October 10, 2005
ReStack continued
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Yeah, it's a total mess now. I have all of the old Cisco switches moved into the temporary rack, the neat 12 inch jumper cables replaced with 6 to 8 foot cables. I have three of the seven new Foundry switches mounted, jack fields moved slightly to snugly fit the 1.5 RU height of the Foundry versus the 2 RU height of the old Ciscos. The seventh Foundry switch will be placed in the router rack.
On the other side of the room I have a cabinet for the file servers, and their patch jacks will terminate on a new panel at the top of the switch rack. Interspaced with the new Switches I will be mounting 192 new voice jacks for the new Avaya telephone system.
For the next few months I'll be sitting with two complete LANs existing in the space designed for one. I will REALLY like it when the cut is complete and I can remove that extra rack.
Posted by at October 10, 2005 10:16 PM