We're looking at a multi level commercial and residential greenfield project and will be designing and configuring the MDF & IDF closet layouts as well as the vertical and horizontal riser system for the structured cabling and networking solutions. This is not a datacenter and their won't be any cable trays or cable ladders.
The plan for the building is to have at least three 4inch EMT conduits (for fiber, cat6, coax) running vertically north south from roof to ground thru the IDF closets on each floor. All horizontal east west cabling on each floor runs from every wall jack thru 2x4 metal stud frames back to the floor's IDF closet.
We are assessing the options of north-south cables being only distribution and designing each floor's IDF as the access point for that floors' clients to coax multiswitches, voip to analog gateways, and layer 2/3 ethernet managed switches versus greater consolidation and economies of scale by staggering and segregating aggregation points across different floors. For example closets on floors 1 & 3 could passthru ethernet fiber and cat6 to floor 2 where larger switches would aggregate the access layer for floors 1-3 and trunk back vlans to the routing core.
fl10 Coax
fl9 Telephone
fl8 Ethernet
fl7 Coax
fl6 Telephone
fl5 Ethernet
fl4 Coax
fl3 Telephone
fl2 Ethernet
ground Demarc. L3 Routing core.
We're shopping locally and around online and are looking for more ideal solutions for some parts etc and would like to receive some different ideas, opinions, recommendations etc for efficient and effective solutions from you fine folks.
We are thinking of mounting junction boxes on each closet's fireproof plywood between each ceiling to floor 4" EMT conduit assuming it will add some functionality and clean aesthetic. We've found junction boxes similar to the following http://www.anixter.com/north-americ...lectrical+Supplies.Electrical+Enclosures.html but are still looking at more effective solutions for distributing and exposing cables between conduit and the equipment on the plywood. Are there any more ideal junction or distribution or pull boxes for the IDF closets that would accept the 4" conduits and enhance serviceability and cable routing to the floor's patch panels that would be mounted nearby on the fireproof plywood? Or would exposing the cables out of each of the 4" conduits to the plywood some other way be more effective?
We are not required that the fiber optics and their termination be guaranteed to any particular spec so does anyone offer yet more cost effective pre terminated LC/LC fiber with some longer lengths? So far best found at: ~$31/ea 40 Meter 10Gb Fiber Optic Cable, LC/LC, Multi Mode, Duplex - (50/125 Type) - Aqua
www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10237&cs_id=1023704&p_id=7627&seq=1&format=2
Otherwise who has reasonable prices for made to order terminated fiber with prompt turnaround?
What other parts, advice, and techniques can you recommend as indispensable for such a project?
Many thanks
The plan for the building is to have at least three 4inch EMT conduits (for fiber, cat6, coax) running vertically north south from roof to ground thru the IDF closets on each floor. All horizontal east west cabling on each floor runs from every wall jack thru 2x4 metal stud frames back to the floor's IDF closet.
We are assessing the options of north-south cables being only distribution and designing each floor's IDF as the access point for that floors' clients to coax multiswitches, voip to analog gateways, and layer 2/3 ethernet managed switches versus greater consolidation and economies of scale by staggering and segregating aggregation points across different floors. For example closets on floors 1 & 3 could passthru ethernet fiber and cat6 to floor 2 where larger switches would aggregate the access layer for floors 1-3 and trunk back vlans to the routing core.
fl10 Coax
fl9 Telephone
fl8 Ethernet
fl7 Coax
fl6 Telephone
fl5 Ethernet
fl4 Coax
fl3 Telephone
fl2 Ethernet
ground Demarc. L3 Routing core.
We're shopping locally and around online and are looking for more ideal solutions for some parts etc and would like to receive some different ideas, opinions, recommendations etc for efficient and effective solutions from you fine folks.
We are thinking of mounting junction boxes on each closet's fireproof plywood between each ceiling to floor 4" EMT conduit assuming it will add some functionality and clean aesthetic. We've found junction boxes similar to the following http://www.anixter.com/north-americ...lectrical+Supplies.Electrical+Enclosures.html but are still looking at more effective solutions for distributing and exposing cables between conduit and the equipment on the plywood. Are there any more ideal junction or distribution or pull boxes for the IDF closets that would accept the 4" conduits and enhance serviceability and cable routing to the floor's patch panels that would be mounted nearby on the fireproof plywood? Or would exposing the cables out of each of the 4" conduits to the plywood some other way be more effective?
We are not required that the fiber optics and their termination be guaranteed to any particular spec so does anyone offer yet more cost effective pre terminated LC/LC fiber with some longer lengths? So far best found at: ~$31/ea 40 Meter 10Gb Fiber Optic Cable, LC/LC, Multi Mode, Duplex - (50/125 Type) - Aqua
www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10237&cs_id=1023704&p_id=7627&seq=1&format=2
Otherwise who has reasonable prices for made to order terminated fiber with prompt turnaround?
What other parts, advice, and techniques can you recommend as indispensable for such a project?
Many thanks
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