[tech] Re: UCC uplink network upgrade

[David Cake]

At 5:47 PM +0800 10/6/03, Nick Bannon wrote:
>I hear the network upgrade is coming along - is this the plan?
>
>  * GR Services will pull a fibre tube from the comms cupboard in the
>    Guild direct to the old computer lounge, Cameron Hall

	Yep.

>  * They'll blow through and terminate at least two pairs of fibre
>    (multimode or singlemode?)

	Not blow through (too expensive), multimode. Probably only 
one pair out to Cam Hall.

>  * They'll pull cat5e from the computer lounge to the UCC

	Nope. Cabling from Cameron Hall to UCC is UCCs 
responsibility. UCC is free to either pay for G.Rs to do it at the 
same time, or do it otherwise.

>  * There will be a managed VLAN-able DLink 10/100 switch with two
>    100Base-FX ports in the Guild comms cupboard and another one in
>    the old computer lounge

probably only one pair in the Cam Hall switch. Actually three 
switches all up (one in CH, one in Guild ground floor comms cupboard, 
one in new guild comms room), one will have three fibre pairs, the 
others one each.
	I realise that in the long run (a few years) we will probably 
wish we had more fibre pairs, but then we hope to have a much bigger 
tech budget in the next few years than we have this year.
	We only just come in under budget as it is.
	Cheers
		David