Accommodating Telecom Variety

摘要

IN OCTOBER 2020,I discussed data centers in smart buildings and how it could affect the building design, especially when considering the needs of power-user tenants. I briefly mentioned communications services entrance facilities for the building, but they are important enough to take a closer look at their design requirements. In doing some online research, I discovered many facility planning documents that were more than a bit out of date. Many are from the era when an entrance facility was a location where large pair-count copper cables came into the building and were connected to wires for plain old telephone service around the building using giant punchdown blocks on a plywood board mounted on the wall. That made me wonder if the documents also called for hitching posts out front for horses!