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That is not (nor has ever been) a requirement in NZ.<br>
Any fool with side cutters and punch down tool can wire their own
home,<br>
office or spaceship using a guide off the internet for
phone/data/satellite etc.<br>
It is only where the Telco demarcation point exists that determines
any standard<br>
or checking.<br>
Hence, many of the circus style events that I have listed (I could
add many more)<br>
but there you go. Non mains voltage stuff is pretty much a free for
all here.<br>
"Standards" as such, are now being driven through the certification
by suppliers such<br>
as Krone, Molnex et al.<br>
I once spent a slightly bleary eyed day in discussion in Melbourne
on how to manage<br>
Telco connections, having just spent a late night untangling the
shambles created<br>
in a local office by the "Clown with the punch down tool".(Obviously
colour-blind)<br>
And I wasn't even able to recover sufficient copper for beer.<br>
But, after comparing notes with my Aussie compatriots, they were
kind enough<br>
to buy me one, or two.<br>
That eased the pain.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Alan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/06/2013 9:21 p.m., Ramsay, Paul
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<div>I would suggest using a registered cabler who will adhere to
the ACA Cabling Rules</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Paul</div>
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On 11/06/2013, at 5:45 PM, "Alan Maher" <<a
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<div><span>I can sympathise with this scenario, having seen it
only too often over</span><br>
<span>the years.</span><br>
<span>From the early morning call to establish why the network
is down, and then to</span><br>
<span>wander around trying to establish which of the overnight
cleaners "accidentally"</span><br>
<span>knocked out a co-ax terminator from the wall outlet in a
token ring set up.</span><br>
<span>To the MD who thought that co-ax outlet might be an
aerial input for his new</span><br>
<span>4.5" portable tv so he could watch the cricket.</span><br>
<span>To the many companies whose server set up just "growed
like topsy" and live and dead</span><br>
<span>equipment lived alongside the biggest pile of spaghetti
in the world.</span><br>
<span>Where modems and patch connections were all laying
around the floor in a spare</span><br>
<span>office recently vacated by the photo copier.</span><br>
<span>Where offices were connected by Cat 5 punched through a
hole in the suspended ceiling</span><br>
<span>and dragged around in all directions (including through
the A/C ducting) by the tame</span><br>
<span>sparky.</span><br>
<span>Being called in by the BIG suppliers, as the client
refused to pay their outrageous, inflated fees</span><br>
<span>to tidy the mess up, and they in turn refused to
guarantee their big iron unless the mess was sorted.</span><br>
<span>And of course, there was a Mexican standoff re payment
for said Big Iron.</span><br>
<span>To the A/C guys who discovered the problem was all the
"crazy" blues wires that were covering the</span><br>
<span>the inlet on their A/C unit- and simply cut them all
off.</span><br>
<span>To the large corporation with a head office/warehouse
scenario who seemed to have around 200</span><br>
<span>outlets, but at a rough count , some 500 cables coming
into a big mess on the floor.</span><br>
<span>Apparently, when the tame sparky ran a new cable, and it
didn't work, they just called him back to</span><br>
<span>run another one.</span><br>
<span>A quick visit showed said tame sparky had cable tied all
his data cables to warehouse to the 3inch</span><br>
<span>thick, 3 phase, mains cable to the warehouse.</span><br>
<span>Yes, it all worked well (sometimes), until such time as
the warehouse plugged in all their electric fork hoists to</span><br>
<span>be re-charged.</span><br>
<span>And my favourite is still- "Can't you just put in one of
those raised floors like the big guys have</span><br>
<span>and cover it all up?"</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>Yes, I am showing my age, but most of it is common
sense.</span><br>
<span>Sorting out the mess afterwards can take a bit of time,
but it is mostly a question of following</span><br>
<span>a plan (any plan will do, so long as it can be
documented and explained).</span><br>
<span>Colour coding cables helps, and nothing beats a label
printer to attach labels to the cables</span><br>
<span>so that everything is simple- input-output etc.</span><br>
<span>The key word is "Structured cabling"- google it, and you
will find untold resources and opinions.</span><br>
<span>The rest is just plain hard work and untangling
spaghetti.</span><br>
<span>Having a sense of humour, and an account at the scrap
metal place for beer money obtained</span><br>
<span>from all the surplus copper helps.</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>Have fun.</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>Alan Maher</span><br>
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<span>On 11/06/2013 12:56 p.m., Ross Wheeler wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi all.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I've been asked to assist with
the redesign of a medium-sized business's IT
infrastructure and am looking for any actual standards or
guidelines relevant to Australia. The current site is
quite a mess, ad-hoc additions and changes over many years
and multiple people in charge.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Particular issues would include
such things as OH&S requirements, best-practice for
server/comms/cable racks, server room considerations
against most risks etc.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Photos of some "well thought
out" installations and racks would be beneficial.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>To be clear, this is not a
multi-million dollar datacentre. It's an entity of a
couple of hundred staff with perhaps 2 or 3 racks of
servers and comms gear, probably one additional enclosure
for cable termination, patch etc.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>They want to depart from the old
"spaghetti everywhere" environment to something more
managable. Suspended floors and rack doors to simply cover
the mess up (but leave the underlying problems) are not
where they want to be. They're sick of downtime and
network instability because the wrong cable has been
unplugged, or in accessing one cable another has been
dislodged. Of avoidable downtime because nobody can find
or follow anything to fix or work around a problem, etc.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Anyone got anything they can
share?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>TIA,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>RossW</span><br>
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