Agreed and you may need the space later for something else. Since you already know that who ever made the mistake it affects the telephone system as well. Go with a full closet and put in the switches with fiber between the floors.
Jon On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
