I been in IT since 1993. In my career it was unbelievable how many people ignored proper cabling. I had a job about 4 years ago where the VP of the IT group said "why do we need to clean up the cabling, we are going to the cloud."
@@johntrent018 i think what he meant by saying "we are going to the cloud" is that they are going to close their own datacenter and rent couple of virtual hosts from a cloud provider...
@Kyle Working in IT for a major employer (88k employees globally), and ccna wireless certified (amongst other things), yes, wifi is an option for large campus, in fact, perferred these days.
As the guy in the ‘ head end’ room I really appreciate this vid. Clean ups are harder than new installs because you are usually under the gun to get everything up by the end of the weekend and invariably something critical is dropped on you in the middle of the project that the customer’s IT guy forgot to mention and has to be up the entire time. I agree with the tie wrap comments though, Velcro (3/4” usually) is my choice.
Being a structured cabling technician my self, i appreciate your planning, installation & handover of very critical cabling site. great jobs buddy, looks so decent .
I am glad to see that the cable Wranglers were being properly fed. Gummies are an essential source of nutrition and energy for detailed work. Placing them in areas of their cage where they can seek them out provides mental and physical stimulation.😜😜
@@timothyanderson2166 We've recently started using gummies as training tools to help installers learn how to route cable by seeking out the Gummies placed in small cable tray replicas. that resemble the icons on the cabling plans! new installers have learned to route cable 35% faster than unmotivated installers and are able to work for 15% longer then motivated installers. We are now testing their memory of the learned techniques.
@@PWingert1966 LOL. Be careful of overdosing the IT guys with glucose for performance enhancement. My research concluded there's a a fine balance between management expectations and realistic productivity. I've found the best ratio between work hours and meeting management expectations to be roughly 20 hours per day. Any more than that and productivity declines beyond repair, any less and management begins cutting out the lazy - even if the extra sleep increases productivity.
Damn that it was a cheep high watching that. Really cool. I used to work at Lowe’s home improvement warehouse and their data room had cables laying on the floor or tied to the ceiling with strings it was just a mess
I would generally agree, but those are not cable bundles that should ever need to be touched. Here they're touched because the whole thing was being rebuilt.
I'm working in data center as a tech. I previously worked for a company that was a client of my actual datacenter. They closed our service because they didn't 'need' it anymore as 'engineers' could do the same job. Alright. 5years later, I went to there room. I wouldn't qualify this room a mess, bit a jugnle of cable. For just 5years it was a jungle of cable. On the floor, walls with zip ties etc......a real shame. I quit this company with a high quality cable job. They ruined it........ I'm an engineer they said, I know a lot of things they said.
I work in the same field. That is why I believe Engineers and Technicians are equally valuable. The engineers are usually too busy working on other things than worrying about cable management and hardware.
IT: _Dude, these are 10 meter cables. I just need to hook up the new server rack to the network switch that's 3 inches away!_ Boss: _They were cheaper, make it work_
This is not a major retailer telecom room, that in itself separates the men from the boys, I have seen techs career end doing rack clean up, many career ending, the zip ties are illegal for patch cords and terminations, it effects cabling performance. One retailer will fire you on the spot if you are caught with zip ties on site.
all it needs it a little Velcro! Find that shortest cable first! Stay safe out there. You should like my video: Low-Voltage Wall of Shame - 1. More to come.
Short answer: sharpies. Lots and lots of sharpies. If your anal or build the extra time into the quote, actual cable flags. If your insane, heat shrink labels.
ELI5 Please. I get that they are organising cable but are these cables for some internal network for small organization so they can share files amongst themselves or what.Would really appreciate a ELI5 here. I am very curious about these sort of stuff.
Those cables most likely go to cubicles, offices, or other rooms inside of the company. They provide network connectivity to things like computers, wifi access points, phones, etc.
I’m guessing you don’t need to put the wires back to their exact places. Must be a contact or switch, all the same. If only my job had the same, haha. Anyways, good dressing !
Each cable was labeled when pulled off the old patch panels and the buildings labeling scheme remained the same, no relabeling of faceplates. Believe it or not, we didn’t have anything to fix Monday morning, it all went back together perfectly.
Honest question, why put all the switches in the same place? Why not put switches near to where they are used? is it not the point of a switch, to aggregate multiple cables on the same network, so you can have one and only one cable going back to the data center? Or is this company you worked for really-really big, so much so that you needed a 144 connection (doubled for redundance, so 288 cables) to the data center, because one cable from the distribution switch would not have enough bandwidth?
This room is the MDF for this building and is centrally located, all the cables fall within the permitted length of category cable specifications. If this were not the case one or multiple IDF’s fed with fiber optic cable would be used to feed data to locations farther than 300ish feet from the MDF. However, I do prefer at least one IDF to keep data runs shorter and it prevents data rooms from being overfilled. We did not design this buildings network infrastructure.
@@120estelle Thank you very much, I am just a student in the field trying to figure things out. ;) I can't even blame the legacy guys, because i know they were working without insight and with different expectations. I falsely assumed most cables (doubles for redundancy) were cat6 max sized (1GB) connecting from core to distribution layer. I made a count of the number of employees and my calculations were astronomical. I just couldn't belive a company would have so many employees as to require 144-288GB per seconds of bandwidth. That's me being a dummy before going to sleep. :)
I believe that any Data Room is clean and uncluttered when it is first deployed. However, due to the expansion of the demand, then also messed up!!Ha, ha, ha I don't know why RU-vid pushed this video to me
Exactly my thoughts. Good luck trying to trace or replace a cable. The worse job I ever saw was done by an "engineer" who BRAIDED the cables before he ran them the the rack channels. LOL.
Nice clean rehab there but FFS. Lose the cable ties. They look like shit. They get old dry and brittle. And is you dont use the right tools or technique they cut the crap out of people. The bane of my existence.
