What’s crazy is that not one person got reprimanded for this disaster.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

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

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

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

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      Jokes in you thinking these would be many cables. It’s probably one long fibre optic cable used to store bits in-flight.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

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

  • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    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

      • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        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