That's nothing. I was in a business office colo facility in San Jose in the 2001 timeframe, that had a (as I recall) 12-rack long patch panel setup for the 2 or 3 floors they occupied. All the phones and LANs used the same panels. They'd used red cable for everything. There was no - zero - cable management. There was a literally hand-deep (tip of my fingers to my wrist) spaghetti mess of wire from side to side, top to bottom, across the whole set of racks. Going in every direction. No cable in the entire room had a label on either end. The LAN switches didn't properly handle spanning tree, so if you looped it, under the tangle of wires the whole room's switches would all start blinking in unison, which was your sign to unplug what you just plugged in and figure out what went wrong. I walked in, examined the situation, went to Frys, purchased green and blue cables (for phone and net, respectively, did my new switch, gateway, and phone hookup, labeled both ends of all my cables, and fled. New owners took over as we were leaving for our permanent office six months later. They had a crew in to rewire it. I walked in and was pulling my switch and gateway out, and they commented that mine were the only properly done cables, and profusely thanked us for giving them at least a few ports they could identify both ends of... On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Tom Morris <blueneon@gmail.com> wrote:
Radio Free Asia, Washington DC.
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Just remember, you're probably in better shape than them. If you look carefully on the right side you can see where some cables were left abandoned in place because they'd become unremovable from that giant set of dreadlocks.
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