A few random shots of my comms room (Taken on my old 6680 so excuse the quality)

Mail Servers
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/2.jpg

Application server racks 5 & 6
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/3.jpg

Mess of wires! Switch 4 (Catalyst 4006, fully populated - 6 x 48 port cards all PoE out to the phones - I have 6 of these in total)
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/4.jpg

4 of the 10 voice gateways
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/6.jpg

Few more VGs and the LAN extensions
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/7.jpg

Interconnect gateway rack one (Demarkation point for several of the leased lines)
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/8.jpg

More leased lines
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/9.jpg

A few more leased lines
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/10.jpg

Hiding some of the mess behind glass!! (Wiring racks 4 through 7)
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/11.jpg

This rack is for one leased line to a customer in india
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/12.jpg

And the back view (Not cabled yet)
http://www.mark-chapman.com/comms/13.jpg

Soooo many computers!!

/me wouldent be able to resist swapping a few wires over then running away

Not so long ago i delivered a load of Dell Servers to a New ISP that was starting up in london. Cant remember the name of it but it was just off the a13 by the Dome. Anyway..they had a whole artic lorry full of servers that stood about 7ft tall and we delivered them in to this air conditiioned factory space. I wondered then how much wiring it was gonna take to set it all up.
That just reminded sorry  

Thats about 1/10 of the gear - ill take a few more pix on me phone later on!

can ya rotate em next time though, my neck hurts now from tilting sideways  


lots of hardware, yum!  :mrgreen:

Quote from: knighty/me wouldent be able to resist swapping a few wires over then running away

would have to kill you if you did, know how much of a pain it is cabling stuff up,


btw quality use of the rj45 coupler in the messy cable shot  

(and look at that errant patch cable through the top of the glass in 11.jpg )




also just noticed, on the messy cable shot, right at the top youve got the power cables to the redundant supplies running through the handles of the others.
what happens if one of them fails ??, youll have to unplug the other supplies to be able to swap the failed one out.

Thats proper Cabinet.  Absolutely zero cable managmement.  

nih on impossible to have cabke management when you have hundreds of devices cabled back to each cabinet - eg in one rack I have 2 x catalyst 4006 fully loaded, and 12 routers, each with 4 E1 cards in them!

Quote from: BXGTi16Vnih on impossible to have cabke management when you have hundreds of devices cabled back to each cabinet - eg in one rack I have 2 x catalyst 4006 fully loaded, and 12 routers, each with 4 E1 cards in them!

Ah, but not totally impossible!, you could custom make all of your cables (as Eon do) and the they would all fit nicely in rows!

i made all my cables for the patch cabinet at work, you put an inch of slack on this one and that one and they soon look crap.

Seriously though BXGTi16V, sort the powercords out to the redudent PSUs,
you dont wanna take the thing offline because youve gotta unplug the power cords to replace one of the psus  :shock:

Thats an optical illusion - aka a bad picture - they are cable tied to the handle of successive psus - they dont actually get looped through - very hard to see anything in that mess!

It would take too long to make cables up - with getting close to 1,000 desktops and moves and changes happening every day, and expansion at the rate of 60-100 per month focus is more on operation than trying to fit thousands of cables inside channels!

While you are at it could we have some photies of the security measures, guards, their patrol routes, etc. You know the stuff


Yes Im joking

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oh, damn

would save us a lot of cash, not having to buy another PC...  ever... again.

Ive often thought about making something similar.

An online game where you assemble a team to try and beat other teams at stealing something from somewhere.

Wanted it to be based on real places though, decided not to follow through on the idea as the legallity of it would have been in question.

Sorta like a computerised "heist" your team needs to plan and have the computer simulate an attack upon a building to retrieve something and escape without detection or just being successful.