the top half of the rack, the servers at the bottom half, so to connect a server to a network board requires a single cable. You are not constantly taking the floor up to run cables in all the time, as you used to do, and it does not require as skilled a person to do the job. It also improves security because you can lock the cabinets and leave them like that. The only time you would need to go back into cabinets would be in times of failure. “Redundancy is another important
feature. Two cable routes are used, a yellow route and a blue route, to connect to a server, which do not cross anywhere. So as well as having backup in power, and in server capability, we also have backup in the physical connectivity.
Fujitsu was also involved in the overall
data centre project. Its Infrastructure Cabling Services operation was responsible for designing the BT Data Centres and worked with the enclosures solutions provider on the new frame. Alan Bird, Fujitsu Senior Technical Consultant for Cabling, explained: “We were implementing central patching systems for BT, both Class EA and OM3 fibre. BT wanted an alternative source for its copper and fibre frames so we worked with Brand-Rex to develop the high density cabinet designed to take angled copper panels. The aim was then to go on and develop the same thing for fibre. “We put a lot of emphasis on the cable management aspect, because we
knew people would be putting 500-600 cables into a single cabinet, with 1000 duplex ports on one cabinet face. It was also important to cater for both the installer and especially the end user. I used to be a data centre manager so I know from experience what happens if you don’t make life easy for the end user – you end up with a mess! “The result is a high density, cabling
solution that gives BT Operate a patching backbone at the heart of its data centres. It means you can connect any piece of equipment to any other just by doing a patch. It has become a core element in their approach to the cabling of their data centres.”
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