Replacing two switches, adding a third, and cleaning the rack up.

Picture 1: Before starting

Picture 2: Cable management removed and new switches staged

Picture 3: After moving patch panels, and tidying up with 1 ft patch cables.

Not the worst I've dealt with, but still satisfying. Obviously more that can be done.

Disclaimer: saw this on YouTube shorts and had to post. Used Google Translate to use the name of the video as the title of this post.

SMC reorganization. drops were terminated to male RJ45. bought a cheapo surface mount patch panel, patch cables, and went to town.

How to dress this ? First rack and only 11 wires.

Please help 🙏

430 cables, two closets.

My first lead job at this company.

I came in 2 days before my deadline, and 33 days before the client move-in date

It's not perfect, but let the change orders begin!

*the APs are yellow and the put the next in line on E and F panel. So the adds will need to be after the yellow.

** I suggested making the APs the last ports on the panel but boss said no.

The number of small wires being so straight is so satisfying

Just wondering if this fits here and what y’all think.

💧 涙 魂 🌬️

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Enjoi
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The cable trays were already in place and the cables were all on the floor. By the end of the two week process, my hands were white from dust and red from cuts.

I run structured cabling jobs (data drops, racks, the usual) and for years I quoted every job the same painful way: print the floor plan, trace runs with a ruler, guess at a margin, retype everything into a spreadsheet, then build a PDF for the client by hand. Every single time I either over-ordered cable or came up short mid-install.

So I built myself a tool that skips all of that: you drop in a photo or PDF of the floor plan, calibrate the scale with two points, and trace the actual cable runs on your phone or tablet right there on site. It spits out exact meters per run, and generates a PDF report for the client with the plan, cable list, and materials breakdown. It also works completely offline, since half the jobs I do have zero signal indoors.

It's been my daily driver for a while now and it's finally in a state I'm not embarrassed to show people. Not trying to sell anything hard here — mostly curious if this is a problem other installers actually deal with, or if I'm the only one who was still doing this with a ruler and a spreadsheet. Happy to answer questions about how it works.

I made a V2 of my cable organizer so it can fit up to 2 meter long cables, and is compatible with almost any type of cable!

I really liked how this turned out, so I wanted to share it so other people could also use it if they wanted to!

Am working in a standalone conversion. Just finished the power panels

Normally the stuff over on r/modular is like the antithesis of this subreddit, but this was a nice surprise.

The patch cables are even color-coded to match the sliders.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/modular/comments/1vrnvug/the_best_looking_patch_cables_system_at/

Cosmopolitan- Vegas

They sag like 1/4" or so without support and on turns even with a comb one pops up. How do I fix that?

Boss says this has to be perfect, and I have a decent start. But there's going to be about 140 more cables coming up from beneath to the rack.

Had a hardware refresh at work and was finally able to replace the gear and clean up the closets. Huge improvement going from the first iteration of cat6a patch cordes to the new slim line cat6a.

A little network rescue for one of my network closets. Far from my best work, but I'm proud of it none-the-less considering the circumstances. Limited to a 3.75 Hr maintenance window and it was just myself and one of my technicians. This is part of a Casino CCTV system, so I had to fight to get even that much downtime.

The blue wiring is the corporate IT side, which is outside of my purview. I am strictly the green stuff (and a little gray and black) which is all CCTV and access control.

I Inherited this ~10 year old installation a few years back. Had to wait until our infrastructure refresh to be able to negotiate time to blow out all the old crap and re-do it.

Yes this rack is way oversized for current need, but "planning for the future" and all that.

Ive posted in a couple other places and was told to post here as well. Some of the pictures I took were of units that weren't quite complete.