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You guys have worked around it. Siemon makes an S110 or S210 product that terminates 100,200,300 pairs in a rack mount strip. S110-db1 is one of the Cat-5e parts for 100 pairs in a 1U arrangement.

Carl

Hal how about a picture of Hillary Clinton , no one would touch that .

Except an IT guy.

-Hal

That is funny Hal my friend an I got a good laugh . He has also dealt with these pimple faced IT people .

Sorry for the late response. This Siemon solution looks like as good as it will get. The S210 on their website says it "exceeds category 6 specifications". So that should cover the CAT6 wiring and S110 would cover the CAT5e wiring. I'll be honest that I think I've only seen a handful of 110 blocks used in my travels. All of them were for phone wiring. I'm much more comfortable with 66 blocks, but obviously those wouldn't work in this situation.

To clarify for everyone, the 1st floor is a copier room with limited space. It originally was the IT closet until things were moved out. My friend and colleague is the "pimply IT weenie" who asked me to bid on the job. I can understand why he'd rather have all network equipment in a locked 2nd floor dedicated room/closet for IT where there is going to be one big UPS installed soon (just needs batteries and 30A circuit installed). The client is a non-profit, lots of people coming and going. They do have a licensed electrician that helps out time to time, and he can run any wiring that absolutely has to be replaced in the finished walls. Some of the existing runs have some "creative" connections when I took a brief look above the small drop ceiling (end connectors to couplers) in one area of the office. They use VoIP phones and many of them won't work on PoE, only link up at 100Mbit, etc due to various wiring issues.

We have a large customer that has probably 40 IDFs of which data cabling has been extended from 110 blocks to patch panels on relay racks. Some closets use cat5e 25 pair cabling with amphenol connections to patch panels that have amphenol connections and some have just 4 pair cabling for each connection. It's cat5e and they use POE no problem. No problems having drops certify with my Fluke DSX either. Certainly any hacked in cabling from sparky could cause an issue at your site.....

Before touching anything I would make them get a list of existing problem locations to you so you aren't chasing your tail trying to fix problems that were already there.

Update:

I got the cabling done for the annex building which had fewer cabling issues than I suspect will be at the main building. Main building will be done at another point. I looked high and low for Siemons branded 110 Blocks, but Graybar was sold out, and two local electrical suppliers don't carry it. Amazon doesn't have it either. My colleague ended up getting Panduit branded 110 blocks and they worked out good. Here's a photo of my work.



Left hand side of the block are the new cables coming from the new rack in the basement/1st floor. Right hand side are the existing runs to jacks on the 2nd floor/main floor. Most of those cables had no slack and some were CAT6, so I did the best I could with leaving a small loop at the bottom. I hate mixing category wires but that is what was dealt to me. Plugged in all of the PoE phones, PoE accesspoints, and a copier and everything came up. The brown wire is a thermostat wire or something else. I left it alone as it wasn't something I needed to touch. Thanks for the advice all.

Nice job!

-Hal

Very nice!