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| | "Most of us have heard of the three R's: reduce, reuse and recycle. But how would this apply to telecommunications cabling infrastructure?" This comes from a great article, "A Sustainable Competitive Advantage" in the BICSI news. Do you currently use "The 3 R's" and if so, how? Does this methodology help with your Green Building projects? Kevin J
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| Let's follow this sustainable concept and bring into play the first of these three.
Reduce:
I'm not an advocate for reducing the cabling due to the nature of the business. It is however a concept we need to explore for green building and sustainability. Question: How can we apply this to telecommunications cabling infrastructure? Any thoughts? What about the density at each TO? (less is more)
This is simply to activate all ports. How many times or how many open ports have you seen on a faceplate cover? With this on the table let's compare others. Are there any open electrical outlets? If so, how many? Is there a benefit to activating 1 or 2 ports at each location? Are there others?
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| | There should be no spare active ports at the face plate. It is a major security risk to the network. There are ways to prevent that risk, i.e. MAC lockdown, which would then allow you to activate the ports. Cabling by its nature is permenant (as permenant as permenant can be). My company allows on average four outlets per bottom on seat. This allows for flexibility in not only funtional change of personell but also technology changes, e.g. POE+ may bring about the use of the TO to power a Montor, thin client, phone, small printer, for use of all those four outlets. I would as a company, only install the amount of active equipment needed, but allow space for additional to meet the needs of the site. Active equipment can be installed reletively easily (sometimes), where as cabling installation impacts more on the business. |
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| | I'm tweeting the BICSI Spring Conderence in Baltimore, MD -- check it out :::@ITSProfessional::: Augusto Paiva speaking about the "3 R's" -- General Session
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