September 30, 2004
The Big Move
Been very busy. The previous moves rearranged the existing people into half the space. The half they cleared has been re-designed to a more dense configuration, electrical boxes moved and added. Map 1 in the drawing is the cable layout I made as I rearranged the existing cables to fit the new arrangement. Only needed to add ten sets of LAN cables. Not counting the pair I need to run to the far conference room that is being made into offices -- but that's next week if they are lucky. That map has the number of each cable in each floor location.
Sheet two are my available phone lines. Each one tested and number verified. Not until then did I realized that no one had actually planned the move and that I was adding more people to the building than I had existing lines for. I mentioned this at the last meeting which then delayed the move a week so I could move a dozen or so lines from the '41 building to the '81 building. That will happen next week.
Meanwhile, since I will not be able to place a phone on every desk, I had the client make me another map, number three, of the positions that will be occupied. The occupied positions are marked in yellow, and as I wire each line on list two to the cable listed on map one I am marking the position number and telephone number on map three. Highlighted in green. I should finish tomorrow and then can test the positions on the floor Monday - Wednesday.
The people that are moving were told this past Tuesday that orders would have to be placed to move their telephone lines. About 20 or so to swing on the weekend of the move. New cable assignments, the Torrance Frame will have to cut the lines from the old cable to the new, I'll have to test the lines and then run my cross connects to the floor positions.
Of course, I am not authorized any overtime. I'll have to do it Monday morning between 7:30 am and 8 am.
Posted by at September 30, 2004 10:48 PM