Infra Improvements
As i mentioned in the previous post, money is flowing into network infra improvements..
Recent additions are two 3Com Gbit switches featuring:
- FCC Class B certified for home and office use (more stringent than Class A certification).
- Auto-sensing/MDIX.
- Store-and-forward.
- Full-duplex support allows two-way data transfer, doubling the effective bandwidth.
- 802.1p traffic prioritization (priority queuing).
- Jumbo Frame up to 9k.
The acquired switches are the..
Even though the powernet seems to be very stable here, i don’t want any surges hurting my switches or servers. So i ordered me an APC Essential SurgeArrest.
What good are these sweet switches without decent cables?
Since the gateway/router is located in the livingroom, interconnecting the serverroom (containing the current Web Server (Seraph) & Data Server (Kandra), in the near future the SAN and 2 Core i7 beasts) and the livingroom (in the near future containing the home theatre) with the switches should not lead to any performance loss.
Especially when i want the SAN handing out iSCSI LUN’s to both rooms.
Enter the world of Cat 6 and S/STP..
S/STP cabling, also known as Screened Fully shielded Twisted Pair (S/FTP), is both individually shielded (like STP cabling) and also has an outer metal shielding covering the entire group of shielded copper pairs (like S/UTP). This type of cabling offers the best protection from interference from external sources, and also eliminates alien crosstalk.
Cables i ordered are all Cat.6 / Class E S/STP with 100 Ohm impendance.
I thought 2 × 10, 2 × 0.5 and 6 × 1 meters would do.
Once all the parts and pieces arrived, there will offcourse be a downtime, but that one will be announced as it will take more time to install properly.