Intelligent cabling works around the specialized physical layer devices which works as sensors and are placed throughout the structured cabling. The job of the sensors is to monitor the sta¬tus of all possible ports. These sensors send the information back into a cen¬tralized system in a near real time [> fashion. And from this centralized sys¬tem some specialised applications are able to detect the errors when generated. These specialized applications are able to separate the errors and can even sug¬gest a possible solution while alerting.

In a traditional system, if let's say a cable gets bad, the admin would have to go through a diagram of the network topology to find the incident point and then have to follow the logical path of the network to identify the problem be¬fore he can correct it. But in case of in¬telligent cabling, the admin is alerted with the precise location of the fault and also the system can instruct him on how to fix the problem.





The intelligent structured cabling is able to track IP-based devices such that, the network manager can access, con¬trol, and manage them from one central location. This is more critical considering today's distributed computing envi¬ronments and the acute need to troubleshoot them remotely.

But the important point to under¬stand here is that, intelligent cabling is not just a single software or hardware, but is a full fledged one which starts from a single est bit of the system) and ends to a cen¬tral database which keeps track of all the feeds which are generated from such system. Some of the prominent players in intelligent cabling in India are Digi¬Link (through RiT), Panduit, TyCO, etc.