Design and building a data centre should always be modeled around sustainability. While the latest technology and IT hardware may increase your operational speed and consistency, ensure that you are purchasing what you need as each network data centre is unique to each business’s data communication requirements and bandwidth needs.
Data centres are becoming goliaths in energy consumption. In Canada alone, network data centres consume about 7% of the total national electrical usage and are forecast to consume 21% of the Canadian total by the year 2020. Much of this power is required to run the electronics and building operations, while a sizable portion is dedicated to temperature control. IT hardware reliability is greatly reduced as temperatures rise.
To control temperature, many network data centers rely on a pattern of cold aisles for the hardware and hot aisles for under- floor cable routing and passive patching. Like convection current, cold air can be added and hot air removed in a controlled pattern, leading to greater efficiencies from the cooling equipment. Larger data centers provide up to 270% of the cooling needed by the equipment due to inefficient airflow management.
One of the most effective ways to counteract this waste of energy is by utilizing fibre optic structured cabling. Fibre Optic structured cabling will reduce the total volume of cable needed, which greatly reduces airflow congestion in cable passages. Structured cabling involves the use of backbone trunks that bring a large number of fibre optics to a section before breaking out into smaller segments at the electronics.
Poor quality cabling not only adds more cable mass, they also cause a problem with any moves, add-ons or changes. Removing a cable when it is in the cable tray with many other cables carrying live traffic is often like trying to diffuse a live bomb. Such tasks often create the risk of a disruption in traffic, which is why some operators simply pull in new cables on top of the old. This has the negative consequences of clogging up cable passages for greater airflow, effectively increasing the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning workload. Utilizing a backbone trunk provides a link that does not have to be disturbed. The configuration is done at a patching field close to the electronics.
High-count fibre optic cables have the benefit of a greater density than running multiples of 1 -fiber and 2-fiber cables. Traditional 2.9-mm cabling for SC optical-fiber connectors takes up seven times the space of a trunk-cable solution, and even the smaller density 1.6-mm diameter cables used with LC connections occupy twice the coverage area. Loose-tube cables provide the best density among today’s trunk-cable designs.
Spectrum Networks has been installing quality VoIP, fiber optic, network cabling, voice cabling and communication solutions for customers all over North America. Based in Vancouver, BC and with their certified staff, Spectrum is committed to providing speedy and reliable service with a keen attention to detail to all the projects they are involved with. For more information on Spectrum Networks please visit http://www.spectrumnetworks.ca.
Author: Pall Musaev
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Provided by: Cellphone news
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