So this was a few years ago, around 2019. At my previous job we had several IDFs on multiple floors that were an absolute mess. Cables ran from both sides blocking things like the fan module or power supplies. No color coding or any sort of semblance in the rack. My coworker and I pulled every single cable out, replaced the old 4500 with 2 stacks of 9300s and rewired everything. We did this over the course of a weekend and had everything ready for Monday morning. The bottom stack of 9300's are actually mounted upside down so the cables flow the opposite way and do not cover the fiber module. A bit unorthodox I know, but it worked really well in this case. A few things that make this more manageable was the fact that floor jacks were numbered to the corresponding switch (think floor jack 4-23 goes to switch 4 port 23) and the racks were designed with cable management in mind. Wish I had a pic without the cable covers on but regardless it turned out nice in the end.

I have a complete mess on my hands at my current job. Multiple Datacenters, IDFs, MDFs, etc all looking like a tornado came through. I'll post pics on those in due time

Wiring job done by an MSP we hired a few years back. This is one of the projects that my director and I wanted to tackle at some point but this looks impossible.

Edit: thanks for all the replies y'all! I'm pretty new on my career and never actually got to mess with anything on the servers so this gives me hope

Found a bad section. Had to peel it back prep and splice that one count back in. Pairs had shiners or broken insulation. Something to kill time on before winter hits

This is our office’s wifi closet. We have 1 landline plus starlink. Everything else is archeological.

A couple of our IDF cleanups I did after I got to my new job. Nothing crazy, just thought I'd share.

Is it as bad as I think it is? Closet at work where the internet lives

Would be careful appointing Datel in the UK.

Thought y’all would appreciate this 🤩

A big mess.

Halloween came early this year , spooky ahh lil IDF

Smh

A door can at a computer company that rhymes with sell…. Asked the PM IF he was serious and I got a chuckle in return. “Just throw the new door on a board and close it”.

It's far from perfect but at least you can find something now

In an office basement storage area. Emitting a buzzing sound. I’ve never seen so many wires in my life. Not a fire hazard right?

I guess he said fuck a fire alarm tie in I’ll just kill the power in case of a fire…