Office Networking Setup
The strength of a large enterprise is the way it communicates internally. To set up robust communication and ease of information exchange, the systems within an organisation need to be connected to each other. Subsequently, there has to be strong internet connectivity as working without a good internet speed would be no less making futile attempts to ignite the fire from pebbles as in the stone age.
It doesn’t matter where the connection has to be established - school, college or a service-based firm; the process is similar for all. Additionally, to keep an organisation up and running, the importance of good quality fiber optic connectors, fiber optic cables, rackmounts, fiber transceivers, patch panels and switches cannot be denied.
This piece of content is directed to the readers who wish to know more about what goes into developing a strong network of computers within an organisation and the steps associated with it. The basic idea is to get hold of some fiber optic cables that are insulated with some high-quality or material and then use them along with ports to connect all the systems.
Cable Termination
It is the first step to develop a robust network in an organisation. To execute this, one needs to get hold of a patch panel which can be thought of as a device that has several ports. It is responsible for connecting the incoming and outgoing data cables through it.
A fully loaded patch panel has several IOs. A fiber optic cable from a PC is terminated to one of the ports of a patch panel. Similarly, fiber optic ethernet cables from other computers in the organisation are terminated to the remaining ports of the patch panel.
We recommend making use of fiber cables by ATGBICS for they are affordable, have low maintenance and come with a lifelong replacement guarantee. The cable termination process is said to be completed when all direct attach cables from the PCs to be linked together are connected to the patch panel.
Port to Port connectivity
To develop a fully accessible LAN(Local Area Network), a connection has to be set up between the terminated patch panel and the network switch. A network switch is a kind of fibre transceiver and is the core element when it comes to developing a robust network among various systems. The fiber optic ethernet cables here are called patch cords that connect patch panels to switches. This entire phenomenon falls under ‘port to port connectivity’.
Basic networking is completed when this task is done. Post this, the information present in one of the computers can be accessed by others utilizing the IP address. This helps with effective communication and information exchange among the systems. This can alternatively be termed as an ethernet connection.
All PCs have a unique IP address and are connected to the patch panel and are further connected with a network switch which sets a base for the communication among all the computers.
Connectivity for internet
So far we have observed steps to form internal communication among the available systems of an organisation. The internet connectivity is still remaining. To activate internet and global data exchange over these inter-linked computers, a fiber optic cable is connected from the rack-mounted router of the Internet Service provider to the uplink port of the network switch or the internal fibre transceiver.
Post this task, the internet is activated in all the linked computer systems. Additionally, the organisation’s server is connected to the uplink port.
