March 03, 2007
WiFi Done
Another Move" was the beginning, and shows both switches mounted and the wire management hanging. Last Monday/Tuesday saw the cutover and cleanup.
The two equipment racks have the new switches in, the old switches out, all the floor connections cut over, the new 831's mounted, etc.. *AND* the cabling all neatly tucked away in the Panduit wire management. On the left is the rack in the 1.1, a tiny closet, which holds the two Cisco 2600's connecting the LAN to the WAN. On the right, in the larger 1.2 terminal room with the windows, the rack has a patch panel to bring telephone lines in to go out on the cat-5 cabling. Why? I don't know. I didn't do it. We have 25-pair cat-3 cables everywhere. But this site has bounced back and forth between two OCS groups and the work shows it.
Anyhow, the Ironpoint APs are mostly hidden:
One I mounted in a conference/crew room using the supplied hardware to attach to the suspended ceiling. The Ethernet feed intercepts the cable going to the wall jacks. Power is from the POE equipped Foundry switch. The next is in the 1.1 terminal room. I originally planned it for the break/assembly room but couldn't justify the cost of the conduit when the AP will have no problem covering the room where it is. It has a ten foot patch cable right to the Switch. The third AP is stashed in the 1.3 closet, near the front office and the only conference room that is still used only as a conference room. Guests with their Corporate laptops will be able to connect wirelessly. And, yes, the KTS equipment in the photo is still being used.
The last AP? That one I needed the electricans to do their thing. The is a small room above the north entrance, the AP is mounted on the east wall of the N/E corner, feeding the external antenna. They didn't ask me how long of a coax I would need; which is why 67 feet of the 75 foot coax is coiled up. Lose some small amount of signal, but where I place the antenna still gives me a excelent signal at all corners of the lot. Note: on future jobs, while 3/4" is find from the terminal room, the conduit for the coax should be 1". In the 3/4" conduit the female coax connecter will not pass; I had to feed all 75 feet down from the roof rather than 8 feet up from the room.
Posted by Paladin at March 3, 2007 11:54 AM