Traditional distribution frame and Electronic Smart Distribution Frame

As the number of network applications increases, the amount of data to be processed increases, and the number of devices required for data centers increases. However, the area of the data center is fixed. As the number of cables increases, many network administrators cannot cope with the dense cable racks and limited space in the data center. How can the data center be neatly organized and well-organized?

Disadvantages of traditional distribution frame

The original IDC cabling uses a traditional distribution frame. When we see complicated and chaotic data center structures and do not know where to start, it is imperative to replace the traditional distribution frame. Traditional distribution frames have many disadvantages, which are inconvenient to maintain and pose security risks. The following are some points:

Not intuitive. Most of the labels of the traditional distribution frame are paper-based, and the quality of the paper is uneven. Labels are hand-written and organic; they are color and black/white; you need to open the cabinet close to see clearly. If it takes a long time, the labels will become more difficult to identify due to the environmental reasons of the data center, such as human wear and air humidity, and cause a lot of inconvenience to the management personnel.

Inconvenient maintenance. All the distribution frame ports must be tagged, resulting in heavy workload. In addition, it is inconvenient to search for and change during maintenance. If you want to patch the cable, first check the document and find the Port location for the jumper, that is, a line and a column on the corresponding cabinet. In addition, labels and stickers are easy to drop, dirty, and old, which makes searching inconvenient and wastes a lot of time and manpower.

There are many security risks. The cables are complex and lack of planning. It is easy to block hot and cold channels, seriously affecting data center cooling and cooling. There is no safe and reliable implementation solution for cabling, which increases the possibility of failure and downtime.

As an ordinary Data Center Administrator, the above problems need to be solved in the face of the requirements for extended equipment update in the data center. Cabling is becoming an important infrastructure for enterprises. enterprises also put forward greater requirements and requirements for smart cabling systems for cabling management, it is hoped that the smart wiring system can ensure the security of enterprise information flow while reducing the cost of the company's hardware facilities.

Electronic Smart distribution frame + manual management

With the scale-up of cabling construction, more and more requirements for standardized Cabling Management are required, so some standards are introduced. Among them, the most famous is the American Association of Electronic Industry and the United States Communications Industry Association of commercial buildings telecommunications wiring standards, namely ANSl/EIA/TIA-568.

In order to meet the standards, the smart wiring management technology continues to develop, and the electronic distribution frame technology is gradually applied.

When updating equipment in the IDC room, we choose to use the smart wiring Management Technology of the electronic distribution frame. It has the following features and advantages:

Real-time -- avoid Management Time Delay

Logic-avoiding inefficient management

Centralized-avoid excessive investment in human resources

Security-Detects illegal device intrusion

The smart Wiring System of the electronic distribution frame associates the traditional wiring system with the smart management system, and automatically transmits the network connection architecture and its changes to the system management software through the smart Wiring System of the electronic distribution frame, the management system processes the received implementation information. You can view the latest structure of the cabling system at any time through the query management system. By managing all management elements electronically, you can achieve intuitive, real-time, and efficient paperless management.

With the smart cabling system of the electronic distribution frame, you can manage the data center with only a small amount of manual management. After redeployment, the Network cables in the IDC are neat, and data entry and modification only need to be performed on the computer and the database is refreshed, saving the Administrator a lot of tedious work and being more flexible.

Summary

The rapid development of information technology makes traditional distribution frames unable to cope with the problem. How to achieve low cost and efficient data center management is one of the important issues for enterprises. Using electronic intelligence + manual management of distribution frames not only makes cabling more neat and easy to manage, but also reduces security risks and increases efficiency while bringing economic benefits, higher security is achieved.