When I started this Job coming up on 10 years ago we had one server and very little equipment. The network has grown substantially and I have moved all of the servers and everything I could from a phone closet to an actual office that has been converted into a data center with dedicated cooling. Everything now resides in the data center with the exception of my switches/ routers and Phone equipment basically due the fact that this closet is where all of the office's voice and data cabling terminates.
I currently have 2 Cat6 lines connecting the Data Center with the Phone closet so the entire network rides on those two lines.
I realize this is not what you would want but I have been living with it for years and I really want it out of the closet. For the data lines my idea is to run and equal amount of Cat6 lines between the two rooms and post punch blocks on both sides.
If I were to do that I would have 2 cat6 punch blocks in the phone closet. one going to the nodes on the network and one going to the data center. Would it be acceptable to just patch cord those 2 blocks together to ultimately terminate in the data center? if not what would be the best way to get my cat6 cable into the data center aside from re-cabling the entire building?
Any ideas are appreciated