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.
Plainly someone did not know how to do cabling.
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.
Half of these bins did not exist prior to the start of uncabling the mess.
This is how it all starts. Nice and clean. No idiotic mess of spaghetti!
My that looks so good!
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.
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
Now everything is re-racked and the power has been completely re-done.
How the power should look. We don’t like management arms.
This is our model rack.
Top of the model rack.
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
