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I want to extend it in two years' time, how is that prepared for?
You size it with headroom from the start and you say how much headroom has been left. Headroom in what is expensive to touch later: ducting with a spare conduit, cabinets with space and power available, network electronics with free ports, loops and panels loaded below their capacity, storage and licences with room to grow, and backup power calculated for the extension expected and not for what gets switched on on day one.
That makes the job a little dearer and saves a lot, because the expensive part of an extension is not the equipment: it is opening a ceiling again, cutting into a façade or changing a whole cabinet to fit two cards. The honest conversation is how much headroom you want to pay for, and to have it you need to say where you expect to grow.
And the headroom gets documented, which is the other half of the matter. The drawings and the report have to show what is free and where: how many places are left on each loop, which conduits are empty, how much power is spare in each cabinet. If that is not written down, in two years' time nobody trusts it and cable gets pulled all over again.
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