This was a fun and different project for me. I have a feeling I'll be doing a lot more of these in the future and it was a fantastic learning experience for me.
A simple job today running a new network drop in a storefront. What I encounter --in the wild-- is an IDC patch panel done right! Some tips on keeping the belly full and basic cable running stuff t...
An unusual job where the network / telco equipment was placed in a rather high traffic area for both the customer and their patients. I had to perform several revisions to accommodate this includin...
Holy cow this turned out to be a long video! I will seriously be shocked to see if anyone manages to stay awake through all 2 hours. I was thinking of breaking it into parts but my wife talked me ...
Looking back, this solution seems so obvious but I just think it took many years of dealing with trying to hide excess cable, manage slack, and even custom cable lengths per port, until I finally a...
Showing some of the lessons learned that I've gone through dealing with patch panels over the years. I've pretty much arrived at what I think is the best solution (if you're starting from scratch).
Mind you, this is Southern California so the weather doesn't get TOO bad, but a lot of the points are common throughout the land: make sure it's well sealed / insulated, add your drip loops, etc.
Working this install today made me think of a good brief topic to shoot regarding some tips involving cabling around rackmounted equipment. Hope you all learn something!
I ran into some additional issues with this project I wanted to share with you all briefly. I think it highlights some of the advantages of how I terminate 1U patch panels (when space allows).
*** NOTE *** I know that the username / password for the Ubiquiti CloudKey is visible in the video. It's ok... It's also ok that I show the phone number towards the end. This is an advertised numbe...
I recently retired my good old IBM Thinkpad X41 tablet laptop and decided to experiment with Windows 8. The claim had been that the system requirements were even lower than Windows 7 and I wanted t...
This was an interesting problem to solve. I needed to run fiber to both sides of an equipment rack with just one vertical duct. I devised a solution by fabricating a unique way to convey fibers and...
This was an interesting clean-up job. Not only were there sharp right angles in the fiber duct but much of the slack was taken up vertically. This eventually slid down the vertical trough and poole...
This was a re-work of a bay of fiber distribution panels that were previously either unprotected or poorly protected. I tried several possible fixes before arriving at my final solution. I hope you...
This was a complete overhaul of an existing fiber ducting system at a remote site. It involved moving existing fibers from old to new, larger troughs, combing out the tangled mess, taking up the sl...
Here's a quick fix I did on a fiber distribution panel that didn't properly protect the fibers running to the back of the panel. It isn't uncommon to see situations like this in remote sites where ...
This was a fiber optic cable duct rework that was needed due to the new fibers being added at a Remote Service Unit (RSU) for a local telco. Many RSU's have sub-par workmanship due to their distanc...