Value Engineering Methodologies applied to Structured Cabling Systems

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Value Engineering Methodologiesapplied
toStructured Cabling Systems ICT Rooms- or
HOT tips on how to reduce the cost of quality by
30

• John Laban RCDD Chris Miller
• SOCTIM Conference Brighton
• 17 October 2005

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What's important ?

• The single most important challenge facing
  managers today is having to do more with less

survey result London Business School
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Teaching bridge designor where the UK ICT
industry is today

• If a bridge designer is educated and certified by
  a concrete manufacturer then the bridge will be
  made predominately from
• Steel ? Stone ? Concrete ?
• Will this bridge be the optimal design solution ?
• What will it look like?

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A concrete bridge !!!!

• 4,000,000 cubic metres of concrete
• Optimal volume of concrete keeps manufacturer
  happy
• Unnecessary cost for end user
• Wasteful and unsustainable
• And its not GREEN

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Vendor independent design education
professional certification

• Results in Optimal
• economy
• form
• function
• value
• Beauty
• ............................................gt
• I couldnt find a GREEN one

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Bridges Cabling

• Bridges
• are vehicle animal transport systems
• only certified professionals design bridges
• Structured Cabling Systems (SCS)
• are Information Transport Systems
• only certified professionals should design SCSs
• my dream

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Education Skills

• Education - first
• vendor independent certification is education
• education provides a firm foundation
• forms the basis for professionalism
• Skills - second
• must follow on from education
• vendor certification is skills training
• builds upon a foundation of education

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What's the goal ?
global best practice
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Densification of ICT equipmentHOT tips- or
how not to get roasted

• Chris Miller
• Future-Tech
• cmiller_at_future-tech.co.uk
• 07786 433212

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Today's leading edgebut your tomorrow

• 200 Blade servers in a single cabinet
• 16 blade servers per 3U of cabinet space
• LAN Ethernet switches
• LAN switches with over 1,000 ports
• two 6kW power supplies in a core switch
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches
• supplies additional 20W per port
• all user drops live

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Power issues

• Standard 16 kW high density cabinet
• equivalent to 4 conventional ovens
• Can reach 30 kW in a cabinet
• but is this really a good idea in an imperfect
  world?
• Available power dont under estimate your needs

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Cooling issues

• Air versus liquid cooling
• facts figures
• Enclosures
• advantages, drawbacks, usage
• High density areas versus diffused site
  configuration
• Design out the HOT spots

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HOT Tips

• Have a strategy
• you will get burnt with the tactical approach
• Keep an eye on low-density equipment power
  creep
• you may be about to loose your UPS/cooling N1
  redundancy
• Better discipline within rooms and cabinets
• hot isles and cold isles
• patching cords cable management
• use blanking plates to avoid internal recycling
• watch out for sideways air flows on large LAN
  switches
• choice of cabinet mesh front and rear doors
• Try before you buy
• consider using 3D Computational Airflow Modelling
• No one size fits all solution
• look at your existing situation, organisational
  needs going forward
• internal disciplines best practice
• site restrictions, etc.

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John kicks of ChrisValue Management Timing
Planning
Design
Construction
O M
Typically 30
Cost Reduction Potential
Typically 10
When the baby is born the baby is born
Source TF Group
Cost to change

• The earlier in the project, the greater the cost
  reduction potential and the less cost to change

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Functional analysis

• All cost is function
• Always question function
• spring loaded shutters on RJ45 wall sockets
• RJ45 interfaces on LAN switches
• Always check for duplication of function
• locks on doors
• doors
• containers within containers
• fan trays
• support structures
• Encourage disruptive thinking

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Stupid 01High level cable entry
intotelecommunications room
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Stupid 02Fan trays in top of cabinets
Understand airflows LAN
switch
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Stupid 03Perfectly formed cable bundles
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Stupid 04100 Game-boy cable verification
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Further information

• Bicsi Telecommunications Distribution Methods
  Manual (TDMM)
• Gurus
• Value Engineering
• Lawrence D. Miles
• Quality Management
• Dr W. Edwards Deming
• Ask John Laban Chris Miller
• john.laban_at_annor.net
• 07710 124487

There is no direct relationship between cost and
quality . it is possible using global best
practice to have Cat6 at Cat5 prices