Server room cabling nightmare
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What I started with
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.
Another view of the start
Another view of the start
Plainly someone did not know how to do cabling.
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.
Cables all removed
Cables all removed
Half of these bins did not exist prior to the start of uncabling the mess.
After removal
After removal
This is how it all starts. Nice and clean. No idiotic mess of spaghetti!
More after removal
More after removal
My that looks so good!
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.
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
Everything re-racked
Everything re-racked
Now everything is re-racked and the power has been completely re-done.
Nice and neat power
Nice and neat power
How the power should look. We don’t like management arms.
The Model
The Model
This is our model rack.
The Model II
The Model II
Top of the model rack.
