Explore the Value-Added Potential of Your Data Center's Physical Infrastructure

The core of your data center is its physical infrastructure, and now is a great opportunity to examine the infrastructure in your data center and answer the question: is it working with you or against you? Your network depends upon its physical foundation to perform the way it should. A well-designed physical layer is absolutely critical to ensuring higher-level functions work for data center requirements well into the future. Your data center should be equipped to handle the traffic and demands placed upon it today and in the future. If the space your hardware occupies is designed well, that can help you maximize the capacity of your network, enabling connectivity that can support future user demands. If your infrastructure is not working with you, enabling more efficient processes for all who use your data center...maybe it's time to evaluate a new solution.

The most likely time for a data center build or expansion to stall or slow down is during the planning, needs assessment, design and installation phases. In these phases, physical layer requirements and space constraints are the primary factors being considered, and of course, there are so many different pieces to consider, from racks and cabinets to cabling, cabling management, patch panels and cords. Beyond that, you also need to consider risk redundancy and cooling optimization, and ensure that the connectivity, bandwidth and fault tolerance meet the requirements necessary to leverage the latest technology.

Of course, these are elements that a solid infrastructure design can address. Instead of looking at the physical layer as a constraint to work around, it’s worth putting in place a physical infrastructure that works for you, not against you, by balancing a facility’s power needs, data requirements, space restraints and cooling capacity.

Visit the Data Center section on our Panduit page to read more on this subject and see the newest build-to-order cabinet, FlexFusion! FlexFusion cabinets offer a unique, universal platform for your data center in the Hyperscale, Edge and Multi-Tenant spaces. With so many customization features available, FlexFusion can deliver the performance you need to keep your network running at optimal efficiency.