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CD
Campus distributor
BD
BD
Building
distributors
Campus
backbone
cabling
Building
backbone cabling
FD
FD
Floor distributors
Directly connected
distributors
TO
TO
Horizontal
cabling
TO
TO
Telecommunications
outlets
Telecommunications
outlets
Floor distributor
Consolidation
point
Fixed horizontal
cable
Consolidation
point cable
Floor distributor
Telecommunications
outlet
Horizontal cable
Floor distributor
Telecommunications
outlet
Horizontal cable
(a)
Equipment
cord
Permanent link
Work
area
cable
Channel
(b)
Jumper
Permanent link
Channel
(c)
Equipment
cord
Consolidation
point
Permanent link
Work
area
cable
Channel
(d)
Permanent link
Channel
Fig. 3.11 Horizontal cabling models: (a) interconnect-TO, (b) cross-connect-TO, (c)
interconnect-CP-TO, (d) cross-connect-CP-TO.
Telecommunications
outlets
Horizontal
cabling
Floor
distributor
Consolidation poin t
FD
FD
FD
Building
distributor
FD
Campus
distributor
BD
Interdistributor
link
Building
backbone
cabling
CD
Campus
backbone
cabling
Link to external
telecommunications
special patch cords that contain extra connections that are used
to identify what is connected to what. This is only possible with
cross-connect.
We can see from the above that four combinations are possible:
Interconnect-TO.
Cross-connect-TO.
Interconnect-CP-TO.
Cross-connect-CP-TO.