Data Center

1. What is a data center?

In 1946, at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, John von Neumann designed the first general-purpose computer for mankind. It occupies an area of 170 square meters, which is only the size of a device. Since then, mankind has opened the door to general-purpose computing. With the wave of Internet informatization, the world has explored and developed more computer equipment. So many devices need to be centrally managed, so people have issued and revised the data center construction standards, which clearly state that the data center is a place where the equipment of the electronic information system is operated.

2.The data center cabling products and solutions provided by SOCT have laid a solid foundation for the steady development of network information transmission.

SOCT strictly implements the data center cabling standards. The data center cabling area is mainly composed of the incoming line room, the main distribution area, the intermediate distribution area, the regional distribution area, the horizontal distribution area, and the equipment distribution area. The cabling system is divided into the main wiring system and the horizontal wiring system. SOCT provides 12-144 fiber core pre-Terminated trunk cable for the entire data center cabling system. In the horizontal cabling system, multi-core bundled optical cables are pre-terminated, as well as shielded and unshielded network cable cabling products such as Category 8 and Category 6A.  In addition, patch cord in the format of fiber optic wiring system, such as MPO, LC, etc., are provided for transfer and jumpering in various wiring areas.

3.How to Connect MPO Patch Cords from 10G to 40G Network in a Data Center?

Use 4 LC-LC jumpers to connect 4 10G SFP+ optical modules at one end

Use 12-core MPO jumpers to connect 40G optical modules at one end

Use high-density fiber optic boxes and pre-terminated module boxes in the middle to meet the transmission requirements of 10G to 40G

4.How to Deploy Cabling for a 400G Data Center?

• Solution 1: 400G-DR4 to 4x100G-DR

The QSFP optical module is connected to the LC jumper, and connected to one end of the MTP trunk optical cable through the MTP to LC module of the high-density patch panel, and the other end of the MTP trunk optical cable is connected to the QSFP-DD module connected to the 8-core MTP jumper through the MTP adapter panel of the high-density patch panel.

• Solution 2: 400G-SR8 to 2x200G-SR4

Connection between QSFP-DD module and QSFP28 module, deploy an MTP-MTP pre-terminated trunk cable between the two switches.

Deploy 8-core MTP fiber patch cord on the 200G switch side.

Deploy MTP16-core to 2X8-core branch patch cord on the 400G switch side to connect the QSFP-DD module

Deploy high-density fiber distribution box between pre-terminated trunk cable and fiber patch cord, and manage with MTP adapter