> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:46 AM > To: Norman Jester <n...@jester.mx> > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 25, 2020, at 18:34, Norman Jester <n...@jester.mx> wrote: > > > > I’m in the process of choosing hardware for a 30 story building. If > > anyone has experience with this I’d appreciate any tips. > > > > There are two fiber pairs running up the building riser. I need to put a POE > switch on each floor using this fiber. > > In my experience with retrofitting existing structures, if you have access to > the riser at each floor as it sounds like you do, you would typically drop in > a > new duct, blow micro duct through it with a branch for each floor, have an > MDF or two In a utility spaces and them you have the ability to reconfigure > the fiber as necessary to meet your present and future needs. > > You didn’t specify if the existing fiber is single or multi-mode however it is > unlikely that the was enough slack built into two fiber runs to make 30 > additional splices so that approach seems dubious as a premise. > > As you correctly surmise daisy chaining 30 switches is not an advisable > network design practice. > +1 to that, Put your own fiber in and do a star topology to an MDF device.
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