I work for a large hospital (20K+ staff). I recently completed a network replacement project in our adult inpatient building. The closets were a disaster, with some where'd you look and go hey there's the chassis behind all those cables. With only a 4 hour change window it was difficult to replace all of the connections with appropriate length cables but when we finished they looked amazing. Butterfly on some chassis (where we could) or funneled all in from the cable management side on the corresponding blade to make replacement of a failed line card quick and painless. Velcro to hold the cables in place. As with any upgrade you have the potential to miss some connections so you can imagine my face when I walked into a closet and good old device support has already started running cables straight up from the below the 10 slot chassis (some patch panels are below where we had to rack the chassis) up to the 2nd blade. For those that do depreciated network replacement of the hardware, do you take the time to cable in a tidy manner? Does your staff who has access to the comm closet follow good cable management practices? It would be great if we had like an activation team where only a select few individuals had access to the comm closet but that isn't the case.
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