Network Cabling plan to remain unchanged

Bkjia.com November 23 Internet headlines]Our goal is to say goodbye to the intricate wiring.System Administrators usually do not admit this kind of thing, but in fact many people are really not very good at Cable layout, which is the main reason why I recently developed a universal solution for them. Recommended for editing: Open your eyes and take a look at the real standardized data center (multiple charts ))

Here I want to make a tough statement: System Administrators despise wiring. Most people in the industry regard this type of crude activity very low and think it is not worth their precious time. Compared to dealing with technical difficulties, wiring is simply a type of abuse of your own business skills.

However, the actual situation is that many people simply do not know how to route the cables. For them, the work is very complicated and troublesome. There is no doubt that the entire deployment process is not only boring, but also requires a lot of obscure implementation standards, which is simply a tragedy.

Experienced cabling personnel can handle several cables every minute. In contrast, it took me 15 minutes to compress the child wires in a CAT 6 crystal head.

Cable Mountain

This situation has recently caused me a lot of trouble. You can see how terrible the data center wiring is. Due to work location changes, I need to migrate my office equipment along with the data center at the original location to another building. Looking at my colleagues busy with the migration work, I have nothing to worry about.

This experience, in addition to the awkwardness, has led me to seek solutions for cabling problems in various areas of the enterprise.

As we have higher and higher requirements on cabling, the specific implementation steps have become increasingly strict. The difficulty of perfect CAT 6a cable processing is naturally far higher than that of the old CAT 5 cable layout. The entire process not only has lower compression rate, but also has higher tool requirements. The costs of related testing instruments are also increasing rapidly.

This situation also exists in enterprises. RJ-11 phone is gradually disappearing, instead relying on CAT 5 at least CAT 5) IP Phone. Fiber Channel is also evolving, and even USB has been upgraded several times. This is the trend we need to keep up.

It is of far-reaching significance to equip infrastructure with various types of optical fiber, dual-strand transmission lines, and unlimited bandwidth technologies, as well as to enable converged networks.

The main purpose of various existing cabling solutions is to provide support for a large number of competing connectors. However, this demand is gradually decreasing. For example, infinite bandwidth still has limits on data throughput and latency over Ethernet, but companies like Intel are working hard to make full use of this technology.

Promising Ethernet

According to my personal guess, the Ethernet specification will fade out of people's field of view in two update cycles from now on. Fiber Channel is a success example in this regard. Today, it has been widely regarded as a better transmission method than Ethernet.

The concept of more scalable Ethernet specifications is outdated. Our next network upgrade is likely to include a variety of ancillary products without additional costs.

Copper leads everything

The cost-effectiveness of Ethernet itself is a major factor in maintaining its dominant position since it grew up, because it uses standard copper cables. With these cables, we can support our own telephone system, customer-oriented network, storage mechanisms, and server connectors.

Here I will talk back to the converged network mentioned previously. Its advantage is simplicity: a set of physical devices, a network card, a switch, a paper supplier contract, and a series of expensive cable testing tools. This is all about a converged network.

Converged networks, whether good or bad, will ultimately represent the future

From the perspective of business terminals, infrastructure cabling is considered a major investment project. Enterprise owners are not interested in upgrading each system and removing all original cables.

In the next 10 to 15 years, the dominant position of copper cables remains uncertain. However, in the time that comes after, I will give my thumbs up for the elimination of these old systems.

Just like floppy drives or parallel ports, it still takes time to popularize Fiber Channel. Many enterprises have invested heavily in cables and hope that the current mechanism can play a long-term role.

But Bluntly speaking, it is clear that no one is planning to build a brand new fiber channel system. Its limitations are very obvious, and even if it can exist for 15 years, optical fiber cannot become the first choice of the times in any way. However, whether a converged network is good or bad, it will eventually represent the future.

The cables that will dominate each computer connection over the next 15 years will start with the next generation of CAT-X we will choose soon.

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