[jan-jaap]

An update to my attempts to rewire my computer room.

To recap: I've got some ~ 25 systems, and I want them to be usable, which means they need to be wired. As in: power, serial and ethernet. Several systems have either FDDI or FC or both so I need a good amount of fiber as well. The scale of this setup means I have a lot of "supporting" equipment (ethernet switches, FC switches, console server, etc etc), which in turn means I have a 19" rack to house all of that. Finally, I'm not cutting corners by hiding little (?) ethernet switches behind systems -- <I>everything</I> terminates at the 19" rack. I realized in 2012 already (when I had this annex constructed) that the cable trunks would be the size of my forearm, so I decided I wanted cable gutters under the floor in order to keep things tidy.

I have since put in ethernet and serial cable in. Now it's time for the fibers. To give you an idea about the scale of this job, this is my supply of fibers and most of them will be used. I need 14 FDDI and 18 FC connections, but since all fibers terminate at a patch panel, I need 64 lengths of fiber. Y'all know the size of an Indigo2

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NB: I see there's still a limit of 1 inlined photo per post, so I'll format this 'tweet blog' style, by replying to myself. Also, the flash of my Nikon kept reverting to manual operation so some of these photos are a little dark. Hope you don't mind.