Overview and Development Trend of Cabling Management Software

Wiring Management Software Overview

Integrated WiringManagement is 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. Thanks to the network flexibility and high reliability of the Integrated Wiring System, it is constantly expanding, 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 inevitable and chaotic, which has always been a concern of users and manufacturers.

Therefore, it is proposed to use wiring management software to manage line resources and improve the management level. The current understanding of Integrated Wiring System Management Software is often vague with the understanding of network management software and electronic distribution frames, therefore, the differences between the Integrated Wiring management software and the software are described first.

The Integrated Wiring System Management Software is a set of systems. modules form a graphical guide database for the physical structure of integrated wiring. Then, precise, efficient, and changeable maintenance is implemented for these devices, links, information points, and terminal-related persons.

Network management software on the market can be divided into the following types: Network Asset Management, network monitoring, log analysis, route tracking, detection tools, network suites, etc. Of course, it can also be classified as follows: network management system, application performance management, desktop management system, employee behavior management, and security management. Generally, it is unlikely to confuse the Integrated Wiring management software with the Desktop Management System, employee behavior management system, and security management system.

The Network Management System (NMS) monitors, configures, and diagnoses network hardware devices. Main functions include Automatic Topology Discovery, remote configuration, performance parameter monitoring, and fault diagnosis. Network management systems are generally developed by two types of companies. One is a general-purpose software supplier, and the other is a variety of equipment manufacturers. The NMS system developed by general software vendors is a general network management system for network devices of various vendors. Currently, it is popular with network management systems such as OpenView, Micromuse, and Concord.

Specialized NMS systems designed by various equipment manufacturers for their own products provide comprehensive monitoring and configuration functions for their own products. They can monitor important performance indicators that cannot be monitored by common network management systems, there are also some unique configuration features. However, the devices produced by other companies are basically powerless. At present, the more popular equipment manufacturers of network management software Cisco-Works2000, NetSight, domestic Linkmanage, iManager.

Development Trend of Cabling Management Software

Intelligent wiring management software: the intelligent wiring management software is a network database that manages and connects PCs and network devices in real time. 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.

Wiring management software standardization: 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 management standard for telecommunications infrastructure of commercial buildings in the world.