Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology

Chapter 9. Network Cabling Infrastructure

“From chaos comes order.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche

The network cabling infrastructure consists of all the devices and cabling that must be configured for the data center to be connected to its networks, as well as the cabling required to connect one device to another within a configuration (for example, connecting disk devices to servers).

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Creating a Network Cabling Infrastructure”

• “Points of Distribution”

• “Avoiding Spaghetti”

• “Labeling and Color Coding”

• “Verification”