We have a 5 story building that currently has an IDF closet on each floor which serves the devices on that individual floor. Each floor connects back to the building distribution/core switch on the 5th floor. The problem we're having is that these IDFs are absolutely horrible to work in. Most of the racks are 10ft in the air and you need a ladder just to patch in a cable. Patch panels literally hanging down from the ceiling by rope. They're poorly lit, each having just a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling. No climate control or air filtering so they're luke-warm and filthy.
Unfortunately, there isn't room to expand the current IDFs and there is no room on any of the floors to make new IDFs except on the Basement floor or 5th floor, so my question is - is there any particular design reason why we couldn't just run all new drops for each of the floors to a single, large, purpose-build MDF either on the basement or 5th floors? Each floor has about 12ft high ceilings so I can't imagine cable length would be an issue, unless I'm overlooking something.
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