Wiring Project Team
Meeting 2/16/96
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Attending: Peter Brouwer, Tony DiTullio, Garnet Barrigar, Brenda Bennett,
Dave Brower, Carmen Casolara, Bob Jewett, Justin Sipher
Last meeting: 1/31/96 Next meeting: 2/21/96
Agenda:
1. Review of DEC site visit
2. Review summer housing schedule
3. Other items
4. Designing our Electronics
5. Around the table (comments)
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1. Review of DEC site visit
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A. DEC will submit a formal quotation on the of wiring project by mid-March (4
weeks)
B. Questions raised during visit:
(1). Do we have to use metal raceways in the hallways?
Yes. We will go with metal raceways, particularly in Knowles 5th.
(2). Can 8"x8" access panels be cut in the ceilings of student closets?
If so, do the cover plates have to meet any special specs (tamper-proof?
fire-proof?)
Tony indicated that anything but wood should be acceptable, but we will
need to inform him of the materials to be used prior to installation.
What was suggested was white, sheet metal held in place with screws.
In the hallways, a white thin metal plate held in place with screws
through angle "iron" should be sufficient.
Carm will contact Bill Todd and inform him of this.
(3). Need to know how to wire Lehman "houses" - to be determined.
(4). DEC has suggested using EMT "conduit" within student rooms to house
cable to each faceplate vs. wiremold. They claim that Geneseo saved
over $200,000 on their latest wiring project by using EMT. The
consideration is appearance vs. cost. We will need to consult with
John Horan on this issue. Bob will check with Geneseo to find out
what the determining factors were in their decision to go with EMT.
(5). Will the contractors be restricted to certain hours for working
in the buildings? -- John Horan
(6). Can the contractors have one room in each building for storage during
the project? -- John Horan
C. Should we all existing network access in the residence buildings to 10BaseT?
Yes. We will replace all current 10Base2 (thin wire) with 10BaseT and
the necessary electronics. This will affect some offices/rooms in the
5 residential buildings, as well as each of the student computing centers.
D. Should we activate phones lines installed in Draime/Van Housen (dial tone)?
Yes, our department will take the responsibility of activating dial tone on
any new cabling that will be used for phone service.
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2. Review summer housing schedule
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A. Reviewed summer housing schedule prepared by John Horan. We will need to
know where residents will be located in Knowles North.
Justin suggested putting the housing schedule on a calendar so that we
can plan/coordinate schedule for effectively.
B. Bob has written to Connie Zelinski, Bill Donahue and Neil Johnson to inform
them about the project and to ask them to coordinate all summer residence
hall plans with the project team.
C. Possible Room Modifications for Handicap Students
Tony mentioned that hew will be changing 6 or more rooms in Bowman South
(Hi-Rise) to accomodate handicap students. The closets will be moved in
the rooms. He will get back to the project team when more details are
known about the number and the location of the rooms.
D. Building Maintenance/Cleaning Schedule
DEC has asked us to check on the residential building maintenance schedule
so that cleaning is done *after* they are through installing cable. Tony
suggested contacting Gary Collins and coordinating the schedules with him.
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3. Other items
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A. Wiring Closet Renovations
Reviewed Jerry Beaulieu's memo on prices for renovating rooms for new
wiring closet locations. Tony asked that we coordinate with him on when
these renovations will needed. Carm thinks there will only be a couple
of rooms that will need to be worked on soon. The rest should wait until
the cable installers are done so that they can move equipment into the
rooms before wall, etc. are put in place.
B. Parking
We contact Public Safety to coordinate parking for the contractor. Tony
indicated that there were no planned maintenance projects for the parking
lots that would affect this project other than painting.
We should contact Tony if the contractor does want to park a
tractor-trailer near a building.
We should coordinate with Jerry Beaulieu about workers parking their cars
in the lots since painting will be going on.
C. Drop Shipments
Tony said that any drop shipments for the contractors should go directly to
the site, *not* through Receiving.
D. Wiring Janitor Offices
Tony said that he met with Bill Fisher on this and they decided *not* to
wire janitor offices for data.
E. Keys
It was suggested that we request a special key to a specific door to give
the contractors access to a building they are working in. The contractor
should be allowed to select the door they want to use.
Discussion on how to get keys back from the contractors included
withholding final payment until they were returned, or using a deposit.
We should coordinate this with Jean Green.
F. Doors to residential buildings
John Horan should be involved in the decision about whether to pull wire
to doors that may use a card reader in the future.
G. PACES questions
PACES will need to let us know if they want cable pulled to their areas
in the Lehman Dining Hall. This facility would require the installation
of a rack, a fiber interface (hub?) and data cabling. This would add
substantially to the cost per faceplate passed on to PACES.
We still need to pin down the exact number of vending areas and washing
machines, etc.
Bowman Commissary - We need to know if the *new* Bowman Commissary will
need data and telephone services. That will be an added cost item.
Knowles MPR - To add data access to this proposed facility, we will need
to install a rack, a fiber interface (hub?) and data cabling. Peter
suggested we prepare for this possibility, but that the decision to do
it should wait until the plans for this facility are better known.
G. Asbestos
Tony has a book in his office that identifies the location of all asbestos
within campus buildings. DEC will only subcontract with companies using
asbestos-aware workers.
H. Sisson 3rd Floor Residences
It was agreed that this floor will *not* be part of this wiring project.
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4. Designing our Electronics
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A. Key design/development project team will be Justin Sipher (lead), Garnet
Barrigar, Dave Brouwer, Carmen Casolara and Bob Jewett.
B. Cabletron sent a list of questions that should be addressed as we consider
the design of the "electronics" (hubs, repeaters, routers, etc) for this
project. The Design Team will use these and meet next week (2/21/96) to
begin working on this part of the project.
See SUNY Potsdam's response to network design questions.
C. Other issues to be addressed include:
- management capabilities
- integration with our existing electronics (the fiber FB issue)
- vendor reputation
- scalability/expandability of vendor's products
D. Current vendors being consider include: Cisco, 3Com, Cabletron, DEC
Bay Networks (AT&T)
E. Carm and Garnet stressed the need to get training on how to manage the
electronics (hubs).
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5. Around the table (comments)
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No new items were raised. (whew!)
REFERENCES:
SUNY Potsdam's response to network design questions
Summer housing schedule prepared by John Horan.
Gartner Group conference call