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Data Centers

Server room cabling nightmare

By Bill Detwiler October 17, 2005, 1:25 AM PDT on Twitter billdetwiler

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Server room cabling nightmare

What I started with

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What I started with

Although wireless technologies can reduce the cable clutter hidden behind many desks, server rooms remain a haven for power cords, network cables, and peripheral wiring. Unfortunately, many server rooms are built with little or no regard for cable organization. Such a lack of planning can quickly turn an orderly environment into a cabling nightmare.

Our Server room cabling nightmare gallery chronicles a project that brings order to cable chaos.

Just a complete mess of spaghetti.

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Server room cabling nightmare

Another view of the start

Another view of the start

Plainly someone did not know how to do cabling.

Server room cabling nightmare

Tops of the racks

Tops of the racks

Many 35-foot and 50-foot cables were run from rack to rack because the people who installed the wiring did not have the sense to order the correct lengths and used what they had.

Server room cabling nightmare

Cables all removed

Cables all removed

Half of these bins did not exist prior to the start of uncabling the mess.

Server room cabling nightmare

After removal

After removal

This is how it all starts. Nice and clean. No idiotic mess of spaghetti!

Server room cabling nightmare

More after removal

More after removal

My that looks so good!

Server room cabling nightmare

Only power and network

Only power and network

This is all that belongs on top of a rack in my opinion. These will be neatly coiled up before any wiring gets put back in.

Server room cabling nightmare

All my neat little bins

All my neat little bins

All nice and neat and tucked away where they belong. Once all the wiring is completed, most of this will be given to other people

Server room cabling nightmare

Everything re-racked

Everything re-racked

Now everything is re-racked and the power has been completely re-done.

Server room cabling nightmare

Nice and neat power

Nice and neat power

How the power should look. We don’t like management arms.

Server room cabling nightmare

The Model

The Model

This is our model rack.

Server room cabling nightmare

The Model II

The Model II

Top of the model rack.

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