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> While I too love to see good cable layout, whenever you see a “thousand” Ethernet cables in one run, a foundational mistake has been made. How about in large
by oasisbob 4y ago
> While I too love to see good cable layout, whenever you see a “thousand” Ethernet cables in one run, a foundational mistake has been made.
How about in large campus environments with extensive copper plants?
Bundles arriving into an IDF for Ethernet/POTS serving several hundreds of pairs of eyeballs get big fast. Trunking doesn't save you here.
- kazen44 4y agoAnother example. Residential fiber networks can get messy very quickly, especially if its all based on AON instead of GPON, and requires a point to point connection between a customer's edge location and a site end location. Add in (older) coaxial networks in to the mix aswell, and you end up with thousands of bundles of fiber for even small towns. Also, keeping all that organised requires rigerious discipline and maintenance to keep it all tidy and neat.
- oasisbob 4y agoThat's a good one. One of my favorite cautionary stories is of the telco which, for cost-savings reasons, deferred drops and cleanup across their entire plant. As the story goes, digging out of it was horrible, expensive, and epic. Not hard to imagine why.