Comments on: Wiring Closets – Done Right! https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/ technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Cisco Chassis Switch and Stackable Fixed Switch Price Comparison « SevenLayers https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7842 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:57:59 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=2834#comment-7842 […] Review this awesome blog for benefits of fixed.  Bottom line this is the real reason I think we use stacked switches.  Clean run and easy to trace cabling in y0ur access closet is important (you may have a secretary tracing a cable one day!).  Stacked switches make this easy. http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/ […]

]]> By: Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7186 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:40:14 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=2834#comment-7186 Some of these were pretty impressive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=r-9VZubB1uI

Cheers!

]]> By: Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7107 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:30:04 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=2834#comment-7107 In reply to Mike D.

I agree 100% with you Mike. We’ve refreshed a number of closets over the past few years only to return months later and find them in complete shambles.

]]> By: Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7106 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:28:49 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=2834#comment-7106 In reply to Kev Burke.

Very nice pictures Kev!!!

]]> By: Mike D https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-6898 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:29:49 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=2834#comment-6898 yup…we embarked on a similar effort about 5 years ago and our many of our closets looked that nice and we realized all the benefits you list. now a lot of them look almost as ugly as they did before… so words of advice to anybody out there listening: you must MILITANTLY POLICE AND ENFORCE your closets, especially if they are shared real estate with relatively poor physical access controls. too many people running helpdesk tickets, performing desktop location moves-add-changes etc etc leads to connections from the bottom patch panel snaking up the front side to a switch port that happened to be open in the top switch. before you know it, you have a rat’s nest again and the hours of effort you put in are shot to hell.

]]> By: Kev Burke https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2012/07/wiring-closets-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-6887 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:57:09 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=2834#comment-6887 Hoping to get onto the “Good” list with these pictures!

http://www.kevin-burke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/P7170864.jpg
http://www.kevin-burke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/P7170865.jpg
http://www.kevin-burke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/P7170866.jpg

Cheers

Kev.

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