Hi, I've been tasked with a pretty big project that is going to be a first for me. We have a site that going to be needing a total re-doing of the comms room in terms of rack/cab design layout, cabling and power. The current design kind of has everything spread everywhere (hence the need for the job), so, there are 3 cabs and the distribution switch stack is in cab 1 along with another access layer switch stack, SD-WAN routers are in cab 2 and the 3rd cab is a server cab with a UPS at the bottom and another switch stack at the back of the cab.
What I would like to do ideally is have everything within best practices (clearly), so coloured coded cables, switches that have redundant power supplies being plugged into different PDU's in the same cab (2 PDU's per cab) and have a "top of row" design where the access layer switch stacks are at the top and servers are in the bottom/middle of the cab and cab 1 having the distribution switches and SD-WAN routers in them along with the ADVA's.
This is my project so its my call at the end of the day but I know one of the seniors who did another main site of ours split up the distribution switches (and I think the SD-WAN routers to) into different cabs and have them plugged into different PDU's than way (redundancy apparently incase a circuit goes for the entire cab)
Any thoughts of the above and any best practices I might be missing out?
Cheers
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