Here's the scenario - we have an AT&T 50M circuit handed off to us on 100M copper Ethernet. It's on us to get this circuit to our data room approx. 800ft. away, where it will connect to AT&T's router, which will break it out into data and a couple PRI's. Obviously, this is way over the 330 foot limit for Cat5e Ethernet, so we've narrowed it down to a couple options,
A. Run Cat6 the entire length and use something like these on each end,
B. Pull fiber (6 or 12 strand armored?) the entire way, using a basic Ethernet switch on each end which has both fiber/SFP's and copper.
Option B is over twice the cost of A, but has just about every other advantage besides. The cost alone is making it very hard to sell option B to the powers that be. My main concern, besides someone cutting our Cat6 runs, is running into a problem where AT&T refuses to troubleshoot because we've converted their signal into something else/unsupported. I suppose we could install switches every 300 feet too, but that introduces many more points of failure.
So, what would you do? Or is there another solution, considerations I'm not thinking of?
Thanks, -Joe
A. Run Cat6 the entire length and use something like these on each end,
B. Pull fiber (6 or 12 strand armored?) the entire way, using a basic Ethernet switch on each end which has both fiber/SFP's and copper.
Option B is over twice the cost of A, but has just about every other advantage besides. The cost alone is making it very hard to sell option B to the powers that be. My main concern, besides someone cutting our Cat6 runs, is running into a problem where AT&T refuses to troubleshoot because we've converted their signal into something else/unsupported. I suppose we could install switches every 300 feet too, but that introduces many more points of failure.
So, what would you do? Or is there another solution, considerations I'm not thinking of?
Thanks, -Joe