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Article: Take control of the physical layer: tracking network problems is often like finding a needle in a haystack. (Infrastructure).
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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The stakes of network uptime and performance are higher than ever. Down-time was painful when the LAN was just a link to internal data, but today, when a network means e-mail, Internet e-commerce and even the telephone, if the network is down, the business is disconnected from the world.
An inherited patch cord jungle of wiring closets and out-of-date connectivity records can stymie the best efforts to plan and manage the physical layer. The more dependent an organization is on the network, the more costly even a few minutes of downtime can be.
Beyond automated work-order management and guided moves, adds and changes (MACs), physical layer ...