Are you tracking your passive IT infrastructure assets? Comprehensive IT infrastructure management includes tracking both the active and passive* components. Active equipment, from a documentation standpoint, is much more likely to already be tracked within an organization’s property system. Active devices are typically much more expensive, and as such are afforded a spotlight in most IT asset …
Say you need to go and investigate a switch port with a connection issue in a Telecommunications Room and you are told the cable is labelled with far-end termination details. (Hopefully!) When you arrive at the switch, it’s no surprise that the label has slipped into the veritable rats nest of cables, or even worse, …
It’s been documented that “…nearly 70 percent of all network-related problems can be traced to either poor cabling installation or problems with the cabling components. The likelihood for live cabling and components to sustain damage is high as cable technicians gradually enforce the National Electric Code’s declaration to have abandoned cables removed. And even in …