okay
so we've just talked about proper campus
network design
so if you believe what we were talking
about
from a campus network design perspective
this has huge implications
for how you do cabling on your campus
i've seen
so many instances where yeah you need
some cabling done and you just call your
favorite cabling contractor
and they'll come in and just run some
cabling for you
you haven't really told them exactly
what you want or how you want it done
and you end up with something that is
less than ideal and what we're going to
talk about in this section is
what should you be doing what kind of
cable should you be running
and how should it be run so this is a
discussion of structured cabling systems
and it's very important that you pay a
lot of attention to this
and that you don't just have a cabling
contractor that goes and does whatever
they want to do
as you look at a campus there's really
only two
types of cabling there's unshielded
twisted pair
and that provides service to individual
computers and between network racks
and you have fiber optic cabling this is
going to provide service between
buildings from your core location to
each building
and possibly between network racks
everything is run in this hub and spoke
or star configuration so you know you're
going to have a network rack that you
run
cat 5e or cat 6 cable out to individual
station outlets that are in people's
offices
or to access points or to classrooms
you're going to have from your core
location you're from your central
location you're going to run
fiber optic cable to each building right
very simple
simple simple concepts well
it isn't quite that simple so let's look
at each one of these types of cabling in
a little bit more detail.
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