We’ve invested in Smart telecoms as our primary ISP for our office. They will provide primary telecoms and data for the office. The data connection will be via a licensed radio frequency (which took comreq quiet some time to license).

Today is day one of the installation, and the guys have got quiet alot done. Our nearest point of fibre is three rock. The connection will be done via stratex equipment. Yum.

As the office has no line-of-sight from a current standing wall, the stratex dish will be placed on a 1 metre high pole. The foundation and pole were layed today:

Pole-Smart-Day1-1      Pole-Smart-Day1-2

From the dish, cabling and trunking was laid from the roof to our floor. I’m not sure of the type of cabling in use, but it is some sort of co-axial.

cabling-smart-day1

The stratex dish is also on site at present:

dish-smart-day1 dish-smart-day1-2

Finally, the cabling will run down into our floor and into a stratex eclipse, already racked. The eclipse has needs a PSU separate from itself which hasn’t been installed yet.

rack-smart-day1 rack-smart-day1-2

The cabling rolled up in the second picture will be the link to the PSU. Don’t worry the Cisco 515E is being upgraded to an ASA asap :)