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Structured Cabling and Infrastructure
What really supports your Communication System?
Building a network design that will support your company both now and in the future is crucial to stay competitive in today's data driven world. Although the structured cabling system accounts for a relatively modest amount of your network's overall investment, it can account for close to 80% of your network efficiency. It serves as the foundation for all organizations.
Debliak is a provider of structured cabling and can assist you in designing and implementing a system that is tailored to deliver dependable communications regardless of the applications the future may bring. Your wired and wireless networks will be supported by a structured cabling infrastructure, which will give you a flexible expansion model and a way to incorporate the IoT, smart buildings, and data transformation technologies that are continuously growing.
Whether you’re building a new location or want to upgrade your existing infrastructure, bring smart office technology with you.
Important design considerations
Cabling lifespans
Plan on a life span of 10–20 years, with 10 years being the minimum, and 15 years being typical. While the cabling itself represents only about 5% of the total network budget, it is also the most difficult and expensive part of the network to replace, requiring extensive labor and major workplace disruption. Your cabling system should have the longest life cycle of any component in your network.
You can expect to replace network electronics at least two to three times over the lifespan of your cabling infrastructure. Electronics have an average lifespan of five years.
Location and number of users
How many users do you now have, and how many do you want to add in the next ten years?
Where are users and how far are they from network switches?
Centrally located cabling?
Zone cabling?
Your choice of cabling may also be influenced by your architecture.
Media
What media will you use? Fiber, copper, or both? The types and mixtures of cable you choose will depend on the applications, architecture, environment, and more. Carefully consider any trade-offs of price for performance. The lowest-cost cable may not be the most economical long-term choice, particularly as you migrate to 40-/100-Gbps in the future. Labor is the most expensive part of installing new cable, so choose the best grade cable you can that will serve you for years to come as your organization grows.
Wireless
Plan for complete coverage with as much bandwidth as possible. The world is quickly moving towards wireless devices such as laptops, tablets and cellphones. PCs and workstations are becoming old news.
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
Honestly, if you can get a device that's PoE over one that isn't, chose PoE. It is 1 less cable you will need to see. Devices such as security cameras, alarms, and locks, PoE solve the problem of no power availability.
Documentation
Proper documentation, diagrams, labeling, color coding, and other administrative duties. Doing it
right in the beginning will make your life so much easier in the future.