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- mister711, on 01/25/2008, -3/+200It will get messed up in a few weeks. Always does.
- JDOG, on 01/25/2008, -2/+174Putting the meow back in CAT5.
- Annesgreat, on 01/25/2008, -0/+85Wow, I'm a cable organization amateur, but now I see what the future could hold...
- aliengoods, on 01/25/2008, -0/+63God bless racks
(the ones used for cables are great too) - Fernandou, on 01/25/2008, -3/+65Neat
- acatzr800, on 01/25/2008, -3/+62Zip ties are a bad idea. Besides being one-use, you run the risk of squeezing the life out of the cables if they're too tight and when it comes time to clip them, its easy to get a cable in the process. Velcro cable ties ftw
- ivoices, on 01/25/2008, -5/+61Beautiful.
- inactive, on 01/25/2008, -1/+53I guess this would be Jackson Pollock: http://tinyurl.com/2yax8u (no rickroll)
- Error601, on 01/25/2008, -0/+48I've done all kinds of pretty cabling installing systems. And then a year later you have to swap out hardware and it all gets screwed up.
- cococooky, on 01/25/2008, -0/+40When I worked for the government as an apprentice electrician, I was asked to wire up a fiber optic sign (they hang over freeways here in Australia) I had come from the traffic signal division, where we worked with Phillips and AWA Traffic Controllers that were always neat like the photos you see here. So I wired up this sign all neat and organized - as it should be.
It took me about 4 days, whereas the other apprentice did 2 in that time - and they both looked like birds nests. My supervisor told me I would never make it as a contractor, but it was my sign that was photographed and showcased.
I am now a successful contractor, so he was dead wrong about that. - Dokument, on 01/25/2008, -0/+39OCD geek art. My favorite : )
- quomen, on 01/25/2008, -4/+39Anyone remember this?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3245199407 ... - wiifm69, on 01/25/2008, -0/+32god bless cable ties
- socalrob, on 01/25/2008, -0/+29It's all about the velcro cable holders rather than the traditional Nylon Zip Ties. I saw a few of the setups used them in those pics. It's much easier to replace cables with those. I learned that working for a month in a San Francisco law office doing IT work. They were wiring up a new office, and as new people came in they had to add new IP phones and computers etc... Velcro... an old invention helping the future become clutter free.
- 10goto10, on 01/25/2008, -2/+24This is like Japanese rope bondage, except with servers instead of women. I think I have myself a new fetish.
- Torx, on 01/25/2008, -0/+21an investment of plastic ties (color matching), and velcro ties can go a long way.
there should be a class for cable management in any IT curriculum. - Berkana, on 01/25/2008, -1/+22This one looks cooler: the Barcelona Super Computing Center:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/heavy-metal/marenostrum ... - Dokument, on 01/25/2008, -2/+22I see what you did there.
- rizla420, on 01/25/2008, -0/+16I worked in a mid sized DC that was about 28,000 sq. ft and cabling is always a nightmare. First off zip ties should never be used in server racks because of the possibility of having to swap cables out or run extra cables for new network connectivity. Velcro is the best bet. Zip ties work in the main distribution areas from where your cats sit to the patch panel distribution panels, thats where they're most effective becuase you dont have a lot of change that happens in your patch distribution area.
Lastly looking at the pics where the servers were cabled and zip tied together with hardly any slack is stupid. I didnt see any cable management arms which allow for the servers to be service a lot easier. It looks pretty but is not functional. I hated installing cable management arms on the older servers. Specifically Sun boxes had the worst designed cable management arms. All the new servers out today HP's, IBMS, SUN have very easy to implement cable management arms. I'd suggest whoever is in the DC biz that installs servers to use the cable management arms and run your cables to the lenght of those. General rule of thumb is to give yourself an extra 3ft of cabling to accommodate the arm. - Emused, on 01/25/2008, -0/+16I guess you would classify my punch down closet as abstract art.
- quomen, on 01/25/2008, -2/+16Sorry for the hijack but just in case it's down for people.
(this is the non-blog spam gallery)
http://nw1.gmotion.us/gallery/albums.php - gak001, on 01/25/2008, -0/+14A Mac Fanboy's wet dream.
- K4Lic0, on 01/25/2008, -0/+14Very true. I work in pro audio and rebuilt a system a few months ago. The previous person used zip ties for all the cabling. The worst is when you have to replace ONE cable and the rest are fine.
- blackmage439, on 01/25/2008, -1/+14I promised myself I wouldn't cry...
On the other hand, it may look nice, but just try and replace a bad cable with a setup like that. Trust me, what may appear to be chaos in a disastrously unorganized telcom closet is actually the easiest to deal with. It's much more difficult to bring order back to chaos once you unbundle those wires... - woohhaa, on 01/25/2008, -0/+12Yea the first time someone adds a cable and says "Eh I'll organize them later."
- frenchi, on 01/25/2008, -0/+12That indian guy has a mullet.
- cphelps, on 01/25/2008, -0/+11Velcro is still easier :)
- darkcthulhu, on 01/25/2008, -0/+10Yeah when they have to remove one cable.
- HalFTW, on 01/25/2008, -0/+10InfiniBand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand
- techwrekfix, on 01/25/2008, -0/+9I need to go now. I have a lot of work to do in my data center. A lot of work.
- Falldog, on 01/25/2008, -0/+9You know, if customers would take the time to actually cable this cleanly, then maintain that for the life of the hardware, my life would be so much easier.
- masonreloaded, on 01/25/2008, -0/+9Duggmirror caught it: http://duggmirror.com/design/Cabling_As_Art/
- doublsh0t, on 01/25/2008, -1/+10they're the Michaelangelos of nerds
- kurfu, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7The whole point of "cat-5" cable is to limit this crosstalk by induction that you are referring to. Inside the sleeve are 4 pairs of wires, each pair is tightly twisted together to dampen the magnetic field created by the flow of current through the wire, this limiting signal induced into neighboring wires.
- kurfu, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Those are pretty.... but... what happens when one needs to make a change for some reason? (defective port, troubleshooting, whatever...) There is zero slack in any of those cables.
- phre3k187, on 01/25/2008, -1/+8YOU KICK MY DOG
- jtorkbob, on 01/25/2008, -0/+6Interesting, hadn't heard of it. Seems it has since dropped to #47.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_X_%28computing ... - Lenny, on 01/25/2008, -0/+6Inspiring.
- computergod, on 01/25/2008, -0/+610 Teraflops got you top 3 back then eh?
The current highest is 596 TFlops.
http://www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100
Used to make more efficient nuclear weapons. - chingy1788, on 01/25/2008, -1/+7My friend works as an electrical engineer for Energy Australia, I look into his computer system, its just a mess of cables...
- cphelps, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6If they were truly OCD they would have used cable ties that were the same color as the cable.
Amateurs /s - rizla420, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5I guess i did over state my position not taking your case into consideration, but I guess what i'm referring to is your standard ISP, Hosting providers, general business datacenters (I worked at a financial company in their dc). The environment is very mixed and systems are always coming in and out, things break you dont throw the box out, you replace the parts becuase we had extensive SLA with the vendors. With that kind of an environment, hardwiring everything is hardly ideal.
- chrisbosh123, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6This one actually looks like a spinal cord... awesome!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2216487046_b7c ... - Nth3nSum, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5Looks like Virginia tech is now listed as 108th instead of 3rd in 2003 ...talk about shrinkage for your e-pnis
- Jewbacca311, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6Meh... not enough tentacle pr0niness for my liking
- TnTBass, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4Take the time to do it right the first time saves countless hours in the future fixing issues arising from half-assing your work.
Want to come in and re-cable the servers/network rats nest I walked into when I started my job? - kbull, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4A thing of beauty and the way things should look if you do it correctly from the start. Still, I'd like to see the front side of those patch panels, because I guarantee they are nowhere near as organized!
- diggduggjoe, on 01/25/2008, -1/+5I practically creamed myself. Those pure lines are beautiful. However, like every virgin, it will have its cherry popped and eventually become messier. Hopefully, may the cables be true and alterations few.
I remember the worse installation I ever saw. It was a school done by the principal. He just strung long cables and had them drop out of the ceiling where he removed the ceiling tile. They just fell to the floor and ran up to the hubs on the floor near the sever. Yes, they had hubs and they had more than three hops so many systems were barely working, if at all.
The guy we had come in from our top notch cabling company literally gasped. He had to hold back the laughter. It was great after the upgrade, but I would hate to see it today, over ten years later. - tian2992, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4OMFG, those cables are raping the servers!
- CryptiniteDemon, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4The man knows what he's talking about. I do small multimedia installations and even those get messy as hell after the first time you have to replace something. Everyone always makes them pretty but never thinks about how easy it is to modify. Unless they use Velcro, in the end it's gonna look like *****.
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