Main switchgear Patch Panel cabinet.

[speckytecky]

Right guys and gals this is the current input for the network in our school.

 

We now have 4 servers and circa 150 devices running on the network. The core switch is currently a D-Link 24 port managed switch and as can be seen from ye olde photo the current kit protrudes so far out of this patch panel cabinet - which lives in the Staff Room (which reaches super heated temp some days in the Summer) that the glass door is permanently left open.

 

We now have an HP ProCurve to become the core switch but obviously it won't fit in the cabinet.

 

What's the recommendation for moving forward on this one please - we are scheduled for a full electrical rewire in the Summer hols.

 

[plexer]

Looks like someones lounge.

 

Tbh I would put in a bigger wall or floor mounted cab and put that machine which I assume is being used as a server inside it as well.

 

Ben

[speckytecky]

Thanks Ben - I knew this thread would have most of it's readers rolling about laughing. The lone Windows 2003 Server did at one stage sit on that mobile desk and the box sitting on it now is actually a cheapie Belkin UPS! The Servers now have their own Air Conditioned room and proper APC UPS boxes.

[plexer]

Ok in that case can you relocate the connections from that location to the air con location?

 

Ben