Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP)

2 Days

12 CPD hours

The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional, consultant and/or those who work in network cabling system design, implementation and operation.

With few exceptions, enterprises today rely on IT for the delivery of business-critical services - often directly to the end consumer.

It is therefore vital that the mission-critical data centre is designed, maintained and operated with high-availability and efficiency in mind. Among all the facilities, network cabling is the foundation for the network and one of the major contributors to the availability of the data center.CNCDP© is a 2-day course designed to expose participants to in-depth knowledge in designing and installing the data network cabling system which includes key subject matters such as; technical standards, designing of different cabling sub-systems, calculation of material requirements, architecture, installation, testing and acceptance.

Introduction to Structured Cabling System (SCS)

• Brief history of SCS
• Basic copper and fibre transmission
• Copper and fibre cabling
• Single and multimode fibre
• Step/graded index multimode fibre
• Difference between Commercial Wiring and data centre cabling
• Development of standards
• Role of standards
• ANSI/TIA 568 standard
• Common standards
• The new usage of cabling to support Smart building

Horizontal and Administration - Commercial Building

• Standard diagram recap: ANSI/TIA-568
• Functional elements and example
• Scenario A: Determine the number of work areas
• Scenario B: Determine the number of user locations
• Zone wiring
• Administration: Interconnect and cross-connect
• Angled and flat panels
• Creating a cabling schematic design
• Convert schematic into physical layout
• Calculating the material list

Horizontal and Administration - Data Centre

• Standard diagram recap: TIA-942
• Basic/Reduced/Typical data centre setup
• Traditional 3 layers network design/ Spine and Leaf network design
• Select termination hardware
• Administration design
• ToR/EoR/Spine & Leaf cabling design
• Network and cabling resiliency
• Create cabling schematic design for ToR/EoR
• Convert into patch panel/rack layout
• Calculate the material list for ToR/EoR

Building Backbone - Commercial Building

• Backbone diagram
• Calculate the copper backbone requirements per Telecom Room (TR)
• Calculate the fibre backbone requirements per Telecom Room
• Summarize the building backbone requirements
• Recognised cables
• Backbone Patch panels
• The maximum backbone distances
• Create cabling schematic design
• Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout

Building Backbone - Data Centre

• TIA-942 based backbone topology
• TIA-942 backbone requirements
• Recognised backbone cable
• ToR/EoR/Spine and Leaf
• Backbone distance estimation
• Resiliency of backbone cable routes
• Creating cabling schematic design
• Converting the schematic design into patch panel/ rack layout
• Field and Fusion Termination for fibre connectors
• Pre-terminated fibre trunk and copper cables

Architectural Considerations

• ANSI/TIA569-D Cable pathway and spaces
• Common requirements for the rooms
• Definition of the rooms
• Entrance Room/Demarcation
• Ceiling and floor pathways types
• Cable trays/basket/ladder/conduit
• Inner duct/sleeve/slot
• Calculating of pathway size
• Cable run best practices
• Cable management/AIM
• Grounding and bonding
• Separation distance requirements for copper cabling to power cabling
• Fire stopping
• Fire rated barrier
• Fire rated jacket cable

Campus / Outdoor Backbone

• Common campus cable installation and cable types : Aerial cable / Direct-buried / Underground in-conduit
• Outdoor cable installation planning
• Lightning / surge protection
• Approved ground for surge protector
• Creating a schematic diagram
• Converting a schematic into a physical layout

Site Inspection and Testing

• Visual site inspection notes
• Installation common issues
• Copper testing standard
• Permanent link / Channel / Patch cord / MPTL testing configuration
• Fibre connectors
• Fibre testing standard
• Tier 1 & 2 certification
• Fibre link definition
• Fibre testing steps
• Fibre inspection and cleaning
• Calibrating the test sets - 3 methods
• Setting up mandrel for testing
• Fibre loss budget calculation
• G.657 Bend insensitive fibre
• Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)

Exam - Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP©)

• The exam is a 60-minute closed book exam, with 40 multiple-choice questions.
• The candidate requires a minimum of 27 correct answers to pass the exam.

Additional course details:

Nexus Humans Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.