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We found this picture and couldn’t believe our eyes. This can’t even be called a cable mess. This is cable CHAOS.
“Hmmm… Where does this one lead…?”
Hopefully this isn’t your data center. 
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I hate to be the one to say this, but it isn't as bad as it looks. It looks on close inspection that the cables were set in layers, and that sets of cables are tied together. It probably doesn't happen very often that a single cable needs to be replaced -- you likely swap out a whole crate when something goes wrong, and then troubleshoot the part of the crate offline, while the rest of the cluster is still online -- wheel it back in mostly wired, and then add the longer cables in.
haha that was really different :-) I thought that ny network center was the worst cable mess...no I am wrong :-) Thanks for sharing it
In response to aliuxx's comment, there isn't a mess like this on the racks in the background because those are the back sides of other several-U-thick equipment with what looks like only power cables connected on that side.
Eh, I've seen worse. Was asked to decode a hand - wired microprocessor in 1983 when I was a Mechanical Engineering Student at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Around this time, computer kits were your only option. Only slight regret I declined. Stuart E Fiedler, PE Fiedler Engineering / Consulting
It seems like a joke (just made to take this wonderful photo) ... because there is no cable mess in the racks standing deep in the room ... If this is real production conditions there must be enormous cooling capacities to cool down anything behind this yellow wall (if there isn't - these cables would be black in a photo ... after fire) :)
Go to darkroastedblend.com, click on [funny pics] then [crazy wiring]. You'll be there for ever...
Good lord.. if there are servers or network gear behind that mess, I wonder how hot they're running? There's 0 air flow!!!
name? you wanna name? Jimmy Hoffa! Howz that for name?..I'll even tell you that he's in there..you still gotta find 'im.
This picture is of Lehman Brothers World Financial Center 3 data center. Pre 9/11 it was the primary Data center, post 9/11 this site was breached by the dust and written off completely. Which was a good thing since there was no other way to fix that mess. Days were lost just trying to trace a single connection. There is a smaller gray version of this wall one of the NJ data centers thats still in use. :(
I worked there last summer as a temp Rack and Stack Engineer. It’s a very large datacenter in St. Louis, Missouri. I believe the guys there called it “the wall if despair” I actually did some cable tracing. That’s crazy I wanted to take a pic of it so bad, but if they even seen you with a cell phone in the Datacenter it was immediate termination.
I'll bet it looked great when the guys who did the structured cabling walked out the door. Not so good two days after though...
Honestly, who designed this mess? There has GOT to be a better way. Although it does look pretty cool. Hope whoever hooked it up made no mistakes - debugging that would be a nightmare.
I hate to be the one to say this, but it isn't as bad as it looks. It looks on close inspection that the cables were set in layers, and that sets of cables are tied together. It probably doesn't happen very often that a single cable needs to be replaced -- you likely swap out a whole crate when something goes wrong, and then troubleshoot the part of the crate offline, while the rest of the cluster is still online -- wheel it back in mostly wired, and then add the longer cables in. But it sure does look crazy!
This is impossible, it can't work.Don't you see it? That yellow cable at the far end there is in the wrong place. Sheesh
"That is completely made of Awesome. You could hide the body of a consultant in that mess." I like the way you think.
I agree, job security. Only the guy who wired it knows how it all works. Way to go, old school. Though it looks almost like that under my desk at home. Ah, old school.
This is pure Biltong....100% for sure. This is the machine that makes sliced cheese for burgers!
Hint: start using cables which are sized right for the job. 1/2 foot cables turned our racks into heaven.
@brooce: wireless is nice for an end user but not a data centre. Trust me. And yes, I have heard of wireless fools. Seems like you are one of them.
all I can say is "welcome to the jungle, gets worse here every day..." I really hope they have l3 switches that have decent management capability to show you what's on what port.... I also wonder how close they are to the 100m limit just getting across the server room :P
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