The past week was hectic at work. I was assigned to design a site-wide network for an engineering camp, a camp containing housing compounds, offices, utilities and other facilities for engineers and workmen working on building a new city on the Red Sea.
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| A0-sized infrastructure drawings are good for taking pictures with |
But this time, things were different, no longer were we assigning a Telecom Room/Closet in each building, where we host the native equipment (access/distribution switches), we were just providing cables. Why you ask?
Well, in the past few years, the lighting technology (fiber optics) have become a more affordable technology for large scale projects than the normal copper-switched networks.
Instead of providing each building with a Telecom space to host active equipment, the network is now mostly passive (fiber optic cables and passive splitters) swirling around, while each apartment/building/house/... gets its own ONT/ONU (small or large switches to service the needs of the space). Here is my first concept design:
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| Splitter ratio was not included since it depends on the PON technology required by the client |