PAIN POINTS

• Are you getting ready to migrate to a VoIP phone system but your cabling closet is a mess?
• Are you standardizing on new network electronics and need to swap out old electronics on your rack but can’t find your rack under all the cables?
• Is your closet an embarrassment and out of control?

While cabling infrastructure is very forgiving at slower network speeds, convergence technologies, including VoIP, are mandating migrations to newer electronics that place additional bandwidth and performance demands on the information.

The goals of this effort include the following:

1. To “simplify for improved usability”, for “increased (network) distribution efficiency”, and for “ease of maintenance”. To re-engineer (clean-up) the closets so that the technical infrastructure can easily, efficiently, and reliably support the entire facilities’ operation.
2. To increase IT staff efficiency when ‘patching’ changes are necessary. With an unstructured closet, (high-end) IT engineers can take hours to complete a single move, add, or change (MAC). Upon completion, these changes require only minutes.
3. To identify areas of nonconformity as it relates to current industry standards and guidelines, including fire codes.
4. To identify, optimize and improve on the overall network performance (when the network is being affected by poor quality cabling product and poor installation practices).