[NSFL] The complete opposite of cable porn

Imagine one of the racks is empty but covered in those like a bead curtain. only it goes into a DC speakeasy.

That would have completely altered the course of my career.
- perfect name for it would have been, "The Spanning Tree"

Hey, no kink shaming!

If it's negotiating at 100 base-T then I'm definitely kink shaming
... unless that's your thing.

Kinda looks like some kind of switch over. I've seen those look like a disaster until all the old equipment is gone.

You're half right. Yes, this is after moving off of an old monolithic switch chassis. But it looked like a disaster before too:

And it never got cleaned up. The executive play of "fire everyone possible and then some so the books look better" paid off. They got their buyout and the new company closed the location.

Bonus patch panel for funsies:

I do not miss that hellhole.
- Yikes. I made a pretty large amount of money in the mid 2000's at a military base cleaning up messes like that. They were getting ready to destroy some munitions that contained a nerve agent. There was a huge build up and staffing on the base which had been largely shuttered for years. I was called out by what turned out to be one of the main logistical offices there. This was mostly non military contractors. There were dozens of offices spread throughout the base. Each one was a sub contractor. They sent me a fifty page pdf on what they wanted done but when I got there that pdf turned out to be a fantasy. That closet was a rats nest of over lapping cables and dead equipment. There was even a still functioning(sorta) token ring network in there. I spent nearly a week redoing that closet cleaning up and throwing away dead equipment. I also spent quite a bit of time redoing the documentation and taking photos for the people at their main office. When I got done I sent in a bill and one of the people at that office brought me a book with the federal pay scales in it. I resubmitted my low four figure bill as a low five figure bill and I was off to the races. They liked the job I did and I ended up cleaning up a large amount of those offices network closets. Its amazing how many orgs out there that have garbage like that in their back office. It was good money and from it I learned that a lot of government type work isn't done at by the lowest bidder.

As in, kids' shows that never make it to paid TV services?

All those cables, and a stack of near empty 48 port switches just there in the rack lmao

Jokes in you thinking these would be many cables. It's probably one long fibre optic cable used to store bits in-flight.
- What's wild is that that's actually a thing
  
  https://youtu.be/wumluVRmxyA
  
  At some point in the video they film a room they can't go into because the SEC would need to be notified. The rack in the room has spools of fiber allocated to various financial institutions so they can have equidistant links for fair trading.
Those big beefy switches had been EoL for several years before they got decommed. The blue spaghetti is the result of migrating off of them. This room was bad before, but after... yeah, this is what happens when companies decide to have a dozen locations but fire all of the DC staff in most of them.
The icing on the cake for me is the empty “Neat Patch” above the switches

Looks like an overworked it department. Can't make things maintainable if you can barely have them not collapse

This is quite tidy for the mess it is.

Looks like an overworked it department. Can't make things maintainable if you can barely have them not collapse

Executive management cares not for the plight of the pawns. Layoffs will continue until ~~morale improves~~ the buyout cashout.

Electric Spaghetti

Cable bukkake.

Yup. Still porn, just a different kind.

BDSM Cable Porn?

Tentacle Cable Porn?

I always dream I’m gonna make one of those neatly arranged cable porn displays. I get the spool of cat6, my crimpers, zip ties, etc, then about 20 minutes in I run into the one proprietary cable that’s way too long. I try to tuck away the excess and it never works well. Then all the power cables. Then I give up and basically get this

power cables

PTSD intensifies
- Right? I’m convinced every time I see some ultra fancy network cabinet that they either have some fancy method of making iec 13 cables, a budget to buy a ton of cables in custom lengths (and the time to wait for them to ship), or (imo most likely) they’re hiding an absolute mess behind the nice part

Cable Gore

I don't think we even have ethernet cabling in our DCs anymore, it's all fiber now. Only for in house networking, workstations, printers etc.

sounds expensive for dedicated hw. might you be fully virtualized where the hosts can fully utilize the bandwidth of fiber?