Office relocation – An IT guy’s perspective

DWH will be expanding its operations and will therefore be relocating its Philippine office in a couple of weeks. We’ve kept our hands quite busy with the office relocation project. We’ve currently leased two floors (3rd and 4th) from a building across the street from our current office location. And a lot of renovation activities are currently ongoing as of this writing. You can see from the 3rd-floor snapshots taken from the relocation site last December 2006 that there has been a lot of renovation and civil work done.

We’ll be going for a hybrid network this time. It’ll be a mix of Wireless (or WiFi) and traditional ‘wired’ networking (10/100/1000BaseT).

One challenge we faced was to design and provide a scalable, reliable, fast, and secure, yet cost-effective (yes, there always has to be a hitch), networking environment. And since we plan to have a wireless environment, there were a lot of performance-related issues and security concerns that we had to factor in with our design.

Barring any unforeseen delays, we hope to relocate everyone by the 2nd week of February. So this means we have to get the data center, network, telephony, and security infrastructures up and running without a hitch. Oh boy.