July 02, 2003
Running wire
Been rather busy the past week. Finished the cutover at the training center, meetings with the people setting up the new offices at 2154 (where we recently upgraded the LAN), the usual.
The office will be the standard cube city. Each position gets four four-pair cat-5e cables: one each for ethernet LAN, Asynchronous LAN, analog dial-up, a PBX telephone. The electricians are running conduits for me, a pair of 2 inch and a pair of 1.5 inch and three or four 3/4 inch. I will be pulling eight quads (32 cat-5 four-pair cables) in each of the 2 inch, six in the 1.5 inch, and single quads in the 3/4 inch pipes.
Will be rolling the cables off the reels, above. I will be placing a rod between the two red carts to hold two more large (1000 foot) reels of cable. I have 6,500 feet of quad-four, or about 5 miles of four-pair cat 5-e cable. With one helper it should only take a day to run, and a couple more days to terminate the ends and test to cat-5.