Bury St Edmunds

Main Data Cabinet re-wire and re-patch

The IT staff at the site in Bury St Edmunds site were finding it extremely difficult to fault find on their network due to a neglected patch cabinet, as the company has grown, more and more employees have been recruited and therefore more and more data points have been added, they wanted a colour-coded patching network so that they could easily distinguish between voice ports, data ports and the servers.

They also wanted more accessible racks to be installed in their comms room, and their complete CAT5e network to be certified. After completing a site visit we decided that the best way to tackle this would be to completely remove all existing patch leads, remove the patch panels, consolidating data points, remove the old data cabinets and install a new Krone open frame system, then re-install patch panels, certify the network and then re-patch the cabinets using colour coded patch leads. We estimated that we would be able to complete the works over a long weekend as it had to be completed out of working hours, as you can imagine disconnecting all of the work force from their data and voice links during working hours was not an option! The other problem that we faced was the task of removing over 500 patch leads and making sure that we replaced them to the correct ports, to ensure this we set up a spread sheet were we could log every port and where that port was patched to.

We put our proposal and price to our client and they decided for us to go ahead with the work.