RE: Fiber

Phil, lots of good advice here.
You can buy fiber already pre terminated, so you don't have to mess with the
special tools.  After that all you need are the correct media filters to
connect to your Ethernet backbone.  We have had an issue where we ran fiber
above ground, strung between buildings on the same campus.  We had lightning
problems, and eventually it was buried in conduit.

Of course with Cat5e you have length restrictions (100m), but unlike the
rest here, I would not discount a wireless connection.  We had a client in
the central valley of CA, that had 2 buildings about 1/2 mile apart, and
they did not want to have to install another T1, so we engineered a good
wireless solution using directional yagi antenna.  It has worked perfectly
for over 3 years.

When we moved into our new offices, we left our data center in a different
building.  Basically the 2 are separated by a parking lot.  We are using a
108MB wireless link between the 2 buildings.  It also works very well.  As a
side note, all of our analog lines for our phone switch terminated in our
other building, but we wanted to move the phone switch, so we used 2 VoIP
gateways to convert the analog > IP > wireless > IP >analog then into the
phone switch.  It was much cheaper than trenching the parking lot or any
other solution we could come up with.
cjg 


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of phil Kestenbaum
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:44 PM
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Subject: Fiber

In my belief it is not easy to run the fiber as cat5e. The most critical is
the end points. We are looking to expand to an adjascent building, using
Fiber or possibly wireless, where there will be RF devices attached to our
Iseries Warehouse system and some PC's attached to the ISeries. 

Has anyone done such an expansion?
 
 
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