May 19, 2004
Add Cisco 8500
Next job coming down the pike is adding 140 Avaya telephones to the second floor. The Avaya boxes haven't arrived yet, but the two Cisco 8500 switches that feed them have. 25 inches tall, sitting on the cart, waiting for the equipment racks to be secured and powered up. 
The routers are being mounted in the first floor terminal room, for non-extended access to the fiber feed from the central office. The output from the routers will go upstairs on the existing fiber patch panels.
Upstairs the Avaya box will be mounted right next to the rack with the fiber patch. It's output will be wired to a demarcation on the backboard, cross-connected back to the cat-5 patch panels and patched to each position out on the floor. Since they are only installing 140 positions I am making backboard space for 384 positions.
Why?
Because from experience -- if I provide enough room for what they ask, they WILL expand it past my design limits. If I make leave enough room for any possible expansion they will never expand past the original 140.
Posted by at May 19, 2004 09:23 AM