Most major network suppliers including Cisco and HP have taken up the concept of the Software-Defined Network (“SDN”), intending to move to a full-blown Intent-Based Network (“IBN”) in the future. Simply put, an SDN reduces the capital and operational costs of network infrastructure by automating the basic configuration and management of the network. This moves […]

The worst nightmare of network support are intermittent or transient network cabling faults.  They take up a lot of time to find and correct and are often only a simple cabling error.  Copper ethernet data cabling also deteriorates and old network cabling can produce mysterious errors from time to time. Here are five tips to […]

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 […]

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 […]