my first patch panel !

knowlesy · 20 Mar 2009 at 13:58

heyo thought id just shout about his for a second, just finished tidying / re organising my first patch panel

I should have taken a before picture but i totally forgot....

Curiosityx · 20 Mar 2009 at 14:06

Very nice, what do the connections look like at the back of the cab though?

knowlesy · 20 Mar 2009 at 14:09

lol dunno as i didnt install the cabs

inph · 20 Mar 2009 at 14:28

Patch panel tidiness has a halflife, you should take another photo in 4 weeks time, another in a few months...

Dangerous · 20 Mar 2009 at 14:45

Red = Servers?
Yellow = Data/PCs
Blue = VoIP?
Grey = Printer?

iaind · 20 Mar 2009 at 14:48

inph said:
Patch panel tidiness has a halflife, you should take another photo in 4 weeks time, another in a few months...

For extra points, lock the cab and dont let anyone touch in, IME it will still end up a mess

bledd · 20 Mar 2009 at 14:59

i love the 'messy patch panel' threads

they look like huge fire hazards

Rwac · 20 Mar 2009 at 15:26

Good work - guessing your on a placement year?

svbooga · 20 Mar 2009 at 15:58

its great when you first do it, then it quickly goes out the window when you start moving cabled round

Kona* · 20 Mar 2009 at 16:19

That patch panel looks familiar

Good job on it, looks a hell of a lot better than it did at the beginning of the week! Next up is the server cab *shudder*

Rob7865 · 20 Mar 2009 at 16:50

Rwac said:
Good work - guessing your on a placement year?

LOL

knowlesy · 22 Mar 2009 at 15:54

Dangerous said:
Red = Servers?
Yellow = Data/PCs
Blue = VoIP?
Grey = Printer?

yellow = phone - not voip yet

blue = data
red = servers
grey = isdn + some servers that are direct lines

inph said:
Patch panel tidiness has a halflife, you should take another photo in 4 weeks time, another in a few months...

will do

Kona* said:
That patch panel looks familiar

Good job on it, looks a hell of a lot better than it did at the beginning of the week! Next up is the server cab *shudder*

oh noes !!!!! :eek:

Rwac said:
Good work - guessing your on a placement year?

you are correct sir !

slylittlefox · 22 Mar 2009 at 22:37

It's just become a competition

Before

After

Invest in some Neat Patches, they're well worth the cash

knowlesy · 22 Mar 2009 at 23:43

dam you its loads nicer !

iaind · 23 Mar 2009 at 07:24

Beginning to wish I took pictures of mine, the whole building terminates centrally, so the patch cab is a full height 42U rack. It's all CAT6 too which was a PITA because its not as flexible as CAT5.

Some numpty thought it would be a good idea to feed each cable through the holes to the back, down the back of the rac, then out the hole at the bottom to the switch - making tracing cables nearly impossible...

oddjob62 · 23 Mar 2009 at 07:30

iaind said:
It's all CAT6 too which was a PITA because its not as flexible as CAT5.

I hear you there matey :mad:

knowlesy · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:14

iaind said:
Some numpty thought it would be a good idea to feed each cable through the holes to the back, down the back of the rac, then out the hole at the bottom to the switch - making tracing cables nearly impossible...

oh I had to do that for my summer job track cables one day omg it was unreal the guy had like odd amounts of cables coming down from the server room then row upon row of switches, spidering about feeding in and out on the floor it was shockingly bad and next to near 6 mins on average to log in I think i got rid of like 6 *8port switchs and god knows how much cable when we installed the patch panel

Five_Star · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:48

slylittlefox said:
Invest in some Neat Patches, they're well worth the cash

They are awesome, help maintain the neatness over time too

Delvis · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:46

Ah I kinda miss my days of cabinet making

101predator · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:00

Patch panel tidiness, nothing like trying to trace back the grey data cable in the tie wrapped bundle of 199 other grey cables, hours of fun