IDT688+Group+Project+M3

//Facility Network Design Project// Michael DeBakey, Mary Hall, Mindi Phelps





Bel Aire Elementary School, a California Distinguished School, is one of three (3) elementary schools that comprise the Reed Union School District, Tiburon, California. Reed Union is a K-6 district. Located on the Tiburon Peninsula 20 minutes across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Fransisco, Bel Aire consists of 20 classrooms and other special facilities completed in 1960. During the time from 1960-1980, with significant state and community support, the school expanded its facilities and programs with focus on individual needs and keeping class size at or below 25. The parents of the students in the community are professionals and artisans ranging in income from low to upper middle-class to affluent. They are "well-educated, socially aware, and politically active."

Current state funding for new construction has dried up, so the plan is to update three(3) of the seven(7) buildings on Bel Aires elementary 37-acre campus to bring them up to code, especially to remove asbestos, upgrade for accessibility, improve earthquake safety, and provide for increased integration of technology into the curriculum of this school.

The following proposal deals with that portion of the project that deals with computer technology infrastructure. Other components of the renovation are included in other sections of the whole proposal. Each building is specified separately to allow for cost basis accounting.

[[image:captured.jpg align="center"]] [|Reed Schools Technology Plan]
=//Technology Infrastructure Proposal for Bel Aire Elementary School Buildings D, E, and G//=

This building houses the art and music facilities.


 * Cabling**
 * This building will house the district MDF.
 * One (1) IDF facility will also be located in the same room as the MDF facility.
 * No additional backbone cabling will be needed.
 * Category 6 UTP ethernet cabling will be used for runs to the classroom wall jacks.
 * Category 6 UTP ethernet patch cables will be used to connect individual workstations to outlets as well as cross-connects from the network electronics to the patch panel.
 * There will be four (4) runs per outlet. See attached drawings for exact location of all wired jacks and wireless access points (WAPs) for Building D, the art and music facilities.


 * Data Closets**


 * The size of the building warrants only one (1) IDF, which will also be shared with the MDF facility located toward the rear of the storage closet in the middle of the building.
 * Two (2) 48-port DP6 Plus category 6 rated patch panels from Panduit will be used.
 * Two (2) 19” floor-mounted racks should be used, with fibre and copper patch panels residing at the top and network electronics mounted directly underneath. One rack would be for the building MDF, and the other rack would be for the district MDF.
 * This closet should be kept at a constant temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of no less than 30 percent and no more than 50 percent.
 * The facility should be secured with a limited access key or card entry system for IT and plant management personnel only.


 * Bandwidth**


 * Ten (10) mbit of bandwidth should be delivered to the district MDF in this building via Comcast Commercial Services.
 * Edge ports on the switches should allow for 10/100 mbit Ethernet connectivity from the workstations.
 * Uplink ports on the switches should allow for gigabit or ten gigabit interconnectivity using fibre optic or copper cabling.


 * Servers**


 * A Dell PowerEdge 6800 will serve as file server for the school with
 * Ten (10) 146 gigabyte 15,000 RPM hard drives with eight (8) gigabytes of RAM.


 * Wireless**


 * Two wireless access points will be located within the building, one per classroom located above the ceiling.
 * These access points will use Power over Ethernet (PoE) for electrical connectivity.
 * Cisco lightweight wireless access points will be used in combination with the Cisco SecureACS authentication product located at the district MDF facilities.


 * Network Electronics**


 * For the district MDF rack, one HP ProCurve 8100fl core switch should be used.
 * The Internet uplink, plus each building on campus will be patched through from the fibre optic patch panel or Comcast demarc to the core switch.
 * For the building MDF rack, one 24-port HP ProCurve 3500yl layer 3 switch should be used, which would be used for OSPF or static routing back to the core, as well as downlink connectivity to the edge switches within the MDF/IDF.
 * Two 48-port HP ProCurve 2650 PoE edge switches should be used.
 * All electronic devices would be located directly underneath the fibre and copper patch panels.


 * Testing and Documentation**


 * Runs will be numbered according to the convention MDF-XXX-YY, where MDF is the facility identification parameter, XXX=the three digit room number, and YY=the identification parameter for that specific drop.
 * After the drops are terminated on both ends, testing for parity and wiring mismatches will be done on the Ethernet cables using an Ideal cable tester for electronics.
 * Single mode fibre optic cabling should be tested on the 1310 and 1550 nm wavelengths.
 * Once electronics are connected on both ends of a cable, in-depth testing can be performed with a Fluke Networks cable tester. Checks for CRC errors on uplink and backbone cabling should also be performed at this point as well.


 * Justification**

Elementary buildings should be outfitted with the latest technology with respect to network infrastructure. Single mode fibre optic cabling for the backbone will be used rather than multi-mode in order to be ready for emerging technologies. Art and music classrooms should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in full motion video and sound production and performance, so numerous category six drops will be used in order to plan for the proliferation of more workstations in the classroom with the possibility of faster gigabit or ten gigabit connections in the future. Two wireless access points provide for redundancy and mobility for staff and student workstations should the school move to 1:1 laptops. Considerations that went into the determination of location and numbers of jacks were the locations of water sources, windows, cabinetry, and the "teaching wall."

**Bel Aire Elementary School – Building E**


This building houses the library and classrooms.


 * Cabling**
 * 12 strands of single mode outdoor plant fibre optic cabling will be used for the backbone cabling to interconnect the building MDF with the district/elementary campus MDF.
 * An IDF facility shared with the MDF should be located on the first floor, and an additional IDF facility should be located on the second floor.
 * Six (6) strands of single mode indoor plant fibre optic cabling will be used for the backbone cabling to interconnect the building MDF with the IDF on the second floor.
 * Category 6 UTP ethernet cabling will be used for runs to the classroom wall jacks
 * Category 6 UTP Ethernet patch cables will be used to connect individual workstations to outlets as well as cross-connects from the network electronics to the patch panel.
 * There will be four (4) runs per outlet.
 * See attached drawings for exact location of all wired jacks and wireless access points (WAPs) for Building E, the library and classroom facilities


 * Data Closets**


 * The size of the building warrants one (1) IDF for each of the two (2) levels.
 * The first floor IDF will also be shared with the MDF facility located in the room marked “Storage #3” on the drawings.
 * The second floor IDF will be located in the room marked “Comm Room” on the drawings.
 * For the first floor MDF/IDF, three (3) 48-port DP6 Plus category 6 rated patch panels from Panduit will be used.
 * For the second floor MDF/IDF, two (2) 48-port DP6 Plus category 6 rated patch panels from Panduit will be used.
 * One (1) 19” floor-mounted rack should be used in each IDF, with fibre and copper patch panels residing at the top, respectively, and network electronics mounted directly underneath.
 * These closets should be kept at a constant temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of no less than 30 percent and no more than 50 percent.
 * The facility should be secured with a limited access key or card entry system for IT and plant management personnel only.


 * Bandwidth**
 * One (1) gbit of bandwidth should be delivered to the building MDF via private fibre strands from the district/elementary campus MDF.
 * One (1) gbit of bandwidth should be delivered to the second floor IDF via single mode fibre optic indoor cabling.
 * Edge ports on the switches should allow for 10/100 mbit Ethernet connectivity from the workstations.
 * Uplink ports on the switches should allow for gigabit or ten gigabit interconnectivity using fibre optic or copper cabling.


 * Servers**
 * No servers will be located in this building.


 * Wireless**
 * Eleven (11) wireless access points will be located within the building, one per classroom located above the ceiling.
 * These access points will use Power over Ethernet (PoE) for electrical connectivity.
 * Cisco lightweight wireless access points will be used in combination with the Cisco SecureACS authentication product located at the district MDF facilities.


 * Network Electronics**


 * In the first floor MDF/IDF facility, one 24-port HP ProCurve 3500yl layer 3 switch should be used, which would be used for OSPF or static routing back to the core, downlink connectivity to the edge switches within the MDF/IDF as well as download connectivity to the second floor IDF.
 * For the first floor MDF/IDF, three (3) 48-port HP ProCurve 2650 PoE edge switches should be used.
 * For the second floor IDF, two (2) 48-port HP ProCurve 2650 PoE edge switches should be used.
 * The electronic devices would be located directly underneath the patch panels.


 * Testing and Documentation**


 * Runs homed in the MDF/IDF will be numbered according to the convention MDF-XXX-YY, where MDF is the facility identification parameter, XXX=the three digit room number, and YY=the identification parameter for that specific drop.
 * Runs homed in the second floor IDF will be numbered according to the convention 2A-XXX-YY, where 2A is the facility identification parameter, XXX=the three digit room number, and YY=the identification parameter for that specific drop.
 * After the drops are terminated on both ends, testing for parity and wiring mismatches will be done on the Ethernet cables using an Ideal cable tester for electronics.
 * Single mode fibre optic cabling should be tested on the 1310 and 1550 nm wavelengths.
 * Once electronics are connected on both ends of a cable, in-depth testing can be performed with a Fluke Networks cable tester.
 * Checks for CRC errors on uplink and backbone cabling should also be performed at this point as well.


 * Justification**

The design of this building warrants one IDF per floor as the dimensions of the facility are well within specification for category 6 cabling.Single mode fibre optic cabling for the backbone will be used rather than multi-mode in order to be ready for emerging technologies. The library and classrooms should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in online database access, streaming video and sound performance, so numerous category six drops will be used in order to plan for the proliferation of more workstations in the classroom with the possibility of faster gigabit or ten gigabit connections in the future. Wireless access points provide for redundancy and mobility for staff and student workstations should the school move to 1:1 laptops. Considerations that went into the determination of location and numbers of jacks were the locations of water sources, windows, a mezzanine, cabinetry, and the circulation desk and office. This building also has the additional presence of a concrete retaining wall that forms the inside wall of most of the first floor classrooms. A faux wall will be framed out over the cement wall in order to provide a medium for mounting jacks and space to run cabling "inside" the walls.

**Bel Aire Elementary School – Building G**


This building houses the gymnatorium, stage, cafeteria, faculty work rooms and locker rooms.


 * Cabling**


 * Twelve (12) strands of single mode outdoor plant fibre optic cabling will be used for the backbone cabling to interconnect the building MDF with the district/elementary campus MDF.
 * One (1) IDF facility will be located in the same room as the MDF facility.
 * No additional backbone cabling will be needed.
 * Category 6 UTP ethernet cabling used for runs to the classroom wall jacks will be used.
 * Category 6 UTP Ethernet patch cables will be used to connect individual workstations to outlets as well as cross-connects from the network electronics to the patch panel. There will be four (4) runs per outlet.
 * See attached drawings for exact location of all wired jacks and wireless access points (WAPs).


 * Data Closets**


 * The size of the building warrants only one (1) IDF which will also be share with the MDF facility located toward the rear of the storage closet in the middle of the building.
 * Two (2) 48-port DP6 Plus category 6 rated patch panel from Panduit will be used.
 * One (1) 19” floor-mounted rack should be used, with fibre and copper patch panels residing at the top and network electronics mounted directly underneath.
 * This closet should be kept at a constant temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of no less than 30 percent and no more than 50 percent.
 * The facility will be secured with a limited access key or card entry system for IT and plant management personnel only.


 * Bandwidth**


 * One (1) gbit of bandwidth should be delivered to the building MDF via private fibre strands from the district/elementary campus MDF.
 * Edge ports on the switches should allow for 10/100 mbit Ethernet connectivity from the workstations.
 * Uplink ports on the switches should allow for gigabit or ten gigabit interconnectivity using fibre optic or copper cabling.


 * Servers**


 * No servers would be located in this building.


 * Wireless**


 * Five (5) wireless access points will be located within the building, one (1) per classroom located above the ceiling.
 * Access points will use power over Ethernet for electrical connectivity.
 * Cisco lightweight wireless access points will be used in combination with the Cisco SecureACS authentication product located at the district MDF facilities.


 * Network Electronics**


 * In the MDF/IDF facility, one 24-port HP ProCurve 3500yl layer 3 switch should be used, which would be used for OSPF or static routing back to the core, as well as downlink connectivity to the edge switches within the MDF/IDF.
 * Two (2) 48-port HP ProCurve 2650 PoE edge switches should be used. The electronic devices would be located directly underneath the patch panels.


 * Testing and Documentation**


 * Runs will be numbered according to the convention MDF-XXX-YY, where MDF is the facility identification parameter, XXX=the three digit room number, and YY=the identification parameter for that specific drop.
 * After the drops are terminated on both ends, testing for parity and wiring mismatches will be done on the Ethernet cables using an Ideal cable tester for electronics.
 * Single mode fibre optic cabling should be tested on the 1310 and 1550 nm wavelengths.
 * Once electronics are connected on both ends of a cable, in-depth testing can be performed with a Fluke Networks cable tester.
 * Checks for CRC errors on uplink and backbone cabling should also be performed at this point as well.


 * Justification**

The design of this building warrants one IDF per floor as the dimensions of the facility are well within specification for category 6 cabling.Single mode fibre optic cabling for the backbone will be used rather than multi-mode in order to be ready for emerging technologies. The library and classrooms should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in online database access, streaming video and sound performance, so numerous category six drops will be used in order to plan for the proliferation of more workstations in the classroom with the possibility of faster gigabit or ten gigabit connections in the future. Wireless access points provide for redundancy and mobility for staff and student workstations should the school move to 1:1 laptops. Considerations that went into the determination of location and numbers of jacks were the locations of water sources, windows, a mezzanine, cabinetry, and the circulation desk and office. This building also has the additional presence of a concrete retaining wall that forms the inside wall of most of the first floor classrooms. A faux wall will be framed out over the cement wall in order to provide a medium for mounting jacks and space to run cabling "inside" the walls.


 * Budget**





This wiki was created on a [|Classrooms for the Future] MacBook using information and pictures about [|Bel Aire Elementary School] [|Reed Union School District]. The placement of the wiring paths and outlets were done using PhotoShop Elements. The budget was developed using MS Excel for Mac.
 * Acknowledgments**

This project is a hypothetical proposal created as a requirement for completion of IDT688 Networking and Facilities Management, part of the Instructional Design and Technology Masters and Certification programs offered at Philadelphia University, Lancaster-Lebanon IU#13 site, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It does not in anyway represent a real proposal to be considered for implementation.
 * Disclaimer**