While some templates make it easier to do, it’s still frustrating and takes a chunk of man-hours out of the day. This is a world of difference to the usual pain of having to manually pick through cables, roll along the cable until you see a tag or marking and jot it down. To make life easier, Panduit has released the RapidID Network Mapping Solution, a Bluetooth-enabled barcode scanner that automates the labour-intensive and error-prone process. The monotonous task takes forever to complete and is wide open to mistakes, adding to the amount of work needed at the end of the day.
But regardless of how large the centres are growing, electricians were still using prehistoric methods of cable documentation. With the size of data centres growing each year, the number of cables in these buildings is growing as well.
