Cable Labeling

It is very important to give labels to your cables. Labels make your network troubleshooting less painful. In case of problem, you don't want to trace every cable end to end. Each end of cable should be labeled, the label should give information about where the cable is connected to. It is really up to you or your company policy how the description format of the labels should be written. The most important thing is to keep the writings not too long, and easy to be interpreted. For example, I have a fiber optic cable at the IDF going to the MDF, I like to name it like this: for the IDF cable: MDF_Core1_23 -> it tells that the cable is going...

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Network Segmentation

You started your network with small amount of computers and networking devices, sooner or later you want to add this and that, next thing you know your network got slower. If you have this condition in your network, you might want to consider reviewing back you what devices you have in your network. You might need to segment your network. You can use switches and bridges to segment your network, if you use them you separate your network collision domain. Remember what collision domain is when I posted about switches. Like the above picture, if you use switch to connect 4 computers, then you'd have 4 collision domains. On the other hand, if...

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