RFID tag readability for tracking fiber optic connections in Data Centers

Author

Downie, John ; Whiting, Matthew ; Trice, James ; Vemagiri, Jeevan ; Blaignan, Vincent ; Suber, Chris ; Chamarti, Aravind ; Pollard, Scott ; McCollum, Robert ; Wagner, Richard E.

Author_Institution

Sci. & Technol., Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

15-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

230

Lastpage

235

Abstract

Data Centers have a very large number of optical fiber cables and connections, and there is a need to track the connectivity of these to assure proper network interconnection among the servers, switches, routers, and storage equipment. RFID tags integrated into the optical fiber cable connectors and the adapters into which they fit can be used to accomplish this tracking automatically. For patch panel fields, the resulting density of RFID tags is very high, but by proper antenna design it is possible to read all 456 UHF RFID tags in a typical patch panel field with 6 dB power margin, even at densities as great as 4.2 tagged components per square inch of patch panel surface area.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; radiofrequency identification; telecommunication network routing; RFID tag readability; UHF RFID tags; data centers; fiber optic connections; network interconnection; optical fiber cables; optical fiber connections; patch panel surface area; routers; storage equipment; Adaptive arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Connectors; Dipole antennas; RFID tags; RFID; connections; data center; tag array; tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID-Technologies and Applications (RFID-TA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sitges

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0028-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID-TA.2011.6068643

Filename

6068643