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Sub-comms Cabinet - Components

Apostolos
Hi

I dont know if this is a suitable place to ask this however I will give it a try...

I have a tall building of 14 storeys

The main comms cabinet is on the ground floor and we shall install a sub-comms cabinet on the 10th floor that will do floors 6-14. Totally 150 x CAT6 will depart from this sub cabinet to various RJ45 sockets on floors 6-14.

This sub cabinet will be connected with Fiber Optic cable back to the main comms cabinet

We are going to use 1U 24 port patch panels in the sub-cabinet to satisfy these 150 points. So we shall have at least 7 or these racks.

My understanding is that ALL ACTIVE equipment will be housed in the main comms cabinet.

Where is the FO cable going to connect within the sub cabinet?

Does it go directly on the 24-port patch panels?

Does it go to a rack mounted kit above the patch panels and from there goes to the patch panel racks inside the sub cabinet?

Excuse my ignorance around comms networks.

This is going to be the job of the sub contractor that we are going to empoy.... however I would like some insight before we talk to him

Any help is highly appreciated

Cheers

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    Thanks a lot guys

    So, I had a small chat yesterday with someone who definitely has seen more than me and what he gave me as a layout for the sub comms cabinet was this (going from bottom to top of the cabinet):

    The incoming FO cable will plug into a Fiber Patch Panel

    From there with fiber patch leads we go into a Fiber Converter

    From there with RJ45 patch leads we will daisy chain 4 x 48 ports Ethernet Switches stacked one on top of the other

    From the ethernet switches with RJ45 patch leads we shall go into 7 x 24 ports Patch Panels stacked one on top of the other

    From the patch panels we shall wire out to the 150 RJ45 sockets around the floors

    Of course there are lots of 1U spaces left between all the above for ventilation and cable management.

    All in all we are probably gonna use a 42U floor standing cabinet however THIS WAS the architecture that I was given yesterday...

    So at least I have an idea

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    Thanks a lot guys

    So, I had a small chat yesterday with someone who definitely has seen more than me and what he gave me as a layout for the sub comms cabinet was this (going from bottom to top of the cabinet):

    The incoming FO cable will plug into a Fiber Patch Panel

    From there with fiber patch leads we go into a Fiber Converter

    From there with RJ45 patch leads we will daisy chain 4 x 48 ports Ethernet Switches stacked one on top of the other

    From the ethernet switches with RJ45 patch leads we shall go into 7 x 24 ports Patch Panels stacked one on top of the other

    From the patch panels we shall wire out to the 150 RJ45 sockets around the floors

    Of course there are lots of 1U spaces left between all the above for ventilation and cable management.

    All in all we are probably gonna use a 42U floor standing cabinet however THIS WAS the architecture that I was given yesterday...

    So at least I have an idea

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