Extreme Wiring Closet Makeover!

IT wiring closets are places nobody - except the Geeks *cough IT staff go. In reality, they're the nerve center of the physical network that enables computers in an office to talk to each other and provide the services everyone depends on to get their work done. You would expect such an important place would be kept in order and meticulously maintained. Unfortunately, they are places where wiring connections are done quickly since up time is important and rerouting a misplaced cable can mean disconnecting an important network device. Unfortunately wiring closets can end up looking like this:

Time for a Makeover!

Yes, it's embarrassing, but it happens (what does your garage look like right now?) and when it does, you need to just bite the bullet and shut down the entire network and do a wiring make over. What? shut everything down? Yes, disconnecting those cables means the network is either not accessible or the serves which constantly communicate stop talking and need to re sync when reconnected. The TWR IT/IS team decided to kick everyone off at 5pm and redo the cabling. The result was dramatic!

Okay, to some it may still look like a mess of wires, but to us in IT it's a big improvement. What do you think? Now, to tackle that garage.....