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 lay-out
• 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 and 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

• 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/TIA-569-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 pathway size
• Cable run best practices
• 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 testing standard
• Tier 1 & 2 certification
• Fibre connectors
• Fibre link definition
• Fibre testing steps
• Fibre inspection and cleaning
• Calibrating the test sets – 3 methods
• Setting up mandrel for testing
• OM3/4/5 fibre testing
• Encircled Flux
• Fibre loss budget calculation
• 657 Bend insensitive fibre
• Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)

User Acceptance and Warranty Program

• User acceptance general procedure
• Basic documentation – Commercial Building
• Basic documentation – Data Centre
• Basic documentation – Testing Reports
• Patching records (database)
• Sample testing
• Operation training
• Warranty program from cabling manufacturer

Daily Operations

• Main tasks in cabling daily operations
• The cabling administration standard
• Typical model for ANSI/TIA-606
• Common causes of cable mess
• Good cable management
• Examples of labels
• Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM)