Till the recent past, there was no spe¬cific ways to figure out a broken link on a near real-time basis. With the advent of intelligent cabling, this problem seems to be getting resolved. In an intel¬ligent network setup. the systems can automatically find out devices con¬nected with the physical layer and can link them with connectivity changes and also track the device locations. Es¬sentially in an intelligent cabling setup, the specialized ports, patch panels and outlets work like sensors, which can be managed through a software over SNMP or some other similar protocol.




So essen¬tially in an intelligent cabling setup, you/ SNMP enable the physical layer de¬vices. With intelligent cabling, a person can get a logical view of the entire net¬work . With intelligent cabling, documen¬tation of the network layer also becomes a utomated and accurate. It also provides security as it can identify unauthorized modifications on a real time basis and can generate alerts automatically.