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:cluster...@gmail.com] 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" <mailvor...@gmail.com> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:37 PM Subject: Re: facilities wiring question > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com> 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/> ~
