My first post . . . mostly a network guy but have been placed/forced into this situation.

I have a T1 smart jack located in a building wiring closet. The company that's paying for it insists on placing their router in their wiring closet and wants the line from the smart jack extended there. Initially someone from my company told them that it would be no problem but they were making the assumption that the RJ45 on the smart jack provided an Ethernet connection and since it doesn't, it makes things a little more , um , interesting.

Long story short, I think I can get it done by doing the following: connect the smart jack to a port on a patch panel in the wiring closet where the smart jack is physically located. That patch panel connects to another panel in another wiring closet via a 100-pair telephone cable (I've got to get to this other closet since it has the connection point to get to the company's own wiring closet). To make this work, I'll use two ports on the patch panel since a single pair from the 100-pair cable is punched down for each port and based on the posts I read, the T1 needs two pair.

From the 2nd closet, I'll have a cable to another patch panel that gets me to a data port in the company's closet. And I'll finish it by having a final patch cable from the data port to their router.

Will this work? What distance limits do I have? I've seen 200 meters by reading other posts and its close but I'm within that.

Would it be better to repunch the ports for the 100-pair cabling to tie 2 pairs to the same port or keep them as they are and split the pairs on the patch cable? I'll be using 568b patch cables to make all the connections.

Any words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.