It's been keeping me busy, and I am not sure you guys will appreciate the work that is going on here, but a bit chunk of my business of late has been due to design and implementation of a remodel and structured wiring project for my home office. At this point the structured wiring is done in the old office. I have it set up such that I can remove the cables from the patch panel, back pull them through the wall and pull them down the wall in the new office with no issues. There is a more than sufficient service loop in the attic.
Due to the complexity of my network, I selected a 7u relay rack instead of a wiring cabinet. This allows me to keep my network gear visible, including the KVM, and prevents me from enclosing the WiFi router. It provides sufficient space without being too terribly bulky.
The patch panel is sized to allow for a planned upgrade to the cabling and switch to allow for cameras and sensors to upgrade my current CCTV system. Every last piece of cabling, both ethernet, and coaxial has been sized and terminated by me. (Okay I didn't terminate the KVM cables...). Ethernet cable, patch panels, plugs and keystones in the rack and through the building are all Category 6 rated and tested for 10GbaseT ethernet (far above what my switches can do).
I still have network cabling for the LAN, and iSCSI SAN for both cluster nodes, as well as replace the 10 foot KVM cables with 15 footers (I have use for the 10 footers when it all moves to the new office. Once those are run, and cable management (Velcro tie bundled), powered up and tested, this part of the project can be considered complete. The old, original category 5 that was run by the previous homeowner is being moved as well where it can, to replace the telephone cabling which has gotten corroded over the years.
The rack layout is as follows.
Top shelf presently has a Zoom 5341J DOCIS 3.0 cable modem, and Buffalo AirStation High Power WZR-600HDP N600 / gigabit router. This replaced the previously shown Linksys EA2700 which had become very problematic with WiFi simply disappearing for no reason. A 3TB USB NAS disk will be attached to the router, as will an Ooma Telo VOIP adapter allowing me to put my phone network back to use.
The KVM is a TrendNet TK803R 8 port usb / ps2 KVM.
The main LAN switch presently is a TrendNet TEG-S16Dg, an upgrade to the TEG-S24Dg 24 port is planned.
The patch panel is a TrendNet TC-P16C6
The small switches are TrendNet TEG-S80G 8 port gigabit switches.
Relay rack is a Monoprice 7u wall mount relay rack.
The rack shelves are RacXcess Unitray UNS1 units (and the only item in the system I am less than happy with).
The cluster needs to be reloaded (my original intent, load a couple of times, learn it well, then do a final load for production...).
Anyway, I know a couple of you are tech geeky like this, so I figured I would show this off a little bit... No it's not all Cisco commercial stuff, but for a SOHO install it does work really well...
Due to the complexity of my network, I selected a 7u relay rack instead of a wiring cabinet. This allows me to keep my network gear visible, including the KVM, and prevents me from enclosing the WiFi router. It provides sufficient space without being too terribly bulky.
The patch panel is sized to allow for a planned upgrade to the cabling and switch to allow for cameras and sensors to upgrade my current CCTV system. Every last piece of cabling, both ethernet, and coaxial has been sized and terminated by me. (Okay I didn't terminate the KVM cables...). Ethernet cable, patch panels, plugs and keystones in the rack and through the building are all Category 6 rated and tested for 10GbaseT ethernet (far above what my switches can do).
I still have network cabling for the LAN, and iSCSI SAN for both cluster nodes, as well as replace the 10 foot KVM cables with 15 footers (I have use for the 10 footers when it all moves to the new office. Once those are run, and cable management (Velcro tie bundled), powered up and tested, this part of the project can be considered complete. The old, original category 5 that was run by the previous homeowner is being moved as well where it can, to replace the telephone cabling which has gotten corroded over the years.
The rack layout is as follows.
Top shelf presently has a Zoom 5341J DOCIS 3.0 cable modem, and Buffalo AirStation High Power WZR-600HDP N600 / gigabit router. This replaced the previously shown Linksys EA2700 which had become very problematic with WiFi simply disappearing for no reason. A 3TB USB NAS disk will be attached to the router, as will an Ooma Telo VOIP adapter allowing me to put my phone network back to use.
The KVM is a TrendNet TK803R 8 port usb / ps2 KVM.
The main LAN switch presently is a TrendNet TEG-S16Dg, an upgrade to the TEG-S24Dg 24 port is planned.
The patch panel is a TrendNet TC-P16C6
The small switches are TrendNet TEG-S80G 8 port gigabit switches.
Relay rack is a Monoprice 7u wall mount relay rack.
The rack shelves are RacXcess Unitray UNS1 units (and the only item in the system I am less than happy with).
The cluster needs to be reloaded (my original intent, load a couple of times, learn it well, then do a final load for production...).
Anyway, I know a couple of you are tech geeky like this, so I figured I would show this off a little bit... No it's not all Cisco commercial stuff, but for a SOHO install it does work really well...
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