Target group
The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional, consultant and/or those who work in network cabling system design, implementation and operation.
Course structure
After completion of the course the participant will be able to:
- Understand the various standards for network cabling systems, the models and how to apply these to the network design.
- Design the user cabling and patching system for commercial buildings.
- Design the network cabling and patching system for data centres.
- Design the backbones for both indoor and outdoor cabling.
- Select the proper cabling containment/ pathways for network installations.
- Apply the correct installation practices and avoid common mistakes.
- Define the right testing criteria and methods for copper and fiber systems
Introduction to Structured Cabling System (SCS)
- Brief history of SCS
- Basic copper and fibre transmission
- Copper and fibre cabling
- Single and multimode fibre
- Step/graded index multimode fibre
- Difference between Commercial Wiring and data centre cabling
- Development of standards
- Role of standards
- ANSI/TIA 568 standard
- Common standards
- The new usage of cabling to support Smart building
Horizontal and Administration – Commercial Building
- Standard diagram recap: ANSI/TIA-568
- Functional elements and example
- Scenario A: Determine the number of work areas
- Scenario B: Determine the number of user locations
- Zone wiring
- Administration: Interconnect and cross-connect
- Angled and flat panels
- Creating a cabling schematic design
- Convert schematic into physical layout
- Calculating the material list
Horizontal and Administration – Data Centre
- Standard diagram recap: TIA-942
- Basic/Reduced/Typical data centre setup
- Traditional 3 layers network design/ Spine and Leaf network design
- Select termination hardware
- Administration design
- ToR/EoR/Spine & Leaf cabling design
- Network and cabling resiliency
- Create cabling schematic design for ToR/EoR
- Convert into patch panel/rack layout
- Calculate the material list for ToR/EoR
Building Backbone – Commercial Building
- Backbone diagram
- Calculate the copper backbone requirements per Telecom Room (TR)
- Calculate the fibre backbone requirements per Telecom Room
- Summarize the building backbone requirements
- Recognised cables
- Backbone Patch panels
- The maximum backbone distances
- Create cabling schematic design
- Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout
Building Backbone – Data Centre
- TIA-942 based backbone topology
- TIA-942 backbone requirements
- Recognised backbone cable
- ToR/EoR/Spine and Leaf
- Backbone distance estimation
- Resiliency of backbone cable routes
- Creating cabling schematic design
- Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout
- Field and Fusion Termination for fibre connectors
- Pre-terminated fibre trunk and copper cables
Architectural Considerations
- ANSI/TIA569-D Cable pathway and spaces
- Common requirements for the rooms
- Definition of the rooms
- Entrance Room/Demarcation
- Ceiling and floor pathways types
- Cable trays/basket/ladder/conduit
- Inner duct/sleeve/slot
- Calculating of pathway size
- Cable run best practices
- Cable management/AIM
- Grounding and bonding
- Separation distance requirements for copper cabling to power cabling
- Fire stopping
- Fire rated barrier
- Fire rated jacket cable
Campus / Outdoor Backbone
- Common campus cable installation and cable types : Aerial cable / Direct-buried / Underground in-conduit
- Outdoor cable installation planning
- Lightning / surge protection
- Approved ground for surge protector
- Creating a schematic diagram
- Converting a schematic into a physical layout
Site Inspection and Testing
- Visual site inspection notes
- Installation common issues
- Copper testing standard
- Permanent link / Channel / Patch cord / MPTL testing configuration
- Fibre connectors
- Fibre testing standard
- Tier 1 & 2 certification
- Fibre link definition
- Fibre testing steps
- Fibre inspection and cleaning
- Calibrating the test sets – 3 methods
- Setting up mandrel for testing
- Fibre loss budget calculation
- G.657 Bend insensitive fibre
- Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)
