Structured Cabling and Fibre in the Data Centre
Data centre cabling at technician level, followed through Stonebridge Data's Beauharnois campus, near Montréal: the TIA-942 spaces, three-tier, spine-leaf and rail-optimized AI fabrics, copper DACs, AECs and Category 6A, OM4, OM5 and OS2 fibre at 100 to 800 Gb/s, MPO-12 and MPO-16 trunks and cassettes, polarity and breakouts, cleaning and inspecting high-density connectors, meet-me room cross-connects, overhead pathways and cable management, testing against loss budgets and keeping records, and cabling a GPU pod.
DCT-210 12 lessons · 3 h 52 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Data Centre Operations
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the data centre cabling plant from carrier entrance to equipment port and work on it safely while it carries live traffic
- Identify the TIA-942 spaces (ER, MDA, IDA, HDA, ZDA, EDA) and follow a link through them using the site's identifiers
- Explain three-tier, spine-leaf and rail-optimized AI fabrics and count the links, oversubscription and trunks they need
- Select and handle Category 6A, passive and active copper cables and active optical cables within their reach and power limits
- Recognize multimode and single-mode fibre types, their reaches at 100 to 800 Gb/s, and the connectors their optics use
- Read, count and handle MPO-12 and MPO-16 connectors, trunks, cassettes, pass-through panels and harnesses
- Apply polarity methods and Type A, B and C components so that every transmitter reaches a receiver, including breakouts
- Inspect and clean multi-fibre connectors to IEC 61300-3-35 and organize inspection on large installations
- Make, record and recover cross-connects in the meet-me room and choose patch cord lengths from the route
- Install and maintain overhead pathways and in-cabinet cable management within fill, weight and bend limits
- Test data centre links against their loss budgets and keep labels and records accurate to TIA-606
- Take part in cabling an AI pod from counts and route planning through testing, audit and handover
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 52 min total · final exam
- 1 Cabling in the data centre 20 min · quiz
- 2 TIA-942 spaces: ER, MDA, HDA, ZDA and EDA 20 min · quiz
- 3 Topologies: three-tier, spine-leaf and AI fabrics 20 min · quiz
- 4 Copper in the data centre: DACs, AECs and Category 6A 19 min · quiz
- 5 Fibre in the data centre: OM4, OM5 and OS2 19 min · quiz
- 6 MPO connectors, trunks and cassettes 19 min · quiz
- 7 Polarity methods and breakouts 19 min · quiz
- 8 Cleaning and inspecting high-density connectors 19 min · quiz
- 9 Patching, cross-connects and the meet-me room 19 min · quiz
- 10 Cable management: overhead tray, ladder and vertical managers 19 min · quiz
- 11 Testing and documenting data centre links 20 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: cabling a GPU pod in Hall D 19 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Data centre cabling at technician level, followed through Stonebridge Data's Beauharnois campus, near Montréal: the TIA-942 spaces, three-tier, spine-leaf and rail-optimized AI fabrics, copper DACs, AECs and Category 6A, OM4, OM5 and OS2 fibre at 100 to 800 Gb/s, MPO-12 and MPO-16 trunks and cassettes, polarity and breakouts, cleaning and inspecting high-density connectors, meet-me room cross-connects, overhead pathways and cable management, testing against loss budgets and keeping records, and cabling a GPU pod.