Cabling
Fibre
Fibre cabling has traditionally been considered only for backbone connectivity but with higher bandwidth requirements continually increasing the cost of copper cabling, fibre is quickly becoming a cost effective horizontal cabling medium.
In both cabling and backbone scenarios however, the different standards for design and fibre components have given incredible scope for corporate infrastructures but unfortunately, with scope comes the need for guidance.
Some of the considerations that Accent will make are the bandwidth required, the type of fibre, fibre connections and the existing fibre installed. Unlike cabling systems, if increasingly popular applications such as gigabit Ethernet are to be used, distance limitations will be accrued resulting in decisions needing to be made on grades of fibre (e.g. single-mode, optical multimode etc).
Accent recognise that customers seek a high return on investment when it comes to network installations and will subsequently qualify existing installations to ensure that any possible migration from legacy fibre is achieved. If new fibre does need to be laid then future requirements such as bandwidth intensive 10 Gigabit Ethernet applications will be considered in every design.