Things to be Kept in Mind While Designing Network Cabling Systems

Day by day communication is expanding in large volumes over networks. The backbone of the communication networks is the underlying communication channels. The communication channel is the medium through which the multimedia data are sent. Network cable is one of the major factors that pave the path of communication expansion. An important thing to be considered in installing and implementing network cables is its design strategy. The designing technique adopted for a network has great significance in the overall quality and the performance of the communication system.

Designing Techniques

The network cabling design techniques should be selected with proper care. Planning and pre- designing of the network cabling system will help you to foresee the network architecture and cabling layouts. Designing and installing communication cabling system that supports data, voice and video requires more time and effort because network cabling system should posses a long life. Choosing the best designing technique will help you to enhance the network standard. Various techniques are available nowadays.

Things to be kept in mind while designing a network cabling system

• The type of cabling should be selected wisely. Always try to choose the latest cables such as Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6 and Cat 7.
• Latest technological cabling techniques such as fast Ethernet, ATM, 100 Base-T, FDDI, TP-PMD, etc should be adopted.
• You should be aware of the specifications and the requirements for the various cables and cabling methods (such as UTP, STP, 10Base2, TP-PMD, Fast Ethernet and Fibre optic cables).
• Analyse and study the existing telecommunication system characteristics and requirements.
• Study about the limitation of the existing cabling and the network system.

Network Designing Methodologies

Initially we should learn how to design network cabling layouts that suits our requirements and how to use the available techniques.

Then we should consider the size of the communication network. Most of the organizations prefer to set up a small network with more features and resources. Small to Medium Sized businesses tend to establish a communication network of 100 to 500 employees with minimum cabling requirements and connections whereas large organizations may have networks with employees working in various branches in geographically distant locations. This needs to develop worldwide communication with thousands of uses.

Another thing to be noted is the framework of the network cabling and system you want to set up. There are some measures on which the network cabling and communication system should be build up on. They consist of communication network load, throughput, resource sharing capability, simultaneous bidirectional transmission of multimedia data, consistency and reliability of cabling, bandwidth utilization, latency and high security, etc.

Considering these things will help to you to design your network communication system and cabling structure more accurately and efficiently.