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The most thorough testing for network cabling is certification. Certification proves that a cabling system adheres to rigor­ous requirements for overall performance and installation workmanship. Cable certification demands trained technicians and specialized test gear referred to as cable analyzers. Cabling has been known to result in as numerous as half of all network failures.

1. Certifying is Significantly less Expensive than Repair

Without certification, repairs need to be produced on a live network or worse, on a network suffering an outage.Network downtime extracts a painful value in lost revenue, lost productivity, diminished customer support and competitive disadvantage. The Gartner, Inc. estimated that an hour of down­time fees a bone-chilling $42,000 per hour, on typical.

Contrast this to the cost of certification. A network with 600 Cat six copper lines undergoes certification testing. A realistic assumption is that 5% of the links fail the initial test and need to be repaired and retested. Making use of a contemporary cable certifier the entire procedure will take approximately 11 man-hours. At a commercial price of $65 per hour, the expense is significantly less than $750.

2. Solution Warranties Are Limited

A network owner might be tempted to roll the dice in hard times and use a manufacturer's warranty as a security blanket. The quality of a cable installation lies largely in the hands of the installers. If installation craftsmanship is poor, even ex­cellent products fail. The failures and the attendant hardships are outdoors the scope of a hardware warranty.

3. Certification and Recertification Will Future Proof the Infrastructure

You could think that a cable build-out "does what it does" when installed, and by no means does a lot more. This could be short-sighted. A Category six copper cable was created to support 1-Gigabit per second data rate. Recent field certification tests indicate that a excellent deal of the Cat 6 cable employed in datacenters complies with the 10GBASE-T stan­dard and can help 10-Gigabit service over short to moderate distances. If you recertify the Cat 6 cable in your datacen­ter, you might locate an efficient path to a 10X throughput.

4. Uncertified Cabling = Stranded Capital

When a new occupant enters a building, the state of its cabling presents a series of concerns. A new tenant may view the mass of copper and/or fiber as a mystery, not an asset. Certifying 200 lines of cabling will price less than $500 at most commercial prices. Installing 200 new lines of new Cat six cable will cost $5,000-$10,000. Certification is life extension for a cable plant. Lack of certification turns legacy cabling into stranded capital.

5. Lowering Waste is Great Policy

The National Electrical Code (NEC 2002) demands the removal of abandoned cable that's not identified for future use. Without certification, legacy cable might well include the cost of removal, the expense of recycling and/or the envi­ronmental effect of disposal. It's sound enterprise policy to maximize use of existing copper and fiber cable. When properly maintained it has a lengthy lifespan.

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