Reflections on smart hot cabling systems

The Integrated Wiring System is an industry that can be learned in five hours and cannot be completed in five years. In summary, there are two major parts: wire and wiring equipment. Integrated Wiring System products have emerged one after another. Since entering China for more than 15 years, various manufacturers have never stopped making great strides. No matter how many patent achievements are presented, they have all achieved Characteristics on a single product. The emergence of the electronic distribution frame system is a huge step.

Before presenting their own electronic distribution frame system, many manufacturers always throw a picture of the disorganized jumper between cabinets. With the electronic distribution frame, everything is uniform. This seems to be the deepest impression of the masses on the electronic distribution frame: with it, the Integrated Wiring System can be intelligent and easy to manage.

The simplest Integrated Wiring System is to connect directly to the switch port with a single line. With the increasing scale of information points, TIA and IEC, as well as national standards organizations, have successively issued engineering design and management specifications for integrated wiring systems. EIA/TIA-606 is a milestone, which first proposed the identification, marking and recording of wiring elements. The birth of the electronic distribution frame system does not mean to get rid of these requirements. The core of the Integrated Wiring System is the cable. It must fulfill its basic mission: to connect the cable.

So what is the major stride of the electronic distribution frame system? The electronic distribution frame system includes hardware and software. Is software used to record cabling elements? I think it is not. There are two types of management software for the Integrated Wiring System: offline and online. The former is based on a common distribution frame, and the latter is based on an electronic distribution frame. Both types of software have a basic function: Reproduce the elements of the integrated wiring system, replacing paper and pen, software can be used to define buildings, single buildings, weak current wells, floors, rooms, management rooms, cabinets, distribution racks, switches, etc., to build a system topology and replace traditional document records, quickly add, delete, or change information points or ports. A graphical management platform is provided for administrators.

Where did the electronic distribution frame system work? The following is a comparison between the electronic distribution frame system and the general distribution system:

From this figure, I have summarized the common features of the two systems:

1) reproduce the wiring elements and topology of the Integrated Wiring System to efficiently and quickly establish system data.

2) information points and port connections can be added, deleted, and modified to facilitate management and maintenance.

3) Graphical cabinet equipment management, intuitive and clear.

4) as software, it can provide clients or WEB users with different management methods and secure user management functions.

Compared with the former, the smart wiring management system based on the electronic distribution frame highlights two advantages:

Real-time Monitoring: it can monitor and manage the complete information of all disconnected links, including the disconnected status and time, and can accurately locate the disconnected Port location to facilitate on-site operations; monitors the increase, movement, and change of system ports in real time. Of course, the cost of implementing this function is to configure Additional monitors and Information Processing hosts in addition to the distribution frame on the hardware investment.

Network Function: After an information processing host supports SNMP through embedded development, it can be closely connected to the Internet with an IP address. The subsequent functions are even richer: unauthorized operations can be controlled and discovered; port applications can be monitored to avoid port waste and effective management of customer assets; monitors the running status of all ports, including wiring and network switching in real time, generates printed reports automatically for convenient review, and can query upper-layer information IP addresses and MAC addresses), and locates devices, IT is also connected to the physical port location. IT can remotely control and manage the entire system, which is very convenient for IT staff in other places and on business trips. for companies with multiple branches, it is easier to manage data in different locations.

The electronic distribution frame system provides great convenience for the management of the wiring system, but this does not mean that management is unnecessary. Whether IT is a high-throughput routing switching device or a high-processing-speed computing device, IT is used for our work and generation through the Basic settings and maintenance of IT personnel. Similarly, the core of the management of the electronic distribution frame system is still people!

Looking back at the current industry, there are two ways to implement the electronic distribution frame system:

Patch Cord Detection: the detection line runs through the entire patch cord, regardless of where the patch cord is broken, cut, or dropped), will cause a system alarm.

Port Detection: the detection component is installed in the RJ45 module. When the crystal head of the Jumper is inserted into the module, the detection component is turned on. The system knows that the crystal head of the Jumper has been inserted.

Although the electronic distribution frame system has network functions, it will not surpass or replace network management software in this field. It guarantees the reliability and stability of the physical layer. To this end, dulle also launched the patch cord detection-based intelligent wiring system Unilan View.

Of course, the pace of the electronic distribution frame system will never stop at the moment, it will become more in line with market needs.

1. Lay a solid foundation for network transmission: intelligent Cabling System
2. Design and Implementation of Integrated Wiring System