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Month: June 2019

Pulls

Pulls

I did a few test wire pulls so I could measure the average wire distance for each pull. I have 280 drops total counting all of the different devices, APs, etc, and I will run 2 cables to each location for redundancy. The shortest pulls are around 30 ft, and the longest are about 250ft.

It looks like I need about 80,000ft (about 24km) of Cat6A if I account for pulling overages and box length. I wonder if I order 80 boxes on Amazon if they will still ship it 2 day? The UPS guys will probably not be amused. 80 boxes is about 2500lbs of wire.

Fiber demands are much lower, around 5000 ft or so.

Frame

Frame

Primary framing is complete. Still some cleanup work to do from our walkthrough today, but roof can start, as well as HVAC and plumbing. Woot!

Wheel

Wheel

I found the source of squeal. Fortunately the front wheel bearings on this truck are a bolt on affair. As a bonus I’ll put on a set of those Raybestos pads that Paul Yaw says don’t suck.

Old Office

Old Office

In my current office I have 4 active machines which has the downside of producing lots of heat and noise. The iMac is the quietest, but the dual Xeon dual 1080GTX 256GB ram machine is the loudest.

In the new house, I want to have as many machines directly available, but without the noise and heat. To accomplish that I plan on having all of the machine hardware in the server room downstairs, and use HDMI+Displayport+USB over fiber connections to monitors in my office.

The technology for HDMI 2.0 over fiber is well developed and pretty cheap. You can get 4K 60Hz 4:4:4 extenders for a few hundred dollars. Displayport over fiber is bit more expensive primarily because the use case is more limited. There are some 4K 60Hz 4:4:4 extenders, but they are over $1k, and I have yet to find Displayport 1.4 over fiber adapters (but I can find some AOCs).

One interesting thing is that most of the available extenders use multi mode fiber instead of single mode. I am going to run 12 single mode fiber as well as a 24 multi mode fibers to the server room from the office to support monitor extension as well as some fast IP connectivity. That should allow me to have up to 12 extended displays, and lots of other bandwidth should the need arise.

House

House

Roof sheeting is almost done, and about 3/4s of the windows are installed. This next week will finish up the sheeting and the windows as well as a start on the roof. HVAC and plumbing routing will start at the end of the week. We should be about 3 to 4 weeks away from the start of wiring.

DC

DC

Sunday afternoon activity – Moving some of my stuff to a new datacenter cabinet shared with Matthew R. Wilson. Stack Infrastructure is a nice datacenter and the Opus Interactive people have been awesome. Of course I will bump into Eric Rosenberry, Eric Bryant, Brian Crowley, and probably a few others. I think this location is 24MW at capacity.

If I could just get a dark fiber from here to my house. 😉

Fiber

Fiber

I ask my fiber guy to send me a small sample of an 12-fiber Single-mode OS2 underground direct burial . I’m thinking perhaps a 6 or 8 inch piece. This arrives by freight. Elmers Glue for size comparison.

On the plus side, I like it and I think it will work going from the house to the gate (plus the gate is the access to the street, so if I can wrangle a real fiber connection from Skyline I’m set.) I’ll need around 400m or so to get there.