Concerning the physical network design in Data Centers which have quite a mix of high density blade centers, small 1-U servers, storage, mainframe, etc., I'd like to hear what standards are being followed. Are you using fiber fed switches to each rack, patch panels in each rack, cat5 or cat6 e, etc.
Do you use your own infrastructure group for cabling or outsource?
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February 18, 2008 4:51 PM
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February 18, 2008 8:11 PM
Thanks Buddy,
At the main Data Center we have 2 floors, about 2000 square feet each. At this time we are using Cat6 and fiber. We are using rack patch panels to another patch panel by the core switches. There are approx. 50 racks on each floor. What I’m trying to get away from is having to run so much cabling across the room and I’d really like to see the rack cable management much neater. Our infrastructure staff doesn’t run cabling on the rest of campus and they DO in the Data Center so we are looking for standards and procedures as to not re-invent the wheel : ) I like the idea of using fiber fed switches to the rack. Thanks again for the info.