TEXPO

Cabling Pathways and Racks Infrastructure Assessment

In today’s world of specialization and complexity, you need a trusted partner to work with you to eliminate risks and drive improved performance. TEXPO Professional Services now fills that role by providing a full range of physical layer services based on Panduit’s Unified Physical Infrastructure SM (UPI) approach. These services help you assess, design, and maintain resilient, sustainable solutions for your physical infrastructure.

The trend towards increased density of servers and storage equipment and higher capacity switches means that efficient management of cabling, pathways, and racks is essential for a reliable, scalable, and flexible data centre. The TEXPO Cabling, Pathways, and Racks Infrastructure Assessment provides an evaluation of your facility’s Layer 1 physical infrastructure, taking into account your current needs and future requirements, such as High-Speed Data Transport, Virtualization, or Consolidated I/O. We recommend sustainable, long-term solutions that take a holistic approach, fully integrating the Layer 1 physical infrastructure with Layer 2 and Layer 3 logical network architecture.

Features	Benefits
Professional assessment of current data centre cabling, pathway, and rack infrastructure	Identifies potential problem areas in installation techniques, deployment practices, cable types, and data transmission requirements
Detailed infrastructure assessment report and findings	Provides a comprehensive overview of your Layer 1 physical infrastructure and an evaluation of your compliance with industry standards and ability to support your current and future network requirements
Optimization recommendations, upgrade plans, and remediation strategies	Assures that a proven plan is in place to manage your cabling infrastructure; minimizes downtime and the impact of Moves, Adds, and Changes (MACs); reduces implementation time and risk, and assesses the effects of changes to the existing environment and architecture

TEXPO will provide you the following services under this assessment

Data Centre Cabling, Pathways, and Rack Infrastructure Assessment

• Evaluate facility layout and all current physical infrastructure components
• Review overall installation of cabling, pathways, and racks and assess conformance to industry standards
• Inspect overall quality and state of cabling installation, terminations, routing, bundling, dressing, and cable management
• Evaluate cabling infrastructure and pathway impact on airflow, cooling, and air handling spaces
• Survey permanent link cables, patch cords, patch panels, and enclosures for proper identification and labelling
• Assess pathways cable carry capacity, ability to minimize cable length, proper bend radius control, and ability to support future growth
• Identify and assess cabling transitions from pathways to racks, cabinets, and patch fields
• Assess utilization of space in cabinets and racks, and recommend density and performance improvements
• Identify and assess cabinet power capacity, rack-level power distribution, and future growth options
• Assess the adequacy of racking system structure and layout, including horizontal and vertical cable management
• Identify areas of concern such as obstacles, choke points, and violations of standards
• Identify expansion plans and their impact on current infrastructure, planned equipment replacement, and network upgrades
• Evaluate the aesthetics of the data centre and recommend improvements to meet client objectives

Assessment Report / Recommendation

• Generate a formal assessment report based on the site survey that includes commentary on the current state of the Layer 1 physical infrastructure
• Summarize findings, submit observations on the current state, and provide recommendations for future state and best practices to achieve optimum performance

Recommendations for Best Practice Installation Advice

• Assessment of the current infrastructure’s capability to support high speed data transport protocols
• Assessment of the current infrastructure’s capability to support additional equipment and cabling requirements
• Recommendations of data centre physical infrastructure best practices