I have been trying for a couple of months now to find good links and helpful information on what it takes to move a company, specifically the data center, as that is what I am responsible for. As I move through this process though, I realize that I need to do a lot more than move some servers and routers.
The past two days have been spent meeting with cabling companies trying to get a handle on what we need to get the the phones to ring and the computers connected to the internet and our servers. It seems I need a cabling company to come and wire my building. What they do is run all the wires from our server room to the rest of the building, but there is a bit more to it than that.
There will be a demarcation point where the T1s will be dropped, I am most likely installing a T1 and a PRI, and the companies that drop those will only do that portion. From there, I need to extend the demark to the MDF in our server room. Because we are moving into a large warehouse, I also need to have them create an IDF and run fiber from the MDF to the IDF.
While I am learning on the fly, I am finding it hard to find helpful articles on the web that explain this all. Most sites focus on telephony or data networks but don’t explain how it all fits together. If anyone out there knows of sites that explain all of this well I would love to see them. I plan to share all I learn here, and hope that I expain it in a way that will make sense to me and others when I am done.
