There are two common consequences of patch panel ports: not enough, and forced to temporarily fly lines; leaving too many, and gathering dust and eating into the budget. Redundancy should not be reserved based on intuition. Estimating the proportion according to the growth rate, managing the reserved ports, and replacing the stack ports with structures can keep the margin at controllable costs in three steps.

Determine the reservation ratio according to business growth rate

First, count the actual port utilization in the first year, and then evaluate the business growth rate in the next three years: 20% to 30% of reserved ports in general campus computer rooms is enough; incubation parks with clearly higher growth rates can be higher, but the excess should be solved by installing a second ODF instead of infinitely increasing the capacity of a single unit. The extreme density of 96 cores in 1U will leave very tight space for fiber disks and testing.

Reserved ports must also be manageable

Vacant ports should be covered with dust caps or false panels, and numbers should be assigned to reserved sections. Reserved areas should be drawn on the port comparison table, and activation conditions and approvers should be written down. Without this set of rules, the reserved ports would be filled up by all kinds of jumpers from unknown sources after three months, leaving them empty. SC dual-core scenario is availableSC-SC single mode single core jumperCombined with the adapter, the reserved section is enabled to avoid replacing the entire row of racks.

Replace heap ports with structures

When there are many buildings and mixed directions, instead of stacking ports in each weak current room, it is better to set up a secondary wiring area for centralized transfer. The large-core optical cable on the trunk side goes directly to the core ODF, and the access side is equipped with small racks according to the actual number of users. For the layering method of the park scene, please refer toCampus network and FTTH integrated cabling solution, scattered equipment on the cabinet side is available14-slot box transceiver rackGather them together to reduce passive port occupation.

If you are not sure about the reservation ratio, you can send the existing wiring list to EB-LINK technical support for evaluation, call 0755-83179002.