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Sample Photos—Wiring Closet, Before and After

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Many facilities have one or more auxiliary “wiring closets” in addition to the central hub, the computer/communications Room. Each of these auxiliary connection points serves as a “sub-hub” for an area or floor of the building that is at some distance (typically 100 meters or more) from the primary hub. A typical sub-hub is configured as follows:

In the example shown the auxiliary patch bay is located in a factory room, not a closet, referred to as the “maintenance room.“ This is the critical central connection point for all of the factory's computer-controlled presses, which churn out plastic product parts in three shifts around the clock. Any faults must be quickly isolated to avoid costly production downtime.


BEFORE

  • A jumble of patch cords impossible to trace due to the tangle of excess lengths and random colors.
  • Multiple switches, all low speed and non-managed with a copper backbone prone to interference and distance issues.

AFTER

We replaced the multiple older switches with two new high speed, remote management switches that offer significant advantages in addition to the faster port speeds, including:

  • We could then install a fiber optic backbone to improve throughput and reliability over the long distance to the central computer/communications room, with immunity to the high electromagnetic interference (EMI) from factory machines and other fixtures.
  • We can now upgrade, configure, and diagnose the switches over the Internet, including all-important detection and location of shorts or opens in the twisted-pair connections to the presses.
  • We also provided shorter patch cords with a color code plan and accompanying wall chart for rapid fault isolation.
Photo of relay rack with old switches and jumble of patch cords.Photo of relay rack with new switches and color-coded patch cords
Photo of smiling client holding out a jumple of discarded patch cords.

Happy customer holds discarded rat’s nest of cables.

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