For your office infrastructure, we provide the LAN wiring, switches, and routers. The following documentation is from a recent installation at an office in the Denver Technological Center in Denver, Colorado.
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The area under the windows was difficult. We had to pull cable horizontally to the nearest post and then up to the plenum. This customer specified two separate drops at each location (one for voice and the other for data) so we had to pull two cables at each location.
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At some locations, there was a wall box with conduit up to the plenum. At other locations, we had to fish the walls.
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This room is the equipment room and kitchen. On the outside is the receptionist area with 4 drops: receptionist telephone and data, guest telephone, and fax.
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In the equipment room, we installed a 19" swing-out rack. Notice the two rows of RJ45 patch panel at the top.
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In the conference room, the concrete floor was cored, and LAN cables (and power) were run through the hole to the floor below and then back up through another core (in the wall) and up to the plenum. This gives the customer voice, data, and power below the conference room table.
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This is the swing-out rack with the LAN cables connected to the patch panels. The top row is for voice, and the second row is for data.
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With the rack in the closed position.
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We left the outlet bits in a baggie because the painters still had to roll the walls.
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After the installation of the LAN switches and the CBeyond router.
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The Asterisk IP-PBX server and a (temporary) Polycom IP501 telephone set. A 30" deep rack would have been too obtrusive, so we decided on an 18" rack and a tower case for the server. We'll tie down the patch cables to the rack frame after the phones are installed in the offices. The blue box to the right is a type 66 punch-down block for the fax and modem analog circuits. The unit in the lower right corner is a UPS.
The Asterisk server uses the SIP (VoIP) protocol to connect with the CBeyond voice channels, thereby eliminating the requirement for a T1 card in the IP-PBX.
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