It's official. The new internal network project here at SFP is officially under way. This last weekend several of us (led by our Director of IT, Michael Frick) got started on our new networks. The baseline of the project is our new ISP, Comcast, which gives us over 3x overall data speeds compared to our last provider.
Additionally, we ran nearly 1000 feet of new cat5 cable over three floors of our agency to increase capacity, network performance and reliability. The new network is almost entirely gigabit which is well worth it for larger internal file transfers!
Starting off, our APC rack is housing a Netgear ProSafe 24-port gigabit switch, two Dell PowerEdge 2650 web servers, two TalkSwitch phone systems (the 240vs and voip-based 244vs), a second Netgear ProSafe 8-port gigabit switch and a wireless Polycom unit all with an APC Smart-UPS 1400 battery backup system. We will be primarily using the rack for internal operations here at SFP.
Our staff is enjoying the increased network speed and reliability thanks to a great job by Michael and the rest of the team. The next step will be expanding our land lines to keep up with our increasing call volume, which will hopefully be up and running by the end of the week.