telecommunications infrastructure management standard is: TIA/EIA-606 standard, which is the telecommunications infrastructure management standard for commercial buildings, it is currently the only international management standard for telecommunications infrastructure of commercial buildings. Management Infrastructure includes the following:

(1) terminal components located in the work zone, wiring room, equipment room, and introduced facilities;
(2) telecommunication cable cables and connectors;
(3) Telecommunications cabling path, connector location, terminal component location:
(4) Telecommunications grounding and connection.

4. Implementation of the management method of wiring color logo

Color logo management is used to manage cables in each connecting area, and jumper connections are used between different color logo areas according to application requirements. The color mark is used to differentiate the nature of the wiring equipment. It identifies the wiring modules arranged by nature, indicating the connection area, physical location, number, capacity, specification, and so on, so that the management personnel can clearly identify them. That is, on the distribution frame, lines from different directions or different application function devices are centrally deployed and marked in different colors, when a project contains multiple device questions, swap rooms, and floor wiring questions, a uniform color label should be used to differentiate the wiring areas for various purposes. The Integrated Wiring management system usually uses three types of labels: cable, area, and plug-in tags.

4.1 color logo Management

All distribution frames of the Meilan nfra + series are color panels for multiple (6) color distribution frames, making the distribution frames easier to identify and manage. Provide 6-port label holders in 5 colors for different applications and management needs; or provide independent and transparent 6-port label holders with dual-sided printed serial numbers or manually defined serial numbers, this makes Cabling Management simpler and clearer.

4.2 Management of distribution frames and related connectors

(1) The MULtiPLUS Distribution Frame Panel is a separate port management method. Therefore, you can easily check, replace, or correct each port. The accessibility of ports is a major innovation in the Meilan cabling system. Therefore, all management and maintenance operations can be completed at the front end.

(2) Management of cat5e, cat5e, cat5e, and cat5e information modules, optical fiber Management Units, and Voice Distribution Units is supported in the 19 "space at the height of IU, the functions of each port can be set by the customer.

(3) cable management

The backend of the distribution frame has a longer cable bracket and a reserved cable slot. You can also use a cable management bar to fasten and identify the cable.

The optical fiber module can be used on the MULtiPLUS wiring (VDl9910I/F) to achieve mixed management of copper and optical fiber cables.

(4) optical fiber management unit: the optical fiber Management Unit is a dust-proof and closed design. The optical fiber winding position is reserved in the unit, three and six Optical Fiber management units can manage 6-core and 12-Core Optical Fiber respectively, you can also manage various common optical fiber connectors (such as MT-RJ, LC, SC, and ST) and manage up to 48-core optical fiber cables in the IU cabinet space.

(5) The MULtiPLUS distribution frame information port uses a tool-free installation management information module. All maintenance operations are completed at the front end of the distribution frame. Each port is managed separately. during maintenance, only the supporting parts of the corresponding port are removed, no tools are required.

5. Intelligent Cabling Management of The Meilan nfra + series

5.1 basic functions of smart Cabling Management

Intelligent wiring management is a real-time and intelligent management solution for structured cabling. It can complete and organically combine hardware and software, through this system, you can obtain the Configuration Structure and running status of the cabling and network systems in real time, and monitor, monitor, and alert various illegal (not pre-defined) systems. The cabling system and connected devices are converted into smart networks, reducing the inconvenience caused by manual operation management. In the end, they can be recorded at the telecom device management room or the data management center around the clock, automatically generates complete network fault diagnosis documents for the network system.

5.2 contents of the smart Cabling Management System

In the preliminary construction and operation and maintenance management of Integrated Wiring, information related to the wiring system mainly includes:

(1) use of devices and cables, use department, LAN topology, information transmission rate, and terminal equipment configuration.

(2) Hardware number, Color Mark, link function and main characteristic parameters, link status, fault record storage, device location login, and cable direction.

Intelligent Cabling Management is suitable for optical fiber cables of different levels (such as OMl, OM2, 0M3, and OSl) of cat5e and cat6 cable series including shielded and unshielded copper cable series. It also includes different types of Optical Fiber ports, such as sT, SC, sFF, etc.

5.3 smart Cabling Management

The Integrated Wiring System is the physical basis for network operation. For network administrators, it ensures the normal, safe, and reliable operation of the network:

(1) high reliability of equipment operation: including active devices (mainly devices provided by network services, such as network switches) and passive devices (mainly integrated cabling of various connectors, etc ).

(2) efficient equipment management and maintenance: first, we should pay attention to the indicators and functions of high-quality brand products to fundamentally solve the problems of high performance and high reliability, but management is also a very important link.

Intelligent wiring management: Currently, there are two main ways to achieve intelligent management of electronic distribution racks and smart wiring management components.

5.3.1 intelligent electronic distribution frame Management (system)

(1) intelligent wiring management: at present, the electronic distribution frame management system provides network administrators with a new generation of management means. The main application system has a large number of points and a large scale of projects or important projects. The electronic management distribution frame applies electronic detection technology and sensor technology to the traditional distribution frame system and automatically records the use of each port of the distribution frame, this ensures that the data used on the distribution frame is consistent with the preset data in the network management computer. The most important function is to monitor the normal engineering status of each device on the network in real time, real-time detection, fault diagnosis, and automatic recording of accurate and real-time network management documents.

(2) features of the electronic distribution frame: compared with the traditional distribution frame, the electronic distribution frame has the following unique functions:

1) Realize the electronic jumper;
2) Real-time port detection;
3) Immediate fault diagnosis;
4) The active device runs online power supply.

The technical advantages of the electronic distribution frame are indisputable, but the current price is high. From the perspective of technological development, the price reduction is a trend. The electronic distribution frame or intelligent management system will be widely used in integrated wiring network management.

(3) intelligent wiring management software: the smart wiring management software is a network database that is managed in real time and connected to PCs and network devices, it includes a network composed of all active and physical passive components for each user, with the shortest time and the lowest cost, the network connection can be smoothly moved, added, changed, and maintained, as well as man-machine conversations such as preset parameters, browsing and viewing, retrieval, and content validation.

5.3.2 Management of intelligent wiring components (system)

The wiring management component method is applicable to a traditional structured wiring system that has been installed. All the wiring links of the traditional wiring system adopt the wiring management method, and the original distribution frame and other facilities must be retained, that is, a smart wiring management component system can be installed without buying new smart distribution frames and other facilities. That is, without damaging the end connection of the original distribution frame, it is embedded outside the original distribution frame to turn the original passive wiring distribution frame into an intelligent management (electronic) distribution racks are used for smart wiring management and operation. Using the same software as the electronic distribution frame intelligent management system, the system functions are basically the same as those of the electronic wiring Intelligent Management System.