The world of IT cabling has changed dramatically over the years from the early vendor specific cabling methods to today’s Structured Cabling environments.  It used to be only copper, then came various varieties of fibre optic cables, and WiFi, wireless and laser and free-space optical connectivity among others.  Even copper as a structured cabling component […]

The network world is constantly changing.  Hardware developments bring developments in software, which in turn bring further advances in hardware and so-on.  Similarly, the complexity of networks has increased.  The core, distribution, access layers model is giving way to Spine and Leaf, and Software Defined Network Access (“SDNA”) is redefining the way we configure and […]

On the face of it, data cable installation is not a difficult job. The designers give you a map of the cable runs, specifies the cables that are to be used in the data runs and the associated trays and so‑on, and how they are to be terminated at both ends.   In a Structured Cabling […]

Back in the day, to most people debug meant identifying and sorting out the errors in a bit of programming code. Nowadays, it’s a good bit more than that.  The effective functioning of the data centre according to accepted standards is crucial to the business. Most businesses spend time and effort gathering information and statistics […]

Networks are the foundation of all things in IT.  According to one pundit, “If information is the lifeblood of an organisation, then the physical network is the veins and arteries through which it flows”. The concept is very simple.  Connect devices and route information between them. Today, network cabling methods are those of ethernet cabling, […]