Hi-Rise Building Fiber Suggestions

Wed Feb 26 15:37:56 UTC 2020

> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:46 AM
> To: Norman Jester <nj at jester.mx>
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Feb 25, 2020, at 18:34, Norman Jester <nj at jester.mx> wrote:
> >
> > I’m in the process of choosing hardware for a 30 story building. If
> > anyone has experience with this I’d appreciate any tips.
> >
> > There are two fiber pairs running up the building riser. I need to put a POE
> switch on each floor using this fiber.
> 
> In my experience with retrofitting existing structures, if you have access to
> the riser at each floor as it sounds like you do, you would typically drop in a
> new duct,  blow micro duct through it with a branch for each floor, have an
> MDF  or two In a utility spaces  and them you have the ability to reconfigure
> the fiber as necessary to meet your present and future needs.
> 
> You didn’t specify if the existing fiber is single or multi-mode however it is
> unlikely that the was enough slack built into two fiber runs to make 30
> additional splices so that approach seems dubious as a premise.
> 
> As you correctly surmise daisy chaining 30 switches is not an advisable
> network design practice.
> 
+1 to that,
Put your own fiber in and do a star topology to an MDF device.

adam