Audience

This course is intended for anyone who will be involved in the Design and Engineering of Structured Cabling Systems. The primary audience will be installers moving into design, designers, sales support, technical support personnel, account managers, consultants and 'end-users' involved in infrastructure specification. Those students who are specifically looking for SYSTIMAX Design certification should take the SP3321 course instead of this course.

If you are a NETCONNECT or UNIPRISE Partner, successful completion of the SP3000 will provide you ACT III design accreditation.

Pre-requisite experience

It assumes no previous design or cabling experience but equally will suit someone with experience but requiring a recognized design qualification. This course will take new students to a high design level.

Objectives

• Understand the designer's role and responsibilities
• Learn about project and installation planning with respect to infrastructures
• Provide a foundation of essential knowledge to support Infrastructure design
• Review the new range of copper and fiber cables, connectors and panels
• Overview the industry standards
• Understand architectural design issues
• Learn about horizontal design copper and fiber
• Help with designing fiber and copper riser systems
• Know what to consider for campus designs
• Select optimum products for the design

Key Topics

Information gathering and design analysis – review the designer's role and responsibilities, what the customer is looking for in Infrastructure purchases, who you need to consider partnering with. It will cover the design brief including project cycles, decision-makers, specification and bid as well as over-viewing the very latest trends in enterprise infrastructure design.

Updates to the CommScope NETCONNECT and Uniprise product range. The first two lessons look at the product changes to both copper and fiber solutions. Making decisions on the components used for an installation could have an impact on how the cabling is run, together with the containment choices.  

Standards and Performance takes a detailed look at the key standards that influence infrastructure design, the standards bodies, which apply and their shortcomings. It pays particular attention to the commercial building standards regional and global TIA, ISO, CENELEC, associated design standards and the current and future application interface standards that are all essential to the designer.

The Pathways and Spaces section gets to grips with TIA569, ISO/IEC18010 and EN50174 amongst others. This topic introduces the 1st stage in planning a commercial design, Equipment and Telecommunications rooms, linking buildings, containment planning and specification.
Design of the cabling infrastructure is the major part of the course and this topic is detailed in Horizontal, Building Backbone, Campus Backbone and Administration lessons. This details copper and fiber design based on core standards TIA568, ISO/IEC11801 and EN50173 amongst others.  Horizontal will cover design distances, reduction calculations, connector counts, inter-connect vs cross-connect, CP and MUTOA design. It includes consideration of Building Automation (BAS), planning for Wireless Access Points (WAPs) and other applications such as Power over Ethernet (PoE). Backbone design includes fiber loss calculation and application performance considerations. The student is provided with a clear understanding of administration principals and administration field design.

Lessons include:

• Copper Cables Connector and Panel Components Update
• Fiber Cables, Connector and Panel Components Update
• Standards and Performance
• Architectural Design
• Horizontal Design
• Building Backbone Design
• Campus Backbone Design
• Administration Design

How will I learn?

You will study this course online in a self-paced format. The course is made up of a large number of webcast lessons and online multiple-choice assessments giving immediate feedback.

Successful completion will require

Any level of pass in the accumulative overall assessment score.

Is this the right course for me?

If you are involved in design, project management, consultancy, infrastructure specification of enterprise projects and require a thorough understanding of both standards-based design then this course is for you.

Upon successful completion you will:

Receive the course certificate and the CSCIS CommScope Structured Cabling Infrastructure Specialist badge.

Course information:

BICSI CECs: 2 Event ID: OV-COMM-OC-0922-2

Certificate valid for 3 years

Estimated study time: 4 hours 30 minutes

Overall content duration: 4 hours