Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP)

This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of network cabling design principles and practices. Participants will learn about industry standards, including ANSI/TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801, as well as best practices for designing structured cabling systems to meet the needs of modern network infrastructure. The course covers topics such as cable types, transmission media, cable management, and network topology design. Participants will also gain practical experience through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will be well-prepared to pursue CNCDP certification and excel in the field of network cabling design.

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.

Course Benefits:

After completion of the course the participant will be able to:

• Understand the various standards for network cabling systems, the models and how to apply these to the network design.
• Design the user cabling and patching system for commercial buildings.
• Design the network cabling and patching system for data centres.
• Design the backbones for both indoor and outdoor cabling.
• Select the proper cabling containment/ pathways for network installations.
• Apply the correct installation practices and avoid common mistakes.
• Define the right testing criteria and methods for copper and fiber systems

Course Syllabus:

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
• 657 Bend insensitive fibre
• Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)