Comms through fibre

[Guybrows]

Hi everyone,

We have a an installation running at the moment with a comms panel in the basement. It is a shop. The original contractors have installed a 6 core fibre from the comms panel to the top floor for future expansion. That expansion is now happening. I have run all my cat5e cables from phone points and data points to our newcabinet panel on the top floor.


I have a data engineer coming to do the job and would like to have a better understanding of what will be needed and how it will work to link the two comms panels.

Tanks a million

 

[UNG]

I assume the phones are going to be VoIP and not coonected to a normal PABX system. With VoIP type of installation I would think a new multi port ethernet switch or switches will be installed on the top floor that has a fibre interface input. In the basement the fibre would connect to a fibre switch which would connect to the data network and telephone VoIP exchange.

 

[needasparks]

Have google and read up on fibre and copper backbone structured cabling and try and understand what media converters do.
Its not that difficult really so don't let the IT guys tell you otherwise.