April 03, 2008
Fiber to the Prem!
One of the holdups was a lack of fiber in out diet.... Last year I mentioned that I did not see any fiber entering the building. Then they found that the conduit across the street to the fiber run was blocked. But they kept at it and this week they dug up Western Avenue, fixed the conduit, pulled in an interduct and then pulled in the fiber:
Of course that doesn't mean anyone has actually connected the fiber to anything. It sure is not connected at the building end. There is no equipment in the little room they built for the fiber termination rack. But all that is minor compared with not having any fiber run to the premise.
Meanwhile, the carpet is still on pallets and my racks are still free to wander.
I have roughly 70,000 feet of Quad-cat5-four pair cable ready to run. My cable trays are up and secured in the two telephone equipment rooms (TE1 and TE2) As soon as the carpet is laid and the racks are bolted down I can mount the equipment and patch panels and call in some help to run the floor cables.
Posted by Paladin at April 3, 2008 07:15 PM