My Basement Datacenter (21 Pics)

[PlusLabs]

Well, I finally moved into my new about 3 months ago and now I can say that I am pretty much all finished with the datacenter that I have in the basement... :rolleyes:

It took a long time and many late nights, but it's all finished. The day of the move, I had to drag all the stuff from my old house here and slap it all together to make sure it was working for Monday. As time went on, I organized it more and more... But enough talking, let's begin the tour!

This is the main shot of the server room, anti-static lenolium floors for the server room floor, epoxy coated concrete for the rest of the area. The ceilings are not done yet, but will be very shortly. We have 3 seperate 20A circuits feeding power to this area:
http://66.160.168.153/post/01.jpg


This is our corporate portal Sun Enterprise 220R Server. It has all the front ends for the Oracle 10g database. It is a dual 450MHz UltraSparc with 2GB RAM and 2x 36GB SCSI Hard Drives:
http://66.160.168.153/post/02.jpg

This is a Sun D1000 StorEDGE JBOD drive array, there is only 2 72GB drives in there for now, but I am looking to expand the storage in the near future as our Oracle DB grows:
http://66.160.168.153/post/03.jpg

Next down the line is our HP ML350 Server which is running Windows Server 2003 Standard w/ Exchange Server 2003. It's our main mail server as well as message store for Cisco Unity Voicemail:
http://66.160.168.153/post/04.jpg

This is our WAN equipment in the same rack as the servers mentioned above. From the top down... First is the Marconi TNX-210 ATM Switch/Router from our carrier Cablevision Lightpath. The fibers on the left are the Single Mode fibers coming in from the demarc (seen later on in the tour) and the fibers on the right go to our switch router (seen later). Next is a Cisco 3662 Router which is maxed out with Flash and DRAM. It serves as our data router as well as our voice gateway to the PSTN for the Cisco CallManager system. Below that is a Cisco PIX525-R Firewall/VPN Server which is used to aggregate our other remote sites into this one. Below the PIX is our Cisco 2600 Dial In Router for remote access and below that is a Cisco VG200 PSTN voice gateway that is used for local POTS lines (911 Calls, Alarm, Etc...)
http://66.160.168.153/post/05.jpg

Next rack over is my switching rack. The patch panel ontop connects all the data cables in my house. Our central switch/router is a Cisco Catalyst 5509 with dual power supplies, RSM routing module, 3 10/100 Baldes, ATM Blade and a 9 Port GigE GBIC blade.
http://66.160.168.153/post/06.jpg

Here is a close up of the switch. I forgot to mention that it has dual supervisor engines:
http://66.160.168.153/post/07.jpg

Below the Catalyst 5509 is two Siecor fiber patch panels and also a patch panel that has cross-connect going to the server cabinet:
http://66.160.168.153/post/08.jpg

Next, we go to the server cabinet. In the lower half of the cabinet, you will find a nice array of servers. Here is the types and their purposes:

IBM X330 - Network Monitoring Server (Debian)
IBM X300 - Media Storage (Windows 2000 Server)
Dell 2650 - Cisco CallManager
Dell 2650 - Cisco Unity Voicemail
Dell 2650 - Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server
Dell 2500 - Windows 2003 DC + DNS + DHCP + WINS
Dell 2500 - Windows 2003 DC + DNS + DHCP + WINS + FTP + TFTP
http://66.160.168.153/post/09.jpg

Artistic shot?
http://66.160.168.153/post/10.jpg

KVM:
http://66.160.168.153/post/11.jpg

The rest of the Solaris Cluster. 3x Sun Netra X1 front end servers and another Enterprise 220R Server. This is our primary Oracle 10g server:
http://66.160.168.153/post/12.jpg

Now we can take a look at the wall behind the racks that has all of the telco equipent:
http://66.160.168.153/post/13.jpg

This is the Cablevision fiber demarc that I mentioned earlier:
http://66.160.168.153/post/14.jpg

And we can open up the access panel... top 2 fiber pairs go to the TNX-210 and the last pair goes to a Fiber-Copper T1 converter for our PRI:
http://66.160.168.153/post/15.jpg

SmartJack for the PRI T1 and also punch blocks for Lightpath and Verizon:
http://66.160.168.153/post/16.jpg

These are my punch blocks for the Cat3 phone cable runs for the house and the office:
http://66.160.168.153/post/17.jpg

And that concludes the tour of the actual server room, now we can take a look at my office which is a couple feet away from the server room....

Overview of my desk:
http://66.160.168.153/post/18.jpg

My Cisco 7971G-GE Gigabit IP Phone:
http://66.160.168.153/post/19.jpg

My HP Compaq NX9600 Laptop:
http://66.160.168.153/post/20.jpg

Overall shot of my office:
http://66.160.168.153/post/21.jpg

Well, I hope you all enjoyed the tour and I welcome any questions or comments! :p

[flynlr]

sweet setup :D but i only saw 1 UPS there. you have more right?. also what the heck is all this for?

[Ockie]

That looks like an OC48 line... so I'm gonna guess medical.


or the Pr0n0 industry :p

[Darkstar850]

Wait, I am a little confused. All of this stuff is in your house? Or did I misread that?

[jbog91]

No. I'm pretty sure you read that right. If you read somewhere in the "show off your network" thread, he talks about building a new house and getting OC48 and putting in all that equipment.

I read more than I post. :D

EDIT: Here it is.

Look down at the bottom.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=539366&page=63&pp=20

Just keep reading.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=539366&page=64&pp=20

I think he works for XI Communications.

[compslckr]

wow, what do you use all of this stuff for?

looks like a pretty sexy setup

[RiDDLeRThC]

umm wow lol not much you can really say about all that. Who do you work for or better question what company do you own?

[Ockie]

The company probably needed a relay point so they bought him a company house and gave him a sick network to play with. :p


This one company I know bought a buiding just so they can use the roof of it for their wireless equipment to relay their connection between two buildings.

[tdg]

Wow, very nice. You may want to edit the pic of your phone, I'm not sure if thats a real phone # or what displayed as forwarded to, but may want to blur it if so :)

And a little off-topic, but what's the cost run on the IP phone setup, and what all do you have to have? I'm looking for one for home, but can't find much info on the setup.

[jeffmoss26]

Wow, nice setup. What's the actual phone system running on? Is it just that one server?

[Scroatdog]

Wow, nice setup. What's the actual phone system running on? Is it just that one server?

Very nice, sick, and well-organized setup you've got there. Reminds me of the equipment I saw last night while on a tour of the Level 3 Communications center here in San Diego. Really interesting to see an Internet backbone up close.

[Stang Man]

The company probably needed a relay point so they bought him a company house and gave him a sick network to play with. :p


This one company I know bought a buiding just so they can use the roof of it for their wireless equipment to relay their connection between two buildings.

sounds like a sweet deal to me!!

[Crosshairs]

I wet myself.....:)

[oC|-TiTaN]

Ohhh Myyyy Agod

[AcidTone]

The company probably needed a relay point so they bought him a company house and gave him a sick network to play with. :p


This one company I know bought a buiding just so they can use the roof of it for their wireless equipment to relay their connection between two buildings.


This looks to be the case. I was looking at the pic a little closer before i left work and in one of the pics it has a name of a NY city datacenter and the it looks like the OP is from NY.


I had to go change my underwear when i first looked at this. :rolleyes: :D :D

[Artluo100]

man, nicee real nice..

[PlusLabs]

Quick update...

If you are wondering if this place is an oven, it's the opposite. I have a seperate A/C unit for this room. It keeps it at a steady 71 degrees.
http://66.160.168.153/post/22.jpg

My next door neighbor is going to buy some bandwidth from me in the next couple of weeks, so I am getting ready to run some fiber over to his house... First I have 2 Siecor LANScape fiber patch panels that I will patch the outside fiber cables into:
http://66.160.168.153/post/23.jpg

Next, the Catalyst 5509's Gigabit blade has 2 Single Mode GBICs that will be used to connect to my neighbor:
http://66.160.168.153/post/24.jpg

[PlusLabs]

:D Okay, I see that most of you have questions... well I have answers for you, and I will answer them all one by one.

@ flynlr Yes, there is only one UPS. I know it sucks that most of this stuff is being fed "raw" electricity. Trust me, a very nice APC UPS is in the works.

@ Ockie I wish it was an OC-48. It's actually an OC-3 connection that puts out around 5mbps. We have the 10mbit service from Cablevision Lightpath, and they add it all up as a bundle so it comes out to about 5mbps of bandwidth. We are far from medical, we deal with World Wide Artist Management and Transportation Solutions. Most of our business comes from farming out coach buses to other companies (Grey Hound, CoachUSA, Classic Coach, etc...)

@ Darkstar 850 Yes, it's in my home, in my basement. As soon as you come down the stairs to the basement, it's the big door right infront of you. ;)

@ jbog91 Thanks for those links, and yes, that's the house. Here is a picture of it finished:
http://66.160.168.153/post/26.jpg

@ compslckr Well, I pretty much described it along with the pictures. Databases, Management, Phone System, Etc...

@ RiDDLeRThC Well, I actually do both. My primary job is as a Cisco AVVID Engineer for a pretty well known telecommunications company. I design and impliment Cisco Voice/Data networks by profession. On the side, I work with my father's company and do all of the stuff you see in the pictures. The company has around 87 Cisco IP Phones deployed throughout it's 4 locations.

@ Ockie Well, we actually have 4 locations and this location is the core. All the other sites VPN back to here.

@ tdg Cisco VoIP is probably an expensive way to go for the home. To give an estimate, I just designed a Cisco VoIP system for a doctor's office with 67 phones and voicemail, and it came out to $67,300 w/o labor. :eek:

@ jeffmoss26 The phone system runs on several components. The primary controller, kind of like a PBX, is the top most Dell 2650 server, the CallManager. This server is responsible for all of the call setup functions and such. The server below it, is the Unity Voice Mail Server, but it does not store messages on the server, it stores the on the Exchange Server (HP ML350). The 3662 Router is the voice gateway that has POTS and a PRI connection on it. BTW, is this you? http://www.dslreports.com/profile?find=jeffmoss... because if it is, this is me: http://www.dslreports.com/profile?find=oxygen

@ Scroatdog I used to be a loyal Level 3 customer for about 3 years. Then I found out I can get another ISP for fraction of the cost.

@ Stang_Man Yeah, I wish they picked up the mortgage every month.

@ Crosshairs ... No Comment. :rolleyes:

@ oC|-TiTaN Yeah, dude.

@ AcidTone Well, this place is out east in Long Island, NY. We do have some stuff colocated @ 60 Hudson in NYC.

[AcidTone]

Very cool you are a lucky man. I wish i could get my hands on some of that stuff. Working at a public school district doesnt give me enough money to think about that kinda stuff, but i wish it did.

[tdg]

@ tdg Cisco VoIP is probably an expensive way to go for the home. To give an estimate, I just designed a Cisco VoIP system for a doctor's office with 67 phones and voicemail, and it came out to $67,300 w/o labor. :eek:

I'm not afraid to spend a little for a IP phone setup, I bought a PIX 501, 2611 router and 2924 switch for a home network instead of the normal home user Linksys type stuff. I've always had a facination with networking and tinkering with stuff, and always spend more than I really should for high grade equipment. Any good links on how to set IP phones up? I just cant find out what all I need to make it work.

[jeffmoss26]

yes, that is me, i have seen most of your stuff on there.

[TheBluePill]

5 Points for Clean Network Layout
5 Points for Well Organized Server positioning
2 Bonus Points for Top end Equipment and a Kick Ass office
- 2 Points for Unfinished walls / ceilings (Particulate Fiberglass is a bitch on a HS/Fan, not to mention the HVAC water being 5 feet from the rack..)
- 2 Points for Minimal Backup Power
- 1 Point for No Game Server

7/10


Your Getting There... Keep up the good work.

[drizzt81]

:@ Ockie I wish it was an OC-48. It's actually an OC-3 connection that puts out around 5mbps. We have the 10mbit service from Cablevision Lightpath, and they add it all up as a bundle so it comes out to about 5mbps of bandwidth. We are far from medical, we deal with World Wide Artist Management and Transportation Solutions. Most of our business comes from farming out coach buses to other companies (Grey Hound, CoachUSA, Classic Coach, etc...)


5Mbps seems awefully 'slow' for a fibre network connection.

[PlusLabs]

5Mbps seems awefully 'slow' for a fibre network connection.
Not sure what you mean...? :confused:

[screwmesa]

Nice setup man. I think drizzt81 means 5mbps of bandwith sounds weak for an OC-3 connection.

[PlusLabs]

Nice setup man. I think drizzt81 means 5mbps of bandwith sounds weak for an OC-3 connection.I think the transport method and the bandwidth are not related...

What about when Verizon deploys Fujitsu FLM150 muxes for 1 T1 line?

[Jordan1]

Very nice. :cool:

[Pinnacle]

You need to get some drywall and seal that ceiling, not only will it make it look better, but it will protect your equipment. Very small pieces of that fiberglass insulations do break off and well, if that starts getting into the equipment bad things will happen :(

[Killermac]

Nice home,
Great Network setup
clean install that is the way my room at work should look. Alas.


KM

[J32P2006]

My system is way more advanced then that.

For instance I got a........................................................... ................. oh wait .
nevermind, i don't got shit.


But seriously, you got some nice equipment. The office is looks nice too.

[Arch]

...Cisco VoIP is probably an expensive way to go for the home. To give an estimate, I just designed a Cisco VoIP system for a doctor's office with 67 phones and voicemail, and it came out to $67,300 w/o labor. :eek:

More power to you for charging them $67k for that stuff. 67 phones is easily supported with CallManager Express running on a Cisco 2811. That sort of set up should be well under $35k for 67 7940s and a couple 7960s. Most places could probably even get by with a majority of 7912s. Then again, I'm guess I'm spoiled in that I have at least a dozen Cisco IP phones on my desk at work. A mixture of 7912s, 40s, 60s, 61s, 70s. To me, these things don't cost anything.

I'm curious to know why you need to run CCM and Unity at home? Then again, why you need a PRI is also curious :) If you're going to run all that voip stuff you should at least run it through something better than a VG200.

Lastly, I find it very humerous that you have TAC's phone number posted on your racks. Please don't tell me you have a Smartnet contract for your house?

[Lugztaz]

http://jritze.com/H/drool.gif http://jritze.com/H/drool.gif

...that's all i got. just...wow...i hope to be AT LEAST working with that stuff n' day :D

[PlusLabs]

More power to you for charging them $67k for that stuff. 67 phones is easily supported with CallManager Express running on a Cisco 2811. That sort of set up should be well under $35k for 67 7940s and a couple 7960s. Most places could probably even get by with a majority of 7912s. Then again, I'm guess I'm spoiled in that I have at least a dozen Cisco IP phones on my desk at work. A mixture of 7912s, 40s, 60s, 61s, 70s. To me, these things don't cost anything.

I'm curious to know why you need to run CCM and Unity at home? Then again, why you need a PRI is also curious :) If you're going to run all that voip stuff you should at least run it through something better than a VG200.

Lastly, I find it very humerous that you have TAC's phone number posted on your racks. Please don't tell me you have a Smartnet contract for your house?Well, there were many reason why I chose CallManager, plus the customer wanted features not supported by CME.

I am running it "at" home but not "for" home. As I explained earlier, we have 4 remote sites, around 90 phones all together and all have UM.

The VG200 is not the gateway, the 3662 has the PRI MFT and the DSPs. The VG200 is for POTS.

Yes, we have contracts on all of our firewalls and on all of the phones. The remote locations that have Cisco 3725 routers have contracts on them too.

[versello]

5 Points for Clean Network Layout
5 Points for Well Organized Server positioning
2 Bonus Points for Top end Equipment and a Kick Ass office
- 2 Points for Unfinished walls / ceilings (Particulate Fiberglass is a bitch on a HS/Fan, not to mention the HVAC water being 5 feet from the rack..)
- 2 Points for Minimal Backup Power
- 1 Point for No Game Server

7/10


Your Getting There... Keep up the good work.

Screw the game server. I want to see some pr0n! :p

[Arch]

Well, there were many reason why I chose CallManager, plus the customer wanted features not supported by CME.

I am running it "at" home but not "for" home. As I explained earlier, we have 4 remote sites, around 90 phones all together and all have UM.

The VG200 is not the gateway, the 3662 has the PRI MFT and the DSPs. The VG200 is for POTS.

Yes, we have contracts on all of our firewalls and on all of the phones. The remote locations that have Cisco 3725 routers have contracts on them too.

Why not run the POTS service out of the 3660? Eliminates one extra box.

[PlusLabs]

http://xipi.net/post/27.jpg

Forgot to post these... my wireless devices. BlackBerry and Cisco 7920 WiFi phone. :cool:

[PlusLabs]

Why not run the POTS service out of the 3660? Eliminates one extra box. That would kind of eliminate the redundancy of having the POTS. But I guess if the power goes out, the whole company goes pretty much down the drain. :mad:

[Stang Man]

That would kind of eliminate the redundancy of having the POTS. But I guess if the power goes out, the whole company goes pretty much down the drain. :mad:

2 seperate power companies :)

[Lugztaz]

2 seperate power companies :)

that depends on the area...could come off the same line and in the same direction so might do any good

[killerasp]

it seems as if what you have there is mission critical stuff...why not put it at co-lo?

[PlusLabs]

it seems as if what you have there is mission critical stuff...why not put it at co-lo?Don't worry, as I mentioned aboved, we have some of our servers colocated at a very respectible datacenter in New York City.

Here is a picture of our cabinet. This the MISSION CRITICAL stuff:

The whole cabinet:
http://66.160.168.153/post/30.jpg

3 HP DL380 G3 Servers:
http://66.160.168.153/post/28.jpg

Back of the servers and the PIX515E firewall (required by the colo company):
http://66.160.168.153/post/29.jpg

The back of the Cisco VPN Concentrator:
http://66.160.168.153/post/31.jpg

[PlusLabs]

Not sure if you guys got the drift yet... but...

http://xipi.net/post/sunlove.jpg

[Lugztaz]

Not sure if you guys got the drift yet... but...

[IMG]http://xipi.net/post/sunlove.jpg[/IMG


and I <3 your system
:D

[Ockie]

Now the question is... whats your address...


And please, don't mind the black van in your street. :p

[t10]

I envy your commute.

[Kaos]

what would you say is the best/cheapest place to get some polycom/cisco IP phones...or have any spares you wanna sell ;) ?

[Arch]

what would you say is the best/cheapest place to get some polycom/cisco IP phones...or have any spares you wanna sell ;) ?

Cisco IP phones don't go cheap, a 7940 (a 2 line phone), goes for about $300 retail price. The 6 line version, a 7960, is about $400. The 7970 color phone you see here on his desk is $700. I doubt you will find places that sell them for much less than that, even if they are used.

[PlusLabs]

Cisco IP phones don't go cheap, a 7940 (a 2 line phone), goes for about $300 retail price. The 6 line version, a 7960, is about $400. The 7970 color phone you see here on his desk is $700. I doubt you will find places that sell them for much less than that, even if they are used.I have a 7971G-GE buddy, don't insult my phone! :p

[Arch]

I have a 7971G-GE buddy, don't insult my phone! :p

Same thing :)

[morpheus6d9]

droooooooooooooooooooool

[PlusLabs]

Same thing :)

CP-7970G-CH1 7970 IP Phone with one Station User License $890
CP-7971G-GE-CH1 IP Phone 7971G-GE for Channels with 1 Station User License $1,040

[Arch]

The only difference between the 7970 and the 7971 is the gig ethernet port on the back.

[fabian`]

why do i need a gigE port on my fu**ing telephone :D ?

really nice setup! currently doing my Cisco CCNA...wish i could get my hands on your Cisco stuff :)

[Josh]

Awesome post as always!

[PlusLabs]

why do i need a gigE port on my fu**ing telephone :D ?

really nice setup! currently doing my Cisco CCNA...wish i could get my hands on your Cisco stuff :)
If you are running gigabit to all the desktops, the phone will be able to passthrough gigabit traffic.

[ikari303]

How is your ATM connected to the rest of this? Does it go into the Marconi and then into your big Cisco switch or what? Or both? Huh?

[PlusLabs]

How is your ATM connected to the rest of this? Does it go into the Marconi and then into your big Cisco switch or what? Or both? Huh?
Both.

[Ockie]

I'm assuming that house's location was specific in regards to the backbones distance?

If you don't mind me asking (you can pm me), how much is that connection setting you back? How much are they charging per incriments? I'm looking at aquiring a large connection but it's kind of a gray area because they either tend to gouge you or they don't give you an accurate figure and it's really hard to estimate because it seems that your cost is greatly affected by your telco or the distance you are from the backbone.

[PlusLabs]

I'm assuming that house's location was specific in regards to the backbones distance?

If you don't mind me asking (you can pm me), how much is that connection setting you back? How much are they charging per incriments? I'm looking at aquiring a large connection but it's kind of a gray area because they either tend to gouge you or they don't give you an accurate figure and it's really hard to estimate because it seems that your cost is greatly affected by your telco or the distance you are from the backbone.It's not a secret, it's all over their website: http://www.optimumlightpath.com/Interior213.html

[Ockie]

But those prices depends on a lot of things... which is why I was asking.

[PlusLabs]

But those prices depends on a lot of things... which is why I was asking.
What makes you say that? I pay exactly what's quoted there plus a few fees here and there for stuff like DIDs and such.

[(V)andopr77]

and I <3 your system
:D

Screw the system.

I <3 your HOME!!!!

[Sieravor]

OMG, I covet your setup. Heh.

I need to move out of florida so I can have a basement to put my network toys.

[dr_debauch]

I realize I'm a bit late to the party- but I have a question about the CallManager/Unity boxes you're running. I see they're on Dell servers- did Cisco recently change their stance on unsupported platforms? I didn't think you could install CCM or Unity on a Dell server in particular. I realize you could buy 3rd party boxes, but I always thought you just bought the Compaq/HP/IBM that Cisco had OEM'd for their MCS line.

Edit: I realize there is a registry hack available to allow you to install CallManager etc. on anything you want, but I thought TAC would tell you to screw if you went to them with a problem and they found out.

[vapb400]

what desk is that?

that is an absolutely amazing setup man! I hope to have on like that someday

[typhoon43]

I realize I'm a bit late to the party- but I have a question about the CallManager/Unity boxes you're running. I see they're on Dell servers- did Cisco recently change their stance on unsupported platforms? I didn't think you could install CCM or Unity on a Dell server in particular. I realize you could buy 3rd party boxes, but I always thought you just bought the Compaq/HP/IBM that Cisco had OEM'd for their MCS line.

Edit: I realize there is a registry hack available to allow you to install CallManager etc. on anything you want, but I thought TAC would tell you to screw if you went to them with a problem and they found out.


I'd also like to hear about this. We run CCM on Cisco prived boxes and honestly, they BLOW. If there's a way around it, without ruining our TAC support, I'd be all over it.

[fabian`]

how long did it take to build this setup in your home ?

[negaduck]

all i have to say is WOW

[j4zzee]

Does your wife know all of that is in the basement? :p
"Honey, come look what I built...."

[scott77]

Man, this makes me wish I took pics of my old server room. I had one of those $70 wireframe Costco deals, it went something like this:

Quadra 600 running OpenBSD (firewall)
Mac IIcx (nameserver)
SPARCstation-20 (mail, coda)
SPARCstation IPX (nameserver, krb5, nis) [yeah i was doing nis+krb5 :D]
dual P2 running FreeBSD (web, shell)
DECstation (of the pmax variety, can't remember which model tho)
hp 425t (apollo WHAT)
SPARCstation-2 (backup mx, personal shell machine)
few other x86 machines here and there

lol

[PHUNBALL]

@ jeffmoss26 The phone system runs on several components. The primary controller, kind of like a PBX, is the top most Dell 2650 server, the CallManager. This server is responsible for all of the call setup functions and such. The server below it, is the Unity Voice Mail Server, but it does not store messages on the server, it stores the on the Exchange Server (HP ML350). The 3662 Router is the voice gateway that has POTS and a PRI connection on it. BTW, is this you? http://www.dslreports.com/profile?find=jeffmoss... because if it is, this is me: http://www.dslreports.com/profile?find=oxygen

You better hide those pictures from Cisco, I don't think they would want you showing off Callmanager running on unapproved/unsupported hardware...

Edit: I see someone already touched on this subject...

[PHUNBALL]

More power to you for charging them $67k for that stuff. 67 phones is easily supported with CallManager Express running on a Cisco 2811. That sort of set up should be well under $35k for 67 7940s and a couple 7960s. Most places could probably even get by with a majority of 7912s. Then again, I'm guess I'm spoiled in that I have at least a dozen Cisco IP phones on my desk at work. A mixture of 7912s, 40s, 60s, 61s, 70s. To me, these things don't cost anything.

I'm curious to know why you need to run CCM and Unity at home? Then again, why you need a PRI is also curious :) If you're going to run all that voip stuff you should at least run it through something better than a VG200.

Lastly, I find it very humerous that you have TAC's phone number posted on your racks. Please don't tell me you have a Smartnet contract for your house?

Actually, Cisco only supports 36 IP Phones on the 2811 platform. In order to officially support 67 phones you would need to step up to a 2851 (96 IP Phones)...

[J_I_M_B_O]

DUDE, YOU'RE LIVING MY DREAM!

Nice setup, I especial like those dell servers, I always like the look of the dell line.

And do you manage this yourself looks like alot of work for you when you moved to get all those back up and working fast

[The Real Zardoz]

That's awesome.

One day I aspire to have something like that - good to see that someone has actually done it.

I'm surprised they don't deliver capacity with gigabit which seems to be the norm here in Australia now. I can't say I've ever seen any Marconi gear elsewhere before - I've worked on ASX-200s, 1000s and 4000s and some old ESX's that we just scrapped (such a shame). I've been meaning to get ATM running here at home except my cat5k is faulty which is the only ATM <-> Ethernet box I have (unless I can get over the high price of a PA-FE-TX here in oz for my 7206...)

[BlackTigers91]

Better hope ya never move ;)

[davef139]

How much did they charge you for the fiber install? And bandwidth?

[dualblade]

really cool setup. throw a house warming party for us interested geeks. i'll bring the pizza! (fellow long islander)

[bored-sarcasm]

what desk is that?



i was wondering the same thing.

[GlobalFear]

really cool setup. throw a house warming party for us interested geeks. i'll bring the pizza! (fellow long islander)
I can just imagine someone spilling coke on one of the racks.......... :D

[AMD_Gamer]

where do you start to learn about all that stuff lol

[blu3_scr33n]

Sweet setup!

You must have some reallly reaaally nice protections systems for your house. (Fire/Theft) Not sure if I would have it in the basement, people around here (MA) get flooded basements quite often.

Btw, what did you goto school for? Computer science? or Computer Engineering? I'm taking up compE next year at WIT in Boston.

[jesusfr3ak4evr]

Sweet setup!

You must have some reallly reaaally nice protections systems for your house. (Fire/Theft) Not sure if I would have it in the basement, people around here (MA) get flooded basements quite often.

Btw, what did you goto school for? Computer science? or Computer Engineering? I'm taking up compE next year at WIT in Boston. If either of the two, I'd imagine CE, but that doesn't cover his knowledge on all this Cisco/Sun stuff. I'm sure he has all sorts of certifications. Afterall, he designed some gear for Cisco?

By the way, I'm pursuing CE this fall at the University of Maryland Baltimore County :)

[lockheed2266]

That setup is so sick. What kind of business do you do? What kind of internet connection do you have?

[just2cool]

Sweet setup!

You must have some reallly reaaally nice protections systems for your house. (Fire/Theft) Not sure if I would have it in the basement, people around here (MA) get flooded basements quite often.

Btw, what did you goto school for? Computer science? or Computer Engineering? I'm taking up compE next year at WIT in Boston.

Hey, I'm in CE too - at Penn State.

I'll be a junior next year, however I'm currently an intern at an IT service company. Like jesus said, you won't learn anything Cisco related in your major, unless of course, you find a few electives that go over it. And to my knowledge, there is no such thing as a VoIP class offered at any school.

Surprisingly, the Cisco VoIP stuff is very easy to pick up on, at least for me. I didn't know anything about IP telephony prior to a month ago, but now I can do just about anything and solve just about any problem within CallManager or Unity. Both applications are configured via a web interface, which is a strange twist coming from Cisco and their liking toward a terminal interface.

But yeah, it's interesting stuff - much more fun than solving Windows problems all day long... Now, if only I could understand Cisco routers/switches better...those are much harder to pick up on :)

[-(Xyphox)-]

very nice cable management, how do you like the cisco ip phones?

[|CR|Constantine]

Until you put up a 64 player BF2 server the entire setup is pointless. :D

I live around equipment like that all day long, last thing I would ever want is it in my home. Screw that.

I sure hope your not the one paying the electricity bills...good Lord.

[PlusLabs]

Until you put up a 64 player BF2 server the entire setup is pointless. :D

I live around equipment like that all day long, last thing I would ever want is it in my home. Screw that.

I sure hope your not the one paying the electricity bills...good Lord.

Oh yes... I'm paying:

http://66.160.168.153/electric.jpg

[PlusLabs]

very nice cable management, how do you like the cisco ip phones?
I love them.

[PlusLabs]

That setup is so sick. What kind of business do you do? What kind of internet connection do you have?

This network in my house is for my family's business... they work with the entertainment industry and transportation...

I personally work for a company that specializes in Cisco IPT in dealing with Fortune 500 companys.

[PlusLabs]

http://66.160.168.153/wtpc1.jpg

http://66.160.168.153/wtpc2.jpg

We are on an OC-3 fiber loop between my house and the other office, other nodes are on DS1 circuites into the cloud.

We are now streaming A LOT of video content overseas to the far east, so most network activity is during the evening and the night.

[Fiber-Optics]

I have to admit that is one very nice house setup, definatly give you props on all the work related on building that. Keep up the good work glad to see people keeping busy.

[Johnboy12358]

You let me know if you need one of those server farm/hubs down in Texas, alright? :D

[Bbond919]

i 2nd what johnboy said... Man this thing is amazing , and your power bill......Freakin outa this world...Wish i lived next to ya :)

[drizzt81]

With regard to the electric bill, have you looked into commerical rates? Or would that lead to other costs that are likely to offset the savings?

[walwalka]

dude your crazy 1912 bucks omfg but all that stuff is do fun

[santaliqueur]

$1,912 is more than my mortgage payment (in massachusetts!). great setup.

[Scroatdog]

Two words: writeoff. :p











YES. I know that's only one word. :rolleyes:

[protias]

that network is too [H]ot for a home network.

and btw, thx for the internal ip scheme, what are your external ips? :p i guess this is the part where i would say, "you should probably take those out." i am paranoid with releasing any of that type of information.

edit: your LAN parties must kick some major [H]ard ass! lol

[∞Velocitymaster∞]

all those equipment is very expensive :p
but what about security? anyone can break in if it happens and steal it. Thats thousands there:confused:

[protias]

Holy thread resurrection batman! :eek:

[Jay_oasis]

lol

they are doing the same as me

Using top level workers as relay points.

I am currently building the same type of thing under my stairs.... noisy though.

[Martyr]

so question, where does all the cat5 go? i see alot there, more than just for the servers and such? do you have every single room in your house wired?

[FLECOM]

why is your cablevision fiber nid grounded? :confused:

[QwertyJuan]

nice...

[SnowPunk98]

O_O

[serialtoon]

I wanna come over and just DROOL at all that! Excellent job man!!!!

[RoBo]

I wanna come over and just DROOL at all that! Excellent job man!!!!

I want to drool on it = short -> broken. :eek:

Yeh i'm jealous. :cool:

[TopGun]

...aww now i need a new keyboard :(
Very jealous of your setup.

[niccoli]

Flecom - I work for a FTTP company and we have to ground our NID's as well. The reason we do this is for locating services. Most locating services connect a toner to the ground wire in the outside plant and then use a receiver that pics up the tone and tells you where the wire is. However, for it to work you have to have both sides grounded.

Could be completely off base but that's why we ground ours.

why is your cablevision fiber nid grounded? :confused:

[elec999]

Is it just me, or I gotta learn my CISCO and get my CCNE. Very nice setup.
Thanks

[annaconda]

I am speach less. Please tell me your education, i want to be like you :D

[xphil3]

Nice shizzle oxygen. Better than that OOL stuff you used to have :p;)