Friday 5th January 2007
On 7th January 2007, at 15:25pm PKT, mansoor said:
quite an acheivement!
well done!
On 15th January 2007, at 17:37pm PKT, Lord Matt said:
OMG!!! I don't think I even want to know how the before image came about.
On 15th January 2007, at 22:22pm PKT, Sajjad said:
Actually, someone let the cables hang out on purpose to prepare for a proper recabling and make it easier to manage (it was still pretty bad before that). However, it stayed like that for at least six months until we got around to scheduling the recabling.
On 6th March 2008, at 09:03am PKT, Dallas Cabling said:
Sometimes you have to wonder how people can work with cabling that looks like your before picture. If you ever have to troubleshoot, it's such a nightmare.
On 18th July 2008, at 13:40pm PKST, Cable Ties said:
yeah this is really a nightmare, Dallas Cabling
Fixing a mess of cables
In a recent maintenance activity, one that lasted till dawn, the aim was solely to fix the horrendous mess of cables that had piled up over time at the data center. The mess was so bad that I was expecting to find some distant relative of the Dust Bunny somewhere underneath. Cablator, the evil midget that converts everything it rubs on its bald head into cables.
The operation wasn't as bad as you might think though. Fresh cables were run following a properly defined path and the old ones were simply ripped out and locked away. There were some service disruptions during the few seconds when the old cable was plugged out and the new one was inserted, but these were quite minimal.
Here are the before and after pics of the same network rack:
Before
After
Ok, maybe the current view doesn't look that impressive by itself. Some of the award-winning networking jobs that I've seen really are very good, but comparing to the before pic, it was a commendable and brave achievement.
13:47pm