RE: Patch panel accessibility

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

David,

My patch panel is in the top of a fitted wardrobe in my dressing room...
the room that the house-builders called Bedroom 4 ;-)

This allowed me to go up through to the loft space easily, and drop back
through the (plasterboard) walls upstairs.

Downstairs, we went out the side of the house, into trunking, and back in
through the walls. (The external walls are cavity, but filled with
insulation, the internal walls don't line up with the internal walls above
them, and the floors are mushboard, not floorboards, so taking them up
would have been a pig.)


In the patch panel, I have nothing but the patch panel and a hub. One day
I'll get a switch, but I got a 16-port hub free ;-)


The "Internet connection" comes into the house downstairs, in
Mary's study, on ISDN. The ISDN line plugs into a firewall which sits next
to the ISDN "master socket" and then plugs into a CAT5 point down
there (as ethernet.)

The "big server" sits upstairs in my study, next to my desk, and
runs the following:

- Intranet web server
- Database
- MP3 store, including the DDAR server (but see below)

The "little server" is going to sit, probably in my study, and
run the Linux DDAR server with the "big server" sharing the files
on an NFS mount. The logic of doing this is that it will let me use
Kieran's Pronto-integration stuff...

Regards,


Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher



-----Original Message-----
From: David Paterson [mailto:david.paterson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 2 April 2002 23:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Patch panel accessibility


Well, I'm almost ready to start putting in my Cat5 bits and bobs, but
I'm wondering where I should put the patch panel.  I can either put
it
in the loft, next to Node 0, or I could make space in the hall cupboard
for easier access.

What I'm interested in is where other people have put their patch bays,
or more specifically, how often they have to "re-patch" the
connections.

Initially it's only going to be phone distribution and computer
networking, but eventually I'll be adding video and audio, IR, in fact
the whole Kat5 caboodle :-)

My current thoughts are that, after a settling in period working out
the
best places for things, there probably won't be very many changes (so I
could happily put it in the loft) but I'd be interested to here about
other people's experiences to make sure I'm doing it the sensible way.

Thanks,

David P.



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