Designing an outside-plant facility: a good customer-owned OSP design depends on your knowledge of cable types, placement methods, and network topologies

摘要

Installers wiring buildings for voice, data, and video (V/D/V) can usually expect to "home-run" their cable runs, because a star-shaped wiring topology is the preferred infrastructure design for inside wiring. However, the requirements for customer-owned outside-plant (CO-OSP) network designs are much more varied than those for premises networks, so many more options than the home-run are available. The Second Edition of BICSI's Customer-Owned Outside Plant Design Mantel identifies the following concerns for CO-OSP network designers: · The characteristics of the cabling media to be pulled. · The methods by which the cabling media will be installed. · Restrictions resulting from the geography of the campus, along with the transmission requirements of the campus network.