Before and After - LAN Cleanup

[SaigonK]

Got our Co-Op to clean out the closets on all our subnets. (yes i didnt want to do it, so made him do it🙂)


BEFORE-1
BEFORE-2
BEFORE-3



AFTER-1
AFTER-2
AFTER-3

Now to update that Rat's Nest I call a Data Center! 😀

 

[WannaFly]

so....much....blue....
If you ever redo that, maybe you should use different colors for each subnet? 😀

Anyway, the cleanup looks real good, i get to do this when my company moves to their new building.

 

[SaigonK]

I guess I could use one color for each subnet, but those pictures are for only one closet...one subnet.
In my building alone I have 10 subnets. (9 for PC's and servers - and one for wireless LAN)

 

[spidey07]

If you ever redo that, maybe you should use different colors for each subnet?

Nooooooooooo. No rainbow closets.

Adopt some kind of color standard - like red for crossover, green for WAN/telecom and blue for 10/100/1000 ethernet.

 

[saimike]

Originally posted by: spidey07

If you ever redo that, maybe you should use different colors for each subnet?

Nooooooooooo. No rainbow closets.

Adopt some kind of color standard - like red for crossover, green for WAN/telecom and blue for 10/100/1000 ethernet.

too many colors is bad ... but identifying the type of cable is quite useful.

i've been to quite a few MTSO's and i want to say that they r all very very neat. everything is labeled, cable-tied and routed in a nice bundle ... so the 'before' pics above look like a nightmare to me, i dont understand how anyone can let it happen on a live system.

 

[SaigonK]

It happens when no one is paying attention to it.
Most people get someone to come in and clean up the mess.

Figure i take care of this lan, 10 subnets and over 80 switches. 150 windows servers and 150 Novell servers, our wireless lan, a 30 server citrix farm plus backups for all of these (just at my site alone), global LAN duties and global server duties.

I allowed the desktop team into my closets to plugin cables as they needed and the "before" pics are what i got for my idea of making it easier on them and me...safe to say it wont be happening anymore.

I do use different color lines now (red for printers - Yellow for RoadRunner connections for visitors, green for wireless access points.)