Friday, April 24, 2020

Network upgrades during covid-19

I haven’t searched this thread to see if something like this has been posted, but curious to get thoughts on it. I work for a health care system and my manager is pushing our team to get depreciated replacements completed during this time. The thought process is for areas where we have finance/admin/non elective surgeries that it would be easier to get the downtime. We pretty much run chassis everywhere in our environment and racking/unracking a chassis by ones self is doable but difficult. My manager is pushing to put 2 people in a comm closet for the upgrade, there’s no way we can practice social distancing in a comm closet. He has even told me personally that it doesn’t matter if you wear gloves or not because the virus can be on your gloves or on your hands, doesn’t matter and you can be within 6 feet of people with a paper mask. Are others in networking facing the same issue? Would you work in a comm closet with a co-worker to replace network gear? Just curious to get some opinions on the matter



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