Thanks to Kev and Dazza for the input - appreciated. N/
On 11/11/2010 10:15 AM, Nigel Allen wrote:
Hi All I am getting near to virtualising some 5 servers at a customers onto one box which will then replicate onto a hot backup server elsewhere on the premises (the far office). Bit of background. The offices are split in half with a corridor in between (and a concrete firewall that reaches up to the roof). On one side are the servers in a rack and the switches etc. The cabling from the switches to the far office are incredibly bad. In the far office are about 15 end users. The plan is to situate the hot standby server there. Given that the current wiring in the place is ahem, less than perfect, I want to ensure that the comms between the two offices (only a matter of 10 - 12 metres) are as good and fast as possible. Currently there are around 30 piece of cable poked through a hole in the wall (data + phone) all with a variety of really crappy connections some of which fail intermittently. What I'm thinking of doing is to run a single cable from office A to office B which will handle all of the replication demands and also be a connection for wireless access points. So, the question becomes, rather than run one single network cable through the wall for replication and access point traffic, what should I consider that will provide me with sufficient bandwidth? I was thinking optic fibre but my knowledge of networking is limited to copper wire and switches and small LANs. I presume that to connect fibre to the existing 10/100/1000 network will require additional switching gear etc? Any thoughts, pointers, ideas would be appreciated. Rgds Nigel.
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