@@shamelessape1 It looks brilliant but there's yes and no... All the cables are the same color - so what's the difference how are they "organized"? Only way of finding the right one is by blinking led-s on the switch. And here comes the hard part. What if entire cable needs to be replaced (broken somewhere mid-way, not at the rj plug)?
@@madyogi6164 He's referring to organization as it relates to neatness. The cables on the back of these patch panels are organized into bundles defined by the left or right side of the panel they go to, then sub-divided based on row, and finally split into groups of 2-3 ports. You really want to be able to visually trace wires to and from the back of the patch panel--tugging on them to find the right cable is a good way to pull a wire loose.
Great job to the team that did this. Hope your management team recommended a bonus for you. This is beyond just doing your job. It’s passion and love for what you do. I absolutely love people who go above and beyond. Thank you for doing an amazing job.
My company would blast me and rightly so if my cables looked like a sack of shit. When u visit a site and see shocking cabling u always take note of who the company was and when u see brilliant cabling u do the same. So many electrical companies used to get the sparkies to do the structured cabling and it turned out terrible.
I've seen a LOT of great cable work and done a fair amount myself, but I have never seen anything this good. You sir are an artist. I suspect your OCD therapy bills must be outrageous.
Brings back fond memories to when I was a wireman at GEC. We had to make them neat like this and all wires were "formed" at terminal blocks too. Didnt use cable ties, all had to knotted with binding.
Nice to see pride in someone's work. I used to work for Southwest Communications back in the '90s and that's how our work would look. If you were sloppy, you would be out of a job quickly.
I've done cable management this way many many times but I have also done cable management using wax string = the old telephone company way = as requested by the customer.. Either way looks nice but zip ties are by far easier and faster.
Just remove the plug, thread the cable through the clamps and thread in a new one then add a plug. And it likely wont brake because its not being bent at a stressfull angle AND its easier to find it and remove it than doing it from a spaghetti explosion kind of situation.
Thirty odd yrs back when commercial phone systems were still heavily "wired out" like this, we used to do work like that. Cabling is an Art. Absolutely fantastic work by whoever did this.
To everyone saying, "It's going to be a really crappy job replacing a cable." A quality ethernet cable, which data centers use, have a VERY LOW failure rate. They are just as reliable as the electric cables run throughout a building. So, in reality it's a RARE occurrence and in the 50-60 years when they do begin to experience widespread failures(and that is just a possibility they could last for hundreds of years). The entire server room would be have been overhauled, multiple times, with new servers and technologies, including cabling, anyways. So basically everyone's point, who said that, is MOOT.
+Philip Horsley Exactly. I have been doing data center infrastructure for 10 years and can count on one hand the number of cables that have "gone bad". (Though sysadmins will go there first every damn time). And that is for patch cords. This is punched down trunking which, once tested after install, should NEVER have a problem.
rats eat cables, random contractors can cut cables, there might be a cable drop that needs to be relocated that does not have enough slack....lots of things go wrong
Joshua - in my experience a datacentre with rats probably wouldn't have neat cabling anyway; or many customers. And besides, this is infrastructure cabling, it's so rare to ever have to touch it once installed. Even if a fault develops on a port all you'd do is patch to the next spare.
And they probably already have some redundant drops in there. I mean, even in small offices it's a good idea to run every drop in pairs... Cable is cheap
Blitz K Well, copper is not as bad as people think. We have a 10Gb copper network at work, and it is great. Your cable broke? Well, use this CAT5e, no 10Gb for a while, but it works.
The radius bends when the cables come out of the bundle and into the patch panel are a thing of beauty! This is what a fantastic job looks like. I know some people will say "but zip ties!" but truthfully in a DC core you shouldn't be screwing around with your cable layout. Plus, the likelihood of having a cable fail in this sort of setup is vanishingly small.
Wow!! What an amazing installation. One of the best ones I've ever seen. Only problem with it is that it should be secured with Velcro and not tie wraps.
I'm not a cabler, so serious question here: If one of those cables are bad, how do you replace it? Or if you need to re-terminate because of bad connection, is there enough slack to do so?
Very nice dressing. I used to do this. Spend weeks in the closet 8-10 hrs a day wasting tons of ty-wraps. Wished I had taken photos of my work back then.
this looks amazing. What is your method for making it look so clean? Is everything labeled and separated correctly? or is the cables punched down in no order?
I'm sure the front and the network drop cover plate has a label. You really don't need to label cables. It's a lot of extra work for little benefit. There are tools that will allow 2 techs to walk through the building identifying port numbers as they go and label on the fly -and you don't have to dress your cabling based on any particular order.
+hellterminator Like the copper is suddenly going to "go bad"??? That's about as "never going to move" as it gets. And none of it looks over tightened. I'd rather see cable lacing, but that's such a lost art.
I used to do this in Data Centres, very time consuming and not that easy but rewarding being told your work is very good and seeing it neat and on display. Now cable sock is the way forward as it saves bags of time, which no one gets on jobs these days....excellent work👍🏼
Hats of to the team for this masterpiece! I'am a data center technician myself, I've never seen such an organized and precise dressing as this. My only question is, did you cut the ends when you reached the rack to get the exactly needed lenght?? It looks like its prefect down until the last centimeters, my mind is blown tbh...
This is an excellent job my only comment is to stop using tie wraps. its OK to use them to train your cables but shouldn't be used long term. one small diagonal clip and its a razor blade. Most if not all central offices ban the use of tie wraps (fire+safety hazard). I used a lot of wax twine but now Velcro seems to be what all the "data" people use nowadays, so I too secede to the Velcro.
This is nothing short of stunning work. I have to say, that if you DID have to replace a cable, it would be WAY easier to do it in a nice neat situation, than a rat's nest. Are those 10 gig cables? they look too big to be cat 5 or 6. You my friend have amazing talent, patience, and pride. THIS is what pride in your work is all about. I'm awe struck. This is going in my favorites folder. *applause* *standing ovation* Take a bow my friend, and then another.
While a rat's nest is unsightly and a nightmare to unravel, this can also be a nightmare to unravel as well if a cable did go faulty or some slack was needed for whatever reason - and a time-consuming nightmare to reclose too. Aesthetics isn't the only important parameter.
And then the vice president of eliminating extra personnel stated, "cables going to the left side must be a different color from those going to the right side".
Excellent workmanship, been there and did that, gotta say that it had to of been more than one guy. Thats a lot of cable to pull, then you have to sort and lay it out correctly so that you know where in the bundle and which bundle side the cables have to be on, then you have to factor in the turns. Meticulous planning, and a lot of detail work. Looks like zip ties, not sure if they really are. I did notice no labeling on the cables at or near termination point, I assume they are there somewhere, just not visible, as that is required at every installation I have ever been on. Kudos Eddy
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well what matters is the overall amps,but i just looked up current carried in CAT cables and it was surprisingly high :O regarding UHF... there is no change in polarity in signal wires, just voltage levels going higher or lower. so as long as the cables arent coiled there shouldnt be any problem. cables are also all twisted. meaning nearly all outgoing or incoming EMF is canceled out. you may not know this but CAT5 cables arent even shielded BECAUSE they are twisted pairs.
1. There is a polarity change because all signals are differential (tx+/tx- to rx+/rx-). 2. Pairs are twisted so that interference is equal on both lines (tx+ and tx-). The differential result will eliminate the interference. 3. The difference in category has nothing to do with shielding but mostly cable gauge to increase usable cable frequency. The cable type (UTP, FTP, STP, SFTP ... etc) define the presence and type of shielding.
he aint a poor sod .. he did it the right way ... the poor sod is the guy who has to take the jumble and make it work ... that takes forever this setup 1 day for all the wires to be tested .. a jumble a week IF youre lucky
I do this for a living. I have to say, hands down nicest I have ever seen. Wish I could get it that perfect. Only change I would make is some cable identification labels would be nice.
Where do you want me to post my work Quinn Greg??Because my work is perfection, I'm BICSI Level 2 Certified by the way,and there's no tie wraps aloud in my data center!Not on Cat.6 especially, so let's see some of your work Quinn Greg.
+Tony Touma ..... I know a well done job will be velcroed and labeled. the client didn't want to get this done all the way because of many important reasons.... I can't say the details because It would involve the company's way of doing things.......... I guess you sir are gonna have to imagine how it would look with velcroe and labels.
+Eddy Rodriguez You're right,and I will admit it does look aesthetically good,really good,but no tie wraps in the data center is a rule of thumb on my side of things.
+Quin Gregg Congrats bro,I'm on LinkedIn, check me out.My real name is Tony Touma. I like your credentials though,started in 84' myself. Enjoy the weekend.
Cut a zip tie, pull the bad cable out, put a new one in its place, and zip it up again. Then proceed to the next zip tie. When bundles are made perfectly like these, they actually make it very easy to replace a cable, as they don't get tangled. So you can just pull out the bad cable instead of having to untangle it.
@@sanderd17 But if the cable is in the middle of the loom - not so easy, and not so easy to get it as good looking again. Re-tying it will take ages too. Nice and aesthetic yes, but that's not the be-all-and-end-all.
Lmfao not even close a union guy wouldn't have this much time or pride. Plus it's really not that hard considering they have a tool that slides over the cable straightening it out for them and then they wrap a cable tie on it
This is the nicest dressed up equipment I've ever seen. I work for big telecommunications Co. and they wouldn't appreciate this because it's ALL about TIME and MONEY!
would have been interesting to see the process that led to the outcome. curious if the bundling was random, i.e. a single level in a punchdown came all from the same floor in the highrise, or from a random office? also, maybe the nearly empty punchdowns should have been filled from the bottom up so you could add more lines later and maintain the symmetry and overal OCD/anal retentiveness :) Great job, nicely done!
Not patch cables, but the actual wiring. That's an excellent point though. When it comes to cables ties, I consider "less is more"...the less you use the better. It's been suggested to me that you should use Velcro for CAT6. To that I say "then why do the come with the panels???". ;-)
patch cables LOL , seriously though if a cable gets added that is a lot of zip ties to cut and re-install. Velcro is your answer Eddy . I'm sure in the last 7 years you've figured this out though .
velcro is the worst thing to use as a cable tie on this .. it adds an emf which makes everything go screwy ... NEVER use velcro on network cabling EVER
you only get that service when you being paid well..........been there done it. Bosess always want to know whats taking so long. Thats when zero f^^cks are given. you give them spaghetti for rushing you........Obviously this guy had no worries of time.
And this is the main reason I never got back into the industry. I had a string of jobs where neatness was demanded so I was ruined for the typical rush jobs that are more commonplace. I got so frustrated for over 2 years not being able to do work that met my own high standards I was soured on the network tech/cabling industry.
i always told the people who said rush ... you want it done or done right pick on ... cuz getting it done can be 20 minutes but if you got to trouble shoot it after it will be days to get it done .... if you do it right the first time trouble shooting takes hours at most...and that includes putting the fix back in place with all the ties ... . most sites who are given th option say take your time do it right cuz the IT departmnt understands ... less time down means more time up and more productivity ... IT's groups that say get it done aint worth shit.
My company just moved to new offices. We have a large test lab, requiring lots of RF/Ethernet connections. In total we have 34 racks dedicated to just to patch panels, albeit not entirely full, to support about 120 racks of various equipment we installed afterwards. They did great work. The work in this video is even better. Must give props to the technicians that spend weeks doing such work. It isn't outwardly appreciated enough, but it serves as a critical service to network infrastructure.
