May 30, 2003
Fixing Ugly II
In Fixing Ugly I posted the tenative plans to clean up the TE closet:
"** Place existing hub on floor.
"** Add a Swing Gate (grey-blue)
"** Add cat-5 patch panels (yellow) and re-terminate existing cat-5 wiring.
"** optional: Add cat-3 patch to a terminal block.
"** Add Cisco Switches (green)"
Didn't mention I had to remove the KTS equipment, which I did by converting all (both) of the remaining telephones from 6-button sets to standard 2-line sets, given that they only had two lines on each.
The cables wouldn't allow the hub to move more than a foot or so from where it sat on the shelf. I had it sitting on boxes while I mounted the swing gate. As you can see, it is already looking a lot cleaner than that shelf sitting between KTS equipment. The fibers are connected, the routing should be opened up later today and I should have intra/internet connectivity by about 10 am. Next week I have to migrate all of the users over to the new LAN as the old is scheduled to die on the 6th.
So the cat-5 patch will have to wait a bit as that involves identifying exactly which floor location goes to which cable which goes to which port, and then cutting, reterminating, patching and labeling each move. That will take a gob of time.