[K12OSN] OT building to building ethernet wiring
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Tue Oct 19 15:31:08 UTC 2004
If you use fiber, be sure to run it through a conduit, just to prevent an errant
shovel from ruining your day in the future. Also, be sure you bury a wire or
some sort of metal with the fiber so that you can find it again in a few years.
I buried a fiber cable some years ago, and it was such a short run we thought
there was no need for a tracer. Then the local power company decided they
wanted to change some of their runs, a side effect being they wanted to go right
across where the fiber line was and they needed to know where to not dig.
Fortunately, we had used a plastic conduit for the fiber, mostly to avoid the
afore mentioned errant shovel, and were able to push a copper ground wire
through the conduit to help us locate it then and in the future.
Petre
Michael Williams wrote:
>>Hello,
>> I wanted to get a wiring opinion from the list. I need to extend a
>>network from a school office to a few adjacent buildings. Each building
>>will have 5 or less workstations or LTS clients. The lengths are less
>>than 30m. I am considering running cat5e/6 thru metal conduit -vs-
>>fiber. I am concerned with ground potential between buildings and cable
>>loss etc -vs- cat2fiber and fiber2cat costs. Can I try it with cat, or
>>should I just use fiber?
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> We use fiber on all runs like this, for the same reasons you list, ground
> potential and the like.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Williams Haywood County Schools
> Technology Director Instructional Technology
> http://www.haywood.k12.nc.us (828) 627-8314
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