WeatherDave
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We recently were told we would be moving in the next 18 months. The new location (built substantially to our recommendations) will consist of about 400,000+ Sq Ft of interspersed Office, Lab and warehouse area.
We havea good team of people, certainly with enough expertise on hand to understand the issues regarding what product to use for given areas (Firewalling, routing, VLANing and QOS, UTM's, etc..) but lack good knowledge of this level of physical network layout and design. Now of course we've all terminated and run our own cable, but that's a far sight different than understanding physical network design and architecture IRT a new building space. Questions that come to mind are like: kinds of conduit are allowed and suggested for ceiling fiber runs; recommended pull lining, what are the design considerations IRT switch and router racking (weight, bolting, etc); what resources are there to help design and layout efficient usage of physical network spacing.
Granted, the builder should have this kind of knowledge, and design things as they should be. That said, having some in-team knowledge of those "should's", and the ability to fall back to industry recognized resources will probably save a lot of time, energy and effort later. After all, we all know that just because something should be done a certain way, doesn't mean that everyone understands what "should" means, or that they actually do what "should" be done ("Trust, but verify" leaps to mind).
Our process of investigation has just started, and we've found one already regarding fiber layout (NECA/FOA 301 Standard), but know there are others. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter, and have a good day.
Dave
We havea good team of people, certainly with enough expertise on hand to understand the issues regarding what product to use for given areas (Firewalling, routing, VLANing and QOS, UTM's, etc..) but lack good knowledge of this level of physical network layout and design. Now of course we've all terminated and run our own cable, but that's a far sight different than understanding physical network design and architecture IRT a new building space. Questions that come to mind are like: kinds of conduit are allowed and suggested for ceiling fiber runs; recommended pull lining, what are the design considerations IRT switch and router racking (weight, bolting, etc); what resources are there to help design and layout efficient usage of physical network spacing.
Granted, the builder should have this kind of knowledge, and design things as they should be. That said, having some in-team knowledge of those "should's", and the ability to fall back to industry recognized resources will probably save a lot of time, energy and effort later. After all, we all know that just because something should be done a certain way, doesn't mean that everyone understands what "should" means, or that they actually do what "should" be done ("Trust, but verify" leaps to mind).
Our process of investigation has just started, and we've found one already regarding fiber layout (NECA/FOA 301 Standard), but know there are others. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter, and have a good day.
Dave
