It is certainly my experience that a 1 GB connection between floors can support that number of connections (or more). It really depends on the utilization, of course. A wiring closet per floor is what I would consider standard, with fiber going between floors for switch to switch connections. In that scenario, you can run a 6 strand multi-mode fiber cable and have 3 connections to use (2 for redundancy and a spare) and it shouldn't be too expensive. Multi-mode GBICs are relatively cheap.
Bill Mayo -----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: facilities wiring question Yeah I was also thinking about just having one fast connection from the 3rd to the 2nd floor. All the 3rd floor are 100Mb. They have yet to run the cables from the 3rd to the 2nd. Maybe a 1Gb connection will be able to sustain about 40 100Mb desktops? Any ideas? Another idea I'm looking into is having the contractor do the job right of course. I just have to figure out whose fault it is and take into consideration slowing things down on an already waaaaaay behind project. We need to move into that building ASAP, the job is already 6 months behind! James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Scott" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:37 PM Subject: Re: facilities wiring question > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, James Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: >> New facility. The electricians ran wire to a location on the third floor >> but >> they ultimately need to go to the second floor, so they will run cable >> from >> the second floor server room up to the location on the third floor. > > Might be easier to put some network switches at the third floor location. > > Be warned that if these runs were already near limits due to > distance, putting an extra few sets of terminations in may cause you > to exceed spec limits. Ethernet isn't like power or analog phone > wiring, where you can splice and junction as many times as you want. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
