If your closets are vertically one over the other, you might be able to use pre-terminated fiber cables run through conduits ( I've seen many installations where they have a 4 or 5 inch diameter 'conduit' from the ceiling of one closet into the floor of another, code just required packing to minimize fire/air flow.
If not, it's still much less expensive to have a fiber run and terminated by a professional fiber cable outfit compared to running dozens of copper cables. Most of the good managed switches will have a fiber GBIC port/connection option, especially for trunking Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: facilities wiring question I have never worked with fiber before. Can anyone recommend a solution that would get me the 1Gb fiber from the second floor to the third floor in the most frugal way? Running a fiber optic cable is the same as running a CAT5 but I just cant bend it very tight right? James ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:45 AM Subject: RE: facilities wiring question >I second the suggestion of running everything back to a switch and then > running 10 Gig fiber from floor to floor. That would give you *tons* of > bandwidth to share out. :-) > > > > -----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/> ~ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.72/2511 - Release Date: 11/18/09 > 07:50:00 > > > ~ 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/> ~
