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Certified Network Cabling Design Professional

With few exceptions, enterprises today rely on IT for the delivery of business-critical services – often directly to the end consumer. It is therefore vital that the mission-critical data centre is designed, maintained and operated with high-availability and efficiency in mind. Among all the facilities, network cabling is the foundation for the network and one of the major contributors to the availability of the data center.

CNCDP® is a 2-day course designed to expose participants to in-depth knowledge in designing and installing the data network cabling system which includes key subject matters such as; technical standards, designing of different cabling sub-systems, calculation of material requirements, architecture, installation, testing and acceptance.

Audience Profile

The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional, consultant and/or those who work in network cabling system design, implementation and operation.

Course Benefits

Understand the various standards for network cabling systems, the models and how to apply these to the network design.

Design the user cabling and patching system for commercial buildings.

Design the network cabling and patching system for data centres.

Design the backbones for commercial building and data centre

Select the proper cabling containment/ pathways for network installations.

Apply the correct installation practices and avoid common mistakes.

Understand the site inspection and testing for copper and fibre systems
Understand the importance of User Acceptance and Warranty Program
Understand the tasks of the daily operations
Understand other cabling related considerations such as PoE and industrial cablings
Select the correct cabling manufacturer

Course Syllabus

Brief history of SCS

Basic copper and fibre transmission

Copper and fibre cabling

Single and multimode fibre

Step/graded index multimode fibre

Difference between Commercial Wiring and data centre cabling

Development of standards

Role of standards

ANSI/TIA 568 standard

Common standards

The new usage of cabling to support Smart building

Standard diagram recap: ANSI/TIA-568

Functional elements and example

Scenario A: Determine the number of work areas

Scenario B: Determine the number of user locations

Zone wiring

Administration: Interconnect and cross-connect

Angled and flat panels

Creating a cabling schematic design

Convert schematic into physical layout

Calculating the material list

Standard diagram recap: TIA-942

Basic/Reduced/Typical data centre setup

Traditional 3 layers network design/ Spine and Leaf network design

Select termination hardware

Administration design

ToR/EoR/Spine & Leaf cabling design

Network and cabling resiliency

Create cabling schematic design for ToR/EoR

Convert into patch panel/rack layout

Calculate the material list for ToR/EoR

Backbone diagram

Calculate the copper backbone requirements per Telecom Room (TR)

Calculate the fibre backbone requirements per Telecom Room

Summarize the building backbone requirements

Recognised cables

Backbone Patch panels

The maximum backbone distances

Create cabling schematic design

Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout

TIA-942 based backbone topology

TIA-942 backbone requirements

Recognised backbone cable

ToR/EoR/Spine and Leaf

Backbone distance estimation

Resiliency of backbone cable routes

Creating cabling schematic design

Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout

Field and Fusion Termination for fibre connectors

Pre-terminated fibre trunk and copper cables 

ANSI/TIA569-D Cable pathway and spaces

Common requirements for the rooms

Definition of the rooms

Entrance Room/Demarcation

Ceiling and floor pathways types

Cable trays/basket/ladder/conduit

Inner duct/sleeve/slot

Calculating of pathway size

Cable run best practices

Cable management/AIM

Grounding and bonding

Separation distance requirements for copper cabling to power cabling

Fire stopping

Fire rated barrier

Fire rated jacket cable

Common campus cable installation and cable types : Aerial cable / Direct-buried / Underground in-conduit

Outdoor cable installation planning

Lightning / surge protection

Approved ground for surge protector

Creating a schematic diagram

Converting a schematic into a physical layout

Visual site inspection notes

Installation common issues

Copper testing standard

Permanent link / Channel / Patch cord / MPTL testing configuration

Fibre connectors

Fibre testing standard

Tier 1 & 2 certification

Fibre link definition

Fibre testing steps

Fibre inspection and cleaning

Calibrating the test sets - 3 methods

Setting up mandrel for testing

Fibre loss budget calculation

G.657 Bend insensitive fibre

Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)

User acceptance general procedure
Basic documentation – Commercial Building
Basic documentation – Data Centre
Basic documentation – Testing Reports
Patching records (database)
Sample testing
Operation training
Warranty program from cabling manufacturer

Main tasks in cabling daily operations
The cabling administration standard
Typical model for ANSI/TIA-606
Common causes of cable mess
Good cable management
Examples of labels
Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM)

PoE+ and PoE++

PoE+ and PoE++ requirements on cabling

PoE+ and PoE++ arc effect on RJ45 jack

Fibre + copper cabling

Industrial cabling environment

Cabling in industrial use

Always use the latest standard cabling

The importance of end-to-end solution

Third-party testing certicates

Special design features/ functions

Good local support partner/ contractor

Cabling highlights on ANSI/TIA-942-C

Micro edge data center (EDC) denition

Micro edge data center cabling

Exam

The exam is a 60-minute closed book exam, with 40 multiple-choice questions. The candidate requires a minimum of 27 correct answers to pass the exam.

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