FUNNY STUFF Cable Porn

[wardmundy]

 

[rjaiswal]

reminds me of the wiring closet in my basement. I really need to clean that up.

 

[TirsoJRP]

Looks like my previous job data center, we were afraid to find bodies when untangling the cables coming from the ceiling.

 

[wardmundy]

Now imagine walking into that on a Monday morning and finding everything standing in a foot of water. Been there, done that, too.

 

[magna.vis]

Just a few of our core switches in Iraq

 

[Brianmac]

Thank you for your service and sacrifice!!! God's speed home!!!!

 

[magna.vis]

Thank you for your service and sacrifice!!! God's speed home!!!!

Thanks! These were from my deployment in 2008, so I'm happily on American soil again. Haven't been back since. I wonder if I have pictures of some of the networking closets from my 2006 deployment; they were even worse. Many of these were taken prior to network cable cleanup projects. Here are a couple of "after" shots, none of them are very good, but way better than what we started with. I also have some of a storage array we mounted in a rack using a piece of wood because we didn't have anything else to suspend it, lol.

 

[sactobob]

Wow! In the "old dialup days" (1993) I had a room that was filled with at least 250 modems and Portmasters with power strips and hand-built transformers daisy chaining 5 at a time. If a Fire Marshall ever dropped by for an inspection I'd of been screwed! Wished I'd taken a picture. Finally when the Nasty Telcos (AT&T) got into the act (after bitching and moaning for a several years how we (ISPS) were ruining their business) some decent hardware came out. I remember purchasing 15 boxes (Not the "Ascend it back" boxes) that took 2 T1s giving a total of 48 56K modems, each at $14k a pop. Yahoo, 700+ modems all in one clean rack (for about 10,000 dialups). Finally as Dialup died for DSL, I slowly paired down to the point I basically now use a service to outsource 20 ports. My only regret is when I eWasted them all (worth about $50 each!) I should have at least kept 2 for nostalgic purposes.

 

[sactobob]

Thanks! These were from my deployment in 2008, so I'm happily on American soil again. Haven't been back since. I wonder if I have pictures of some of the networking closets from my 2006 deployment; they were even worse. Many of these were taken prior to network cable cleanup projects. Here are a couple of "after" shots, none of them are very good, but way better than what we started with. I also have some of a storage array we mounted in a rack using a piece of wood because we didn't have anything else to suspend it, lol.

Wow, is that a Netapp F250 or F270? I had 3 (250s) in service with 3 spares in the garage. Great work horse for 10+ years, but aging now. My first Netapp was a F720 that I bought for around $35k new, but with F250s/270s all around $250-$800 (fully loaded on ebay, it's hard not to pass them up). Finally started moving my hosts to onboard Raid 10s (a big change from iSCSI common mounts) and now down to 1. Using a great VMware backup called VMexplore (trilead.com) that in pinch I can pull from several different sources of daily backups to restore to another system. If I could afford the $2500 per host/cpu price for a vmware san I'd do it, but I don't have $15k to spare.

 

[magna.vis]

Wow, is that a Netapp F250 or F270?

We had both in service, but if I recall this one in particular was a 250. I'll post some of our datacenter pictures in a bit, it was a decent setup. I like the onboard RAID, or even the RAID expansion arrays they have. The big issue there is most of our storage was shared across several ESXi hosts, so if it were local storage it would be useless in failover situations. I'll post some pictures and a short description of our setup, circa 2006 and 2008, Camp Fallujah, Iraq. The whole network and base have been taken down, so it's not a security threat to divulge such info anymore.

 

[wardmundy]

And the room we ALL wished for...

 

[billsimon]

We've all seen pretty cabling jobs like that, but the difference between those and what I'm used to is that in my workplace we make changes. You can either have perfectly-routed, perfect-length cabling that is photo worthy, or you can have the ability to move plugs to different ports or otherwise change things around from time to time.

 

[dicko]

Someone should tell these guys about Fiber, it's a lot smaller and way less impressive, but does in actual fact work.

 

[magna.vis]

Are these not fiber? I thought at least the bundles on the right were, if not most. I can see how most look like BNC or some kind of coax, but thought I had to be mistaken. Does anyone actually know what this is for? At any rate, if it's not fiber, I would have to imagine it's a different technology for a reason. I don't know of any aggregation switches for data traffic that don't use fiber or, sometimes, ethernet.

@billsimon is totally right. Unless these go to a patch panel somewhere, just one cable move will ruin the whole thing.

Where's @Hyksos at these days? They used to post in threads like this. Forum says last seen September 2014!? Man time flies.

 

[wardmundy]

Photo credit: 2600 | The Hacker Quarterly

 

[ou812]

And it only cost 200 man hours to terminate.

Gary

 

[rjaiswal]

Are these not fiber? I thought at least the bundles on the right were, if not most. I can see how most look like BNC or some kind of coax, but thought I had to be mistaken. Does anyone actually know what this is for? At any rate, if it's not fiber, I would have to imagine it's a different technology for a reason. I don't know of any aggregation switches for data traffic that don't use fiber or, sometimes, ethernet.

@billsimon is totally right. Unless these go to a patch panel somewhere, just one cable move will ruin the whole thing.

Where's @Hyksos at these days? They used to post in threads like this. Forum says last seen September 2014!? Man time flies.

That looks like the back of a video router. I installed something similiar when I was working for Pro-Bel and helped build a large satellite tv provider's uplink facility.

 

[wardmundy]

And then there's this one from Jay Johnson on Facebook:

 

[krzykat]

Hey - at least you could trace those wires

 

[Huckda]

Photo credit: 2600 | The Hacker Quarterly

And the right colors too! Go Suns!